Okanagan College Library

							                                Okanagan College Library - Penticton
                              History 221 (The United States since 1865)


Voyager Online Catalogue
      Where?
       Located on the OC Library web page http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/library
      What?
       List of OC Library books, videos and other materials
      How?
       Search by keyword, subject browse, author or title
       Request titles held in other Okanagan College campus libraries
       Search UBCO Catalogue and ask Library staff to help you request titles

Reference Materials

Oxford Reference Online               Library Webpage > Research > Online Reference Sources
Dictionary of World History [print]                                            Ref D 9 .D53
Dictionary of Historic Documents [print]                                       Ref D 9 .K63
Encyclopedia of American History [print]                                    Ref E 174.5 .E52
Atlas of American History         [print]                                  Ref G 1201 .S1 F4
Dictionary of American History [print]                                        Ref E 174 .P87
Readers Companion to American History [print]                                 Ref E 174 .R43

Indexing and Abstracting Databases

Library Webpage > Find Articles > Humanities Online Resources
Tip! For off-campus access to Library’s Databases & Online Reference Sources, at prompt enter
current OC student id number and your last/family name.

American History and Life combined search with Historical Abstracts
AHL: USA and Canadian History (prehistory to the present). 1964-
HA: World History (1450 AD to present, excluding United States and Canada) 1954-
Citations and abstracts for more than 2,000 scholarly journals, as well as many dissertations and book
reviews. Where available will link to full-text in other databases such as EBSCO, JSTOR…
Select PDF format articles
Humanities Index - 400 journal titles; 1983- Literature, philosophy, history and other scholarly articles.
Select PDF format articles
Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] All subjects, 4500+ scholarly and popular journals, over 3,600 in
full-text; 1965- Select PDF format

Full Text Databases
JSTOR
All Subjects. Full-text access to back issues journal articles. PDF format.
Project MUSE
All Subjects. Full-text access to back issues journal articles. PDF format.
Tip! Use American History-Historical Abstracts and Humanities Index to locate articles in JSTOR
and Project MUSE.


Citation Style Guide
University of Chicago Documentation Style. Okanagan College Library                          Lib web page &
                                                          Print copies in Library… to be released mid-January
For a full source for this style, with examples see:
A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Rampolla                                            Ref D 13 .R295
                                                                                [also circulating collection]



                                                                                         MWard January 2007