The items in this bibliography can help you find information on your research topic. Many are available electronically through local library networks, the campus network or on the World Wide Web. Databases marked UW Only require that you access these from computers on campus or from home using UWICK or the libraries proxy server.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates which can then be used as search terms for finding abritional information. More importantly, because encyclopedias often cover the major issues surrounding the subect, they can help you narrow your research from a broad “who, what, where, when” topic to a “how or why” question. In abrition many encyclopedia articles include short bibliographies that will lead you to the major works on the topic.
- Britannica Online [UW Only
Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.- Encyclopedia of American Social History
Reference, Undergraduate
HN57 .E58 1993- Encylopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century
Reference
E740.7 .E53 1996- Encyclopedia of American agricultural history
Undergraduate Stackes
S441 .S36- Encyclopedia of rural America: the land and people
Reference
E169.12 .E5 1997- Encyclopedia of the American West
Reference, Undergraduate
F591 .E485 1996
Use the following databases to locate books in the UW Libraries and in other libraries around the region, nation and world. Books unavailable at the UW can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
- UW Libraries Catalog
A listing of the books, journal subscriptions and other material available at the University of Washington Libraries.- Cascade
A listing of the books, journal subscriptions and other material available in the 6 public university library systems in Washington state. Books can be requested online and sent to the UW.- OCLC WorldCat [UW only]
A listing of books, journal subscriptions and other material available in hundreds of major libraries in the U.S. and abroad.- OhioLINK
Use OhioLink to access chapters of recent books, use the "Words" search option.
Use indexes/abstracts/bibliographies to find articles (and sometimes books, dissertations, etc.) on a topic. Most indexes are arranged by subject or include a subject index. Indexes/abstracts are ongoing publications; bibliographies tend to be one volume and are more narrowly focused on a specific topic. Some are available electronically through the web, others are available on computers in the library while some are in print. There are indexes/bibliographies covering all sorts of subjects, use those which best fit your research topic.Once you identify articles you need make sure you have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages and year), then look in the UW Libraries Catalog for the journal name (do a title search for the journal name to see if the UW subscribes) to see if and where the journal is kept (library location and call number).
Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
General Indexes
- Academic (Lexis-Nexis) Universe [UW only]
Full text database of news, legal and business information. Sources include major U.S. and international English-language papers, magazines, wire services and transcripts. Use only for topics dealing with contemporary (post 1985) issues such as famine situation in North Korea.- Expanded Academic Index [UW only]
General index to magazine and journal articles in all subjects, includes some full-text.- Research Library [UW only]
General index to magazine and journal articles in all subjects, includes some full-text.Specialized Indexes
- Agricola [UW only]
Contains bibliographic records of technical reports, journal articles and book chapters acquired by the National Agricutural Library in the agricul type="square"tural and related sciences dating from 1970. Earlier years available in print and microfiche in the Natural Sciences and Forestry Libraries: Bibliography of Agriculture [630 A-Un31bi and MB-104 ]- America History & Life [UW only]
Major index to articles in U.S. and Canadian history. Also includes selected coverage of dissertations and books.- GeoBase [UW only]
Index to articles in the field of geography including international development.- Historical Abstracts [UW only]
Major index to articles in world history from the period 1450 on.- History of Science and Technology [UW only]
Index to articles and books in the history of science and medicine. Earlier years available in print in the Natural Sciences Reference (ground floor Allen South): ISIS Current Bibliography of the History of Science And Its Cultural Influences and ISIS Cumulative Bibliography [Z7405.H6 I2]- PAIS International [UW only]
Covers social and public policy literature from over 1,400 periodicals and thousands of government documents, books, and other sources from 1972 onward. Printed version goes back to 1915 and is kept in the Suzzallo Reference index area [Z7163.P9].- World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts
Suzzallo Reference HD1401 .W6
Index to articles, books and reports dealing with agricultural economics and rural sociology. 1960-
The Government Publications division is located on the first floor of Suzzallo Library. The division has collections for local, state, federal and international organizations plus some foreign material. The division is the best place in the libraries to find help in locating and using government publications.The resources listed here are just some of web sites and research tools useful for locating government publications. A good site for locating governmental web sites is the University of Michigan's Government Resources on the Web. A good site for locating statistical information by governments is OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the WWW.
