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Victoria's Secret:
a brief guide to resources
Using the Catalog to locate materials
INNOPAC is the libraries' catalog. It lists books, newspapers, journals, audio-visual materials, databases, internet resources, maps, and recordings which are available through the Grinnell College Libraries.
For information about how to search the catalog effectively see http://cat.lib.grinnell.edu/search/X#
Keyword and subject searching
Keyword searching allows you to select your own terms to describe your topic. Subject heading (controlled vocabulary) searching relies on assigned terms chosen by experts to describe your topic. Keyword and subject heading searches do not generate the same results and both are useful and often necessary to find the best information for your topic.
For more information about using keywords and subject headings, see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/subjectkeywords.html
Boolean Searching
In order to perform searches well, you need to know how to do a Boolean Search. For a review of Boolean Searching, see http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/research/InstructionGuides/booleanmodule.html
Bibliographies
Bibliographies are essential research tools for scholars. Always check the footnotes and bibliography in your readings. This is how scholars identify primary source materials, secondary resources, and key authors. Separately published bibliographies, often with annotations, can provide a good starting point for any research project. Specialized bibliographies also provide a means to identify archival and manuscript resources which may be available in microform or on the internet.
AHA Guide to Historical Literature (Oxford UP, 1995) Vol. 1 section 24. R.K. Webb, Britain and Ireland since 1760. (Ref. D20 .A43x 1995)
Althoz, Joseph Lewis. Victorian England 1837-1901 (Z 2019 .Z56)
Loades, David, ed. Reader's Guide to British History (Ref. DA34.R43 2003)
Indexes to 19th century periodicals
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Index Alcove)
covers journal articles appearing between 1802 and 1906. A cumulative author index is published separately.
Houghton, Walter Edwards. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. (Index Alcove)
Lists contents of each issue of major 19th century journals
Nineteenth Century Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (Index Alcove) indexes articles appearing in major journals from 1890-1922.
Periodical Contents Index (PCI) is a retrospective index to articles included in journals in the social sciences and humanities. It indexes each journal from its first issue, in some dates back to the 1770s, to the late 1990s.
Key Nineteenth Century British Periodicals available in Burling Library
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1839-1905)
Edinburgh Review (1802-1929)
Quarterly Review (1809 -1867)
Fortnightly Review (1866, 1876-1934)
Nineteenth Century (1877-1900)
Contemporary Review (1866, 1869, 1871-)
Indexes to Journal Articles and Scholarly Resources
Humanities International Complete: Covers journals as well as books and reference sources in the humanities, including history.
Social Sciences Abstracts covers general English-language journals in history, political science economics, sociology and psychology.
Historical Abstracts is the scholarly index for history excluding North America. Journal articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of history (political, cultural, intellectual, etc.) are included.
JSTOR is a collection of full-text articles from major journals published in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and some sciences. The most current issues of journals are not included.
World Cat is an international cataloging database of books, periodicals, manuscripts, web sties and other materials held by public, academic, government, and private libraries around the word. It currently includes over 52,000,000 items.
Reference Sources
Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain (DA 530 .C76 2004)
Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era (Ref. DA550 .E527 2004)
Roberts, Adam C. Victorian Culture and Society: the essential glossary (Ref DA550 .R59 2003)
Encyclopedia of Romanticism; culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s (Ref DA529 .E53 1992)
Victorian Britain: an encyclopedia (Ref DA550 .V53 1988)
Handbook of British Chronology (Ref. DA 34.P6 1986)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ref. DA 28 .O95 2004)
Dictionary of National Biography Online
(http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed/)
Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Ref. CG 5 .D52)
Web Resources
Victorian Web
(http://www.victorianweb.org/)
Web of English History: the Peel Web
(http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/peelhome.htm)
WWW-VL: History of the United Kingdom
(http://vlib.iue.it/history/europe/uk/uk.html)
Internet Library of Early Journals
(http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
Victorian Resources Online: an annotated list of scholarly websites
(http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~bpn2f/victorian/bibliog.html)
Dictionary of National Biography Online
(http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed/)
Victorian London
(http://www.victorianlondon.org/)
Images
ArtStor
http://www.artstor.org/info/
This is a growing collection of images from a number of sources, including Grinnell College.
Sunsite
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
This is from Berkeley and lists a number of good image collections on the web.
Google Images
http://www.google.com/
This is the Google search engine for images.
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/iarchives.html
From Boston University Libraries, this is has a good selection under “metasitesâ€
Digital Librarian
http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html
An amazing list of images sources. Alphabetically arranged, it is a bit clunky, but really has some good sites.
Interlibrary Loan
You may request materials through Interlibrary Loan simply by completing the form available from the main menu of the catalog. You will be asked to enter your name and ID number; then you may request materials. Be sure all information is correct and complete. Plan ahead, since it may take two weeks to receive material.
If you have any questions, please contact me at rod@grinnell.edu, or consult any of the other Reference Librarians .
Created by: Catherine Rod on February 1, 2005
Last updated: September 5, 2005
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