HIST 420 Vietnam War -- Professor Kleiman: Library Session, October 6th, 2021
Citation Tracking
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Google ScholarGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Citation Tracking
- Citation tracking refers to the practice of using the bibliography or reference list of a key article to find other suitable articles, and then to search for more recent articles that cite the key article in their bibliographies or reference lists. There are several databases that allow you to do this; Google Scholar is particularly useful for citation tracking.
- Article Example: "Atrocity, Authenticity and American Exceptional: (Ir)rationalising the Massacre at My Lai"
Links to databases for this class
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America: History & LifeCovers the history of the United States and Canada. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized.
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New York TimesThis site gives us access to the entire historical archive via our subscription.
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Readers' Guide RetrospectiveComprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 - 1982. Reflects the history of 20th century America.
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Alternative Press IndexIndexes 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. Covers 1991 to present.
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HeinOnlineAn ever-expanding database that specializes in offering original PDF copies of full-runs of legal collections. It includes: most major legal periodicals, federal and state statutes, court decisions, attorney general reports and opinions, federal legislative history materials, treaties, foreign & international law material, and numerous specialized legal collections. The text of collections are fully searchable and there are tools to browse or find items by citation.
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