World War I

• The Libraries' book collection includes works that offer comprehensive treatments of historical topics.
  Use PILOT, our online catalog to find books in our collection as well as links to the full-text of electronic
  reserve items and other valuable information on the Internet.
• To search the catalogs of other Pennsylvania Libraries, and to borrow from them directly, search PALCI 
   and  log in using your 16-digit I-card number.)
• Worldcat-search the OCLC Database of paper and electronic titles. Books located through this database
   can generally be acquired through Interlibrary Loan.
• The Center for Research Libraries houses materials rarely held in U.S. libraries and may provide access
   to primary sources useful for reference. Holdings are available for long term loan to IUP patrons.
   http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu.  Click here for their subject brochures. Items not in our collection can
   be borrowed online through Interlibrary Loan.
• Tips for searching online catalogs:
  Many library catalogs and other databases allow keyword searching, but searchers may wish to use
  advanced search methods--including searching by combining multiple terms or limiting results to specific
  fields (author, title, subject). Using subject headings is also a way to limit results. Appropriate subject
  headings include:
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918--Women
  • World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain.
  • World War, 1914-1918--Participation, African American.

• University of Pennsylvania On-Line Books Page
• ProQuest Digital Dissertations-- Dissertation Abstracts and full text for all digital dissertations from 1997 to present. The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester.

Scholarly and popular magazines and newspapers offer concise and timely treatment of  many topics of
historical interest. IUP patrons can access large collections of such information through the journal
aggregators.   (To gain access from home,  use your 16 digit I-card number.)

• EBSCOhost--provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
  access to thousands more.
• Gale/Infotrac-provides access to the full-text of over one thousand periodicals and bibliographic
  access to thousands more.

• Project MUSE -- provides more than 200 full-text online scholarly journals from academic presses
   covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies,
   education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
• JSTOR-- Online archives of over 125 journals in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian
  Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy,
  Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. JSTOR is designed specifically for
  archiving journals, so it does not include the most recent 2-5 years of each title.

Searching for Specific Journal Titles

• Use IUP Libraries Electronic Journals Search to check if an electronic journal is available through
  one of our databases.
• Use JAKE--to determine if a journal is available in full-text from one of our electronic journal
  collections or to determine where it is indexed.

Primary Sources

     Contemporary Indexes--indexes of

• The Times (London)                      Call Number: [INDEX] AI 21.T46
•  New York Times                           Call Number: [INDEX] AI 21.N45
• Readers' Guide to
•       Periodical Literature.               Call Number  [INDEX] AI3 .R4

• Newspapers for Historical Research at Stapleton Libraries
• IUP Holdings of Newspapers on Microfilm by Title
• Historical New York Times--full-text and full-image articles from 1851-2000 for The New York Times.

Government Information

• Government Information in the Study of History
• American Memory --American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials
  relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million
  digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

• America:  History and Life-- coverage of historical literature of the United States and Canada
  from prehistory to the present. 
• Historical Abstracts--historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding
  the United States and Canada)
• Other online databases--many other databases are available from the Library's
  webpage under Databases. 

Useful sites:

• World War I Document Archive -Brigham Young University page provides links to primary
  source documents and images from the war.
• World War I information about World War I and other wars involving America.
• World War One--The Great War--The Western Front  annotated webliography of WWI with
  active links to many informational web pages. Unfortunately some of the links are outdated.
• World War I -- Trenches on the Web- A multi-layered source with links to primary sources, images, first-hand accounts, all well organized and easily accessible.
• Wartime Journal commercial site there is quite a bit of primary source material about WWI here.
  There are some excellent first-person articles and some great photographs from the war.

Citing What You Have Found:

• Turabian Citation Guide
• Chicago Citation Guide
• EasyBib online bibliography maker.