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Citation Tools 
Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
Davis Library Reference Desk D5 .M55 2007
Carolina BLU Campus Delivery Service 
Through the Carolina BLU Delivery Service, you can request to have books and articles available at any of the UNC-CH campus libraries, as well as books and articles requested through interlibrary loan, delivered to the campus library most convenient to you.
Reference Sources
Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750
Online and Davis Library HC240 .E58 2000
European Economic History: From Mercantilism to Maastricht and Beyond
Davis Library HC240 .H36 2001 (2 copies)
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Online and Davis Library Reference HC15 .O94 2003 (5 vols.)
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Davis Library Reference D114 .D5 1982 (14 vols.) Also in Art and UL.
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Online
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Davis Library Reference CB361 .E52 1999 (6 vols.)
Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
Davis Library Reference D209 .E97 2004 (6 vols.)
Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire
Davis Library Reference D299 .E735 2006 (5 vols.)
Catalog search tip: (encyclopedia or encyclopedias) and topic word.
Finding academic journal articles 
Example of an academic journal article
Historical Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journals covering non-U.S. history since 1450.
International Medieval Bibliography
Indexes periodicals, books, essay collections, etc. covering the European Middle Ages, 450-1500 C.E.
ITER
Indexes more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
EconLit
Comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature.
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Finding Books 
Catalog Search Tips
Searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by either Keywords or Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Start with a Keyword search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the LC subject headings given to those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies. Here's some sample searches.
- Keyword Search: medieval "ice age"
- LC Subject Heading: "Climatic changes--Europe--History."
- LC Subject Heading: "Climatic changes--Social aspects--Europe."
- Keyword Search: usury "Catholic Church"
- LC Subject Heading: "Usury--Religious aspects--Catholic Church."
- LC Subject Heading: "Church and social problems--Catholic Church."
- Keyword Search: "Near East" Europe trade
- LC Subject Heading: "Middle East--Commerce--Europe."
- Keyword Search: urbanization bibliography
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Primary Sources -- Guides
Finding Primary Source Documents
The Information-Literate Historian: a Guide to Research for History Students. Chap. 6.
Davis Reference D16.2 .P71 2007
ArchiveGrid
Online access to descriptions of archival collections.
Primary Sources -- Local
Catalog search tips:
- Use terms such as "personal narratives," memoirs, letters, correspondence, diaries, records, archives, interviews, and sources.
- Search names of persons or organizations as Authors. For example: Thomas Aquinas
- Use the term, microfilm: colonization microfilm
Selected e-book collections.
- Early English Books Online, 1475-1700
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Past Masters
Searchable texts from the works of major philosophers.
News
- News Databases
Find several full-text historical newspapers - Microforms Collection
Lists newspapers held in Davis Microforms.
Primary Sources -- Web
EuroDocs
European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
WWW-VL HISTORY CENTRAL CATALOGUE
Internet History Sourcesbooks Project
Google Book Search and
Internet Archive
Items published pre-1923 are public domain.
Statistics
International Historical Statistics. Europe, 1750-2005
Davis Library Reference HA1107 .M5 2007
Google Scholar
