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History

This guide gives an overview of recommended sources for History.

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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.

Large eBook collections only available in 2025

Next to the eBooks already in our collection, the Library temporarily provides access to thousands of eBooks from prominent publishers. Temporary access books will have 'EBA' + the end date mentioned in the 'Notes & License Terms' in our catalogue discovery tool sEURch.

Besides all De Gruyter titles this collection also includes eBooks in History from Amsterdam University Press and, published up to 2022, eBooks from a.o. Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, University of Toronto Press, Edinburgh University Press, and New York University Press.

All Brill eBooks in History available for Erasmus University can also be found in sEURch via this link.

Sources and Skills Literature for History students

Information skills

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!