Library Guides: History: Getting started

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Welcome to your subject guide which brings together the resources you will need while studying at City.

if you are researching a topic for your assignment, your research project, your dissertation, or your thesis, use the recommended resources listed on this page or browse the list of specialist resources.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals and e-books in the the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
First published in 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of 60,000 men and women who shaped the history of the British Isles and of Britons worldwide, from the ‘earliest times’ to the 21st century.

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Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database providing access to full text articles, reports, conference proceedings and books in nearly every area of academic study. It is updated daily and contains article going back as far as 1887.

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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) includes references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. IBSS focuses mainly on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology.

IBSS is produced by the Library at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary resource which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases. It provides access to research tools like citation reports and cited reference searching.

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