Post on 05-Jul-2015
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History Study Centre Rob Newman and Jennifer Jackson
Quick Search box now on every page
Specialised search and browse screens for five content types.
Five content types
• Study Units bring together the most relevant content on over 500 important topics.
• Find historical newspaper articles, official documents, speech transcripts and many more primary source texts using Historical Documents.
• Maps & Reference includes encyclopedias and historical dictionaries; topic overviews; and thousands of historical maps, including animated maps.
• Multimedia searches thousands of historical images plus video clips and selected Web links.
• Search and browse issues from 60 history journals.
• Study Units bring together essential information and rare documents, and encourage further research.
• Each Study Unit contains between 30-120 articles, documents and images selected for their relevance to the topic.
• Study Units cover over 500 topics, from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.
Study Units
Search for Study Units by subject keyword
• Primary sources are essential to historical study at all levels.
• Thousands of texts from a wide range of sources.
• Most documents include explanatory commentary.
• Additional page-image documents are included in Study Units, some digitised for the first time.
Historical Documents
Check Study Units for many more page image primary source documents.
• A library of over fifty respected reference volumes, including encyclopaedias, historical atlases and historiographical guides, plus 79 topic overviews.
• All volumes can be browsed through Tables of Contents.
• Maps can be easily scrolled and zoomed, or downloaded in PDF format.
Maps & Reference
• Search an archive of thousands of historical images, from early woodcuts to modern news photography.
• View hundreds of clips from the WPA Film Library, some dating back to the end of the nineteenth century.
• Links to over 2,000 editorially assured history resources on the Web.
• All images and video clips are given detailed captions which places them in historical context and aids searching.
Multimedia
• Search and browse thousands of full text articles from 60 journals.
• Regularly updated with new issues.• Titles include History Today, English
Historical Review and Historian.• Additional selected articles, including
backfile articles, are included in appropriate Study Units.
Journals
Comprehensive- Coverage of all eras back to ancient times- Global coverage including Atlas of African
History, Dictionary of Modern Arab History, c. 50 Study Units on non-Western history
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Reliable- Reference works from respected
publishers such as Penguin, Taylor & Francis
- In-house historical expertise used for selection and captioning
- Journals from scholarly publishers and quality commercial publishers
History Study Centre
Selective- Only the most appropriate content is
included- Expert editorial mediation, selecting
material for Study Units, makes it easier to find relevant content on a topic
History Study Centre
• International Coverage• Comprehensive coverage makes HSC
relevant to Asian, African, Australian history etc – not just US/UK
• Strong coverage of American history is also important around the world
History Study Centre
• Comprehensive• Reliable• Selective
An authoritative history resource which is as easy to use as Google
History Study Centre