Welcome
This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for American Studies. This is the starting point for your research.
eReference
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The 2000s in AmericaThis comprehensive collection centers on the impact of the 2000s in the United States and Canada. -
An Encyclopedia of American CultureThe areas covered are fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography); performing arts (music, ballet, theatre, film); architecture; literature; and various non-artistic forms of culture (symbolic, material, culinary). -
Encyclopedia of American HistoryAn unparalleled compilation spanning the entire history of America and its people.
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary American CultureThis volume contains over 1,200 alphabetically-arranged entries - spanning 'the American century' from the end of World War II to the present day.
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
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America: history & lifeCovers the history and culture of the United States and Canada,
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American National BiographyOver 19.000 biographies of significant, influential or notorious figures from American history.
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Oxford Bibliographies OnlineWith an extensive section on American Literature
Other useful General bibliographies
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Academic Search PremierMultidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
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Scopus
Very 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. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI))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
Key journals
Collections e-journals
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JSTORFull-text archival access to hundreds of top journals
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Periodical Archive OnlineArchival issues of hundreds of journals in the humanities and the 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 and SupplementThis digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadsheet 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
For direct access to full text documents:
- 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.
Citing a publication found in Google Scholar?
Click on Settings - Search result - Bibliography manager, choose e.g. RefWorks
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.