• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • ARTstor
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • The Grove Dictionary of Art Online
      • The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians Online
      • The Oxford Companion to United States History
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • The Almanac Of American History
      • Dictionary of American History
      • Documents of American History
      • Encyclopedia Of American History
      • Modern America, 1914 To 1945
      • Oxford Companion to Jazz
        
      
      
      
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search:
    
    
    • uses Library of Congress classification system
    • History: America = E - F
      
      
    • United States -- History
    • United States -- History -- 20th Century
    • United States -- History -- 1919-1933
      
      
  • keyWord search in the title, contents, series, etc., e.g.:
    
    
    • Babe Ruth
    • Al Capone
      
    
    
• Author search, e.g.:
  
  
  • Calvin Coolidge
  
  

• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

• Academic Search Premier
  • 4,500+ general and academic journals
  • coverage 1985+
  • mostly full-text
    
    
• JSTOR
  • 440+ scholarly journals
  • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
  • full-text

• WilsonWeb
  • 3,500+ general and academic journals
  • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
  • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
  • 1,750 journals are full-text
    
  
  

• Check journal titles in E-Journal Holdings, the library's list of full-text electronic periodicals
  
  
• For articles not in the library, order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Washington Post (1877-1991)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form
  
  
• New York Times (1851-2004)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• American Memory (Library of Congress)
• BabeRuth.com

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• Hacker Online
  • formatting examples