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General Reference Databases

These databases contain general reference articles, e-books and primary sources in addition to articles from periodicals across multiple disciplines.

History Databases

U.S. History in Context (Gale)
World History in Context (Gale)
World History: The Modern Era (ABC-CLIO)
(1500 CE ~ Present)

Other Databases

A-Z List of All Databases
List of all online databases that our library subscribes to, listed alphabetically by the database name

Periodicals: Journals, Magazines and Newspapers

Historical Newspapers

From Our Databases

Historical New York Times, 1851-2015 (with Index)
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013

The International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013 features the complete archive of the International Herald Tribune from its origins as the European Edition of The New York Herald and later the European Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. The archive ends with the last issue of the International Herald Tribune before its relaunch as the International New York Times.
Newspapers.com
Newspapers.com is provided by a special grant through Ancestry.com. It is only accessible via the SH campus network; it is not accessible from off the network, e.g. from off campus.

From the Web

Primary Sources

Internet History of Science Sourcebook
(from Fordham University)
Oral history of British Science | British Library
Soviet Nuclear History
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Space Race
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Documents on the 20th-century competition for supremacy in spaceflight capacity between the United States and the Soviet Union.
JSTOR | Aerospace Historian (journal)
Coverage: 1965-1988

Off-Site Username and Password List

Database Offsite Password List_March 2021

Useful Websites

Google Patents
Search patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and a few other countries. It's easier to search by inventor names such as LaMarcus Thompson.

Depending on your topic, the following websites can be useful

Computer History Museum
Housing a collection of artifacts related to the history of computing, many transcripts of interviews, documents and photographs are available online. Look under Collections and Exhibits tabs to find out what's available online. Some of these are primary sources.
History Program | American Institute of Physics
PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Electronic Books

Library Offerings
For e-books, go directly to eBook Central to get the most results using full-text searching. Use filtering options on the left of the search results or use Advance Search to narrow down your search using both the Title field and the Keyword field.

Ebook Central/eBrary (ProQuest)
Use your SH email address to log into EBook Central and access over 140,000 titles.

From the Web

Bookshelf - NCBI
Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.
NASA e-Book Archive
Contains free e-Books from NASA, including titles such as "Dressing for Altitude, U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits."

If you need specific books ordered for your project, let a librarian know ASAP! But before you request books, please view a preview through Google Books or Amazon to make sure that the books you are requesting would be useful for your research.

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Featured Books

Histories of Computing by Michael Sean Mahoney; Thomas Haigh
Call Number: 004 MAH
ISBN: 9780674055681
Publication Date: 2011-06-20
The Ethics of Invention by Sheila Jasanoff
Call Number: 174.96 JAS
ISBN: 9780393078992
Publication Date: 2016-08-30
Hellfire Boys: The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World's Deadliest Weapons by Theo Emery
Call Number: 358.3 EME
ISBN: 9780316264082
Publication Date: 2018-11-06

Book Request Form

Is there a book, magazine, or other item you would like to see in the library collection? Let us know!

Citation Tools

NoodleTools
Creating a NoodleTools Account
Citing Database Resources
Create a Hanging Indent in Google Docs (video)
MLA Style Center
Writing resources from the Modern Language Assocation
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Documenting Legal Works in MLA Style - The MLA Style Center