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*History: Secondary Sources
Suggested resources for the broad study of global history, from pre-modern periods to the present.
Gender studies journal articles. Coverage: 1972 and earlier to the present.
Combines Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
Topical bibliographies in the humanities and social sciences. Oxford Bibliography
Oxford Bibliographies offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas. There are at least 50 specific topical bibliographies in each subject area. Each of these features an introduction to the topic. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and are keyword searchable.
Books in the Bates library are accessed from CBBcat, the catalog of the shared collections of Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin libraries. Limiting the search from "Entire CBB Collection" to "Bates" will show what is available here. Books located at Colby or Bowdoin can be obtained by the "CBB Request" button at the top of the page.
Combined catalogs of public and academic libraries across the state of Maine; check here if CBBcat does not have the book you need. Good resource for popular literature.
A union catalog of books and other materials in libraries in the U.S. and around the world. world cat oclc firstsearch first search
Digitized book beyond CBBcat
While many useful and informative books are readily available in the CBB collection, there are many books available online. The links below will go to digitized material.
Books, journals, newspapers, and other print materials scanned by member libraries (including many of the largest research libraries in the US). Coverage: Ca. 1500 to present
Collection is full text searchable. Materials in the public domain are available for reading online. Copyrighted materials are not available in full text, but often indicate page numbers where words occur. Includes many US government documents. hathi trust
Searchable (and frequently downloadable) full text books that are in the public domain. Materials still under copyright can be searched and will provide page numbers and occasionally snippets of text.
