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Bodleian History Faculty Library

Taylor Institution Library (18th C)

1. Single Sign On. Sign on to SOLO, Databases A-Z or your University email and your browser retains the sign on. This allows you to access most e-resources as if you were on campus. 
2. VPN (Virtual Private Network). Register with IT Services to log on to the network via VPN. Once logged on you can access all e-resources as if you were on campus.

For further information see the Bodleian Libraries remote access guide.

Finding books and journals

Use SOLO to search for books and journals held in Oxford libraries.

Use author and/or title searches to find books. If you are looking for books on a topic, type in useful subject terms.

E.g. Great Britain History Civil War. [more on subject searching]

Key journals

British journals

• English Historical Review
• Historical Journal
• Irish Historical Studies
• Journal of British Studies
• Past & Present
• Scottish Historical Review
• Transaction of the Royal Historical Society (TRHS)

Western European journals

• European History Quarterly
• German History
• Historische Zeitschrift
• French History
• Archivio storico italiano
• Hispania

Period-specific journals

• Sixteenth Century Journal
• Seventeenth Century
• Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies

Finding journal articles

While you can search for journal articles in SOLO, if you are searching by subject it is actually best to use special databases.This is particularly true if you don't have any or only complete references to articles or journals. The recommended databases are:

1. Historical Abstracts (c. 1450-current; world history excl. North America)
2. Bibliography of British & Irish History (Roman Britain to current; British, Irish and Commonwealth countries) > IHR Resource Pack
3. Index Religiosus (church and religious history)

More on how to find journal articles.

Reviews are typically...

• published in history journals (e.g. Past & Present) or newspapers (e.g. Times Literary Supplement, New York Book Reviews, etc.)
• indexed in a bibliograpical databases such as Bibliography of British and Irish History or Historical Abstracts (Oxford users only)
• published in H-Net;
• Reviews in History publishes reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest.  The ejournals includes over 1000 reviews to date and new reviews appear regularly. You can browse reviews by type of review (digital reviews, textbooks, articles, books, etc.) or by subject, period or country.
• Choice Reviews Online (Oxford users only): publishes annually more than 7,000 concise reviews of academic titles, including books and electronