Library Homepage: Dr. Rebecca Bates History 200 Fall 2023: Websites and Online Books

Website Portals

Voice of the Shuttle
“VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities.” It is a project of the University of California at Santa Barbara that was started in 1994. VoS’s creators consider it a work in progress

Beyond CRAAP: Evaluating Websites

Bare Bones 101
This is a tutorial from the University of South Carolina - Beaufort. Lesson 5 provides practical information for evaluating websites based on their URL.
Identifying Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
The diagram format makes this website easy to use and quick to consult. Please note this page has an example for historians based on the Vietnam Conflict.
Locating Primary Resources
This is UNC-Wilmington online guide to locating primary resources in History. Past students have found this a beneficial aid.
Using Primary Sources on the Web
This websites is from the History Section of Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association. It provides access to a wide variety of primary documents.

Online Books

Many online books are electronic versions of works in the public domain and have been scanned. Remember, there can always be errors due to scanning problems and transcription errors even in the best of online resources.

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. These items are downloadable on to a variety of devices.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
The Hathi Trust Digital Library brings together the immense collections from partner institutions in a digital form. Many works published before 1924 are online in a full text format. You can access these works online but they are not downloadable.
Nineteenth Century in Print – Books
LOC and the University of Michigan provide this full text online collection of some 1,500 books dealing with a wide range of topics. The collection is keyword searchable or you can browse by title, author or subject.
Nineteenth Century in Print – periodicals
This is a joint effort between the LOC and Cornell University that offers access to a variety of import magazines and journals from the 1800s.
Country Studies
Country Studies, they are now being prepared as stand-alone reference aides for all countries in the series, as well as for a number of additional countries of interest. The profiles offer reasonably current country information independent of the existence of a recently published Country Study and will be updated annually or more frequently as events warrant. Note: The month and year in which each profile was created or most recently updated appear after each country name.
Google Books
Google Book Search allows you to search for full text editions of books online in the public domain which were published before 1924. these works are no longer under copyright protection. At times the “partial view” option can assist in making decisions concerning ILL. Google Books help locate publications not accessible to Berea students in other formats. When searching for primary sources from the 19th and 18th centuries, Google Books can prove valuable.