Library Guides/ Modern and Contemporary History 1800 AD - Present

Welcome

On this page you find an overview of the most important resources in the fields of Modern and Contemporary History. This is the starting point for doing research for bachelors and masters in Modern and Contemporary History.

For Ancient, Medieval and Early-Modern History you can use the specialized libguides for those periods.

Handbooks

Oxford Handbooks Online
66 Oxford Handbooks in the field of history.

Cambridge Histories Online
Authoritative handbook collection for histories of many countries (e.g. Britain, Europe, US, Middle East, Far East, Latin America.
CHO is a digital collection of 250+ titles published since 1960 as part of the Cambridge Histories series. The collection presents an authoritative reference compendium for histories of many countries (e.g. Britain, Europe, US, Middle East, Far East, Latin America).

Reference

Oxford Reference Online
A searchable collection of online reference books including specialised encyclopaedias, dictionaries and handbooks.
A searchable collection of online reference books including specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks. Select from appropriate subject headings, for example, Political Science and Social Sciences.

Websites

European Holocaust research infrastructure
The aim of this project is to bring together and connect museums, libraries, archives and institutions that hold important and/or original material related to Jewish history, culture and life in Europe.
Slavernijverleden / Nationaal Archief
Archives, scans and search tools about the history of slavery.

Key bibliographies for modern and contemporary history

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada)
from 1450 to the present.
America: history & life
Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada,
from prehistory to the present.

More bibliographic resources

Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Bibliographic full-text resource on international affairs
Google Scholar
A Google search engine that searches for scholarly literature.
Covers articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.C
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Key bibliography in the social sciences.
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.
Web of Science (incl. Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI))

SmartCat

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Catalogue University of Groningen Library and beyond...
SmartCat is a service for locating literature, containing all printed and electronic works owned by the libraries of the University of Groningen, libraries in the Netherlands and worldwide

Google Search

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For direct access to full text documents:
Click on Settings - Library links : choose University of Groningen options + Open Worldcat (if not shown, type 'Groningen'). Links to full text (if available) will be shown in your search results.

Citing a publication found in Google Scholar?
Click on Settings - Search result - Bibliography manager, choose e.g. Endnote
Covers articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.C
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Google Books is een zoekservice van Google Inc. die zoek in de full text van boeken die door Google zijn gescand, via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) op tekst doorzoekbaar zijn gemaakt en opgenomen in de digitale database van Google Books. De database bevat boeken die vrij van rechten zijn en gratis te raadplegen zijn, maar ook boeken van uitgevers waarvan alleen gedeelten te zien zijn.