Resources of the Week
Two items for you this week: History--Journals
Source: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, University of Illinois Press, National Academy Press The History Cooperative
OK...so everything here is not free. The Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, the William and Mary Quarterly, and the Western Historical Quarterly are "gated" -- e.g., for access, you must have organizational membership, a subscribing institutional affiliation and/or a paid individual subscription. (You can, however, view tables of contents.) But you will definitely find plenty of quality content that is freely available to everyone, including these journals:
+ Law and History Review ("America's leading legal history journal, encompassing American, English, European, and ancient legal history....")
+ The History Teacher ("...the most widely recognized journal in the United States devoted to the teaching of history in the secondary and higher education classroom...")
+ Common-Place ("Common-place is not a traditional scholarly journal. It differs in content: we range across interests and disciplines, from art history to archaeology, from politics to parlor manners. It differs in tone: we aim to reach a broad audience of the educated public....")
+ Labour/Le Travail ("...a bilingual semi-annual review dedicated to the broad, interdisciplinary study of Canadian labour history...")
+ Journal of World History ("Devoted to historical analysis from a global point of view....")
+ History of Education Quarterly ("Topics span the history of education, both formal and nonformal, including the history of childhood, youth, and the family.")
+ Environmental History ("Insights from history, geography, anthropology, the natural sciences, and many other disciplines are included.")
+ Oregon Historical Quarterly ("...one of the largest state historical society journals in the United States...a recognized and respected source for the history of the Pacific Northwest region...")
+ Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ("...traditional national-level politics, social categories of race, class, ethnicity and gender, cities and regions, comparative transnational contexts, economic and business history, international relations, and every field of scholarly inquiry within its time period...")
+ Indiana Magazine of History ("...documents and investigates the changing culture of Indiana and the Midwest...")
All journals are searchable. A dropdown menu allows you to search all of them simultaneously or choose a title to search individually. Another dropdown menu lets you search by article type -- e.g., articles, reviews, letters to the editor, etc.
Additional resources available here include:
+ "Booker T. Washington Papers Online is a free and fully searchable web tool designed to provide researchers with access to thousands of pages comprising the 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press."
+ Historian's Web Links -- electronic journals, journal consortia, history department web pages, online teaching and research resources, links to archives around the world
+ Historical Map Collections
-- Genetics--Law and Policy--Databases
Source: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) NHGRI Policy and Legislation Database
According to a press release from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this new database "contains links to full-text copies of federal and state laws/statutes; federal legislative materials; and federal administrative and executive materials, including regulations, institutional policies and executive orders. Abstracts are also provided that summarize the government materials in lay language." Topical coverage includes privacy of genetic information/confidentiality; informed consent; insurance and employment discrimination; genetic testing and counseling; and commercialization and patenting.
You can search this database by using dropdown menus to specify content type (e.g., statutes, laws, administrative materials, etc.), topic, and/or source (agency or U.S. state). Use shift/control keys to select multiple criteria. A keyword search option is available, but it searches only document titles. Boolean AND is assumed.
Alternately, you can search geographically, via an interactive U.S. map, which will display all materials in the database that are specific to a particular state or territory.
Notes the NIH press release: "This fall, NHGRI plans to add more categories of content to the database, primarily in the areas of foreign statutes and laws, foreign policy, treaty and international agreements, and policy material from international organizations."
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