Welcome
This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for American Studies that can be a good starting point for your research.
eReference
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American National BiographyBiographies of persons from all eras of American history and culture.
Book Reviews
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New York Review of BooksFull text from volume I issue I (February 1963)
America: history and life. The key resource for American Studies
America: history & life is the leading bibliographic database for the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory up to today. The database contains references to literature from over 1.700 journals. Together, America: history & life and Historical Abstracts cover the history of the entire world. Like Historical Abstracts, this database is hosted by EBSCO and its functionality is exactly the same as that of Historical Abstracts.
Other useful General bibliographies
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Academic Search PremierMultidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
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ScopusVery large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. With over 21,500 titles in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and arts and humanities.
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Web of Science (incl. Arts & Humanities Citation Index)Bibliography and citation index. Searching for citations enables you to locate articles that cite a known publication.
American Studies Journals
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American Studies JournalsOverview of American Studies journals held at the University of Groningen
Overview of American Studies journals worldwide
Collections e-journals
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JSTORFull-text archival access to hundreds of top journals
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Periodicals Archive OnlineArchival issues of hundreds of journals in the humanities and social sciences
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Project MUSEFull-text periodicals (humanities and social sciences)
Early books online
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Evans: Early American Imprints Series I en SupplementThis digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800
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Evans: Early American imprints : TCP Open AccessAll texts are fully searchable.
Please note: Fascimiles and other illustrative material cannot be accessed in the Open Access version of Evans.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)All books published in English from 1475-1700 in facsimile
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Eebo (Early English Books Online) - TCPAll texts are fully searchable. Please note: Fascimiles and other illustrative material cannot be accessed in the Open Access version of Eebo.
Historical Newspapers
Smartcat
GoogleScholar
- Select the first icon (top left)
- Select ‘Settings’
- Select ‘Library links’
- Search for: university groningen
- Tick: University of Groningen Library – Get It! Univ of Groningen (un-tick other options)
You will now be able to see, via the Get it! link, whether a document is available through the RUG.
N.B. If you are working via the University network, these links are automatically selected.
AM Explorer
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Adam Matthew Digital CollectionsCollections of primary sources from the 15th to the 21st century.
DPLA
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DPLAThe Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a portal to the digital collections of libraries, archives and museums in the United States.