- Access UN [UW only]
Index to United Nations publications from 1991 to the present. Includes links to documents available on the web. Also see UNESDOC, an index to full-text documents produced by UNESCO.- Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Homepage of the FAO, an UN organization. The page includes links to country profiles and reports such as the State of Food and Agriculture. Also see the World Food Programme.- MarciveWeb: Catalog of U.S. Government Publications [UW only]
Catalog of federal documents from July 1976 to the present. Earlier years available in print in the Government Publications section (first floor Suzzallo): Monthly Catalog, 1895 - [328.73 Un37m] and Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1900-1971 [Z1223 .A18 index 1900/71, additional copy in the Forestry Library]- Statistical Universe [UW only]
Large index of statistics from federal, state, international, and organizational sources. Includes American Statistics Index (1973+), Statistical Reference Index (1980+), and Index to International Statistics (1983+), plus many links to full text and citations to related microform collections available at the UW.- Agricultural Experiment Stations - Reports and Bulletins
Library location and call no. varies
Reports from various states dating back to the late 19th century dealing with all aspects of agriculture. Indexed in Agricola and its predecessors.- Agricultural Statistics
Government Publications [A 1.47]
Annual compilation of statistics dealing primarily with agricultural production dating back to 1936.- Census of Agriculture
Government Publications [317.3 Un31ag]
Comprehensive census of agricuture compiled by the U.S. government every five years since 1925. Earlier years, 1840-1920 are included in the Census of Population also in Government Publications. Useful for following trends in crops, farm size, etc.- Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970
Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate Reference [HA202 .H57 1989]
2 volume set of statistics covering U.S. history including population, GDP, production, etc.
Search the UW Libraries Catalog using the keywords that will retrieve published diaries. [Note that some of the works will deal with other countries]
- American diaries : an annotated bibliography of published American diaries and journals
Suzzallo Reference [Z5305.U5 A74 1983]
2 volume bibliography of published diaries originating from 1492-1980. Includes a subject index which helps identify those diaries dealing with farm life.- American Women's Diaries
Microforms Newspapers [A8137]
Microfilm collection of women's diaries, three segments: New England, Southern and Western women. Diaries are individually listed in the UW Libraries Catalog. Many of the Southern and Western diaries deal with rural life.
- America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
More than 55,000 photographs depicting "rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl." Part of American Memory.- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
"Collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations." Part of American Memory.- Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Cul type="square"ture in Northern Nevada 1945-1982
"This collection presents 41 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings that tell the story of life and work on the Ninety-Six Ranch and of its cowboys, known in the region as buckaroos." Part of American Memory.- California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
"190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts." Part of American Memory.- Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
"The Core Historical Literature of Agricuture is a representative electronic full-text collection of agricultural texts published during the period 1850-1950. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crop protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science." Produced by the Mann Library at Cornell University.- Northern Great Plain: Photographs from the Hultstrand and Pazandak collections
"900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children that were educated in them." Part of American Memory.- Interpreting the Irish Famine
Extensive site created by a Liz Szabo, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, which includes numerous primary sources including articles from Irish, American and British newspapers plus a bibliography of print and internet resources. Also see Irish Views of the Famine and Views of the Famine.- Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, 1820-1910
Collection of 138 volumes including "first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works." Part of American Memory.- Voices from the Dust Bowl
"Online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera." Part of American Memory.- New Deal Network
A collaborative effort of the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the FDR Presidential Library, Marist College and IBM that seeks to "document the social and cutural legacy of the New Deal era." Includes full-text documents and photographs. Includes some documents dealing with the Agricultural Adjustment Agency and the Farm Security Administration.
Photograph: Beanfield, 1967. From American Memory collection, Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs 1855-1991.
5 November 2001
Patty Carey - pcarey@u.washington.edu
Theresa Mudrock
- mudrock@u.washington.edu
