This guide gives you an overview of recommended resources for History: reference works to orientate on a particular topic and to find references to literature, scholarly literature databases and search engines, and all kinds of resources containing digital or digitized primary sources.
Listed are both resources to which the Library has subscribed, as well as resources that are available via the National Library of the Netherlands (you can recognize those by the symbol), or are freely available online.
Vers Beton is a journalism platform for inquisitive and critical thinkers from Rotterdam. Its articles focus on the city of Rotterdam and inhabitants, covering the fields of politics, architecture and urban development, art and culture, society and care, and economics and entrepreneurship. It also includes in-depth investigative journalism.
To read the articles: click 'Inloggen' and choose 'Inloggen met SURFconext', via SURFconext you can login with your ERNA-account.
Full-text and full-image access from the first issue in 1877 up to 2008.
Access to the more recent archive and current edition of The Washington Post is provided via several databases (click 'Access online'). For tips on how to search efficiently in those databases, have a look at our News sources LibGuide.
Related databases: The New York Times archive 1851-2019; Wall Street Journal archive 1889-2011
Learn how to search, find and manage scholarly information and data in an efficient way. Visit the library's Information Skills Portfoliol for more online modules!
The University Library supports RefWorks. When you see the RefWorks symbol next to a resource title somewhere in this Guide, you know it is possible to export references from that resource to RefWorks. The Library has created an e-course on how to use RefWorks.
Online version of the 18th edition of ‘The Chicago Manual of Style’ writing and citation guide.
Date range: 2024 (18th edition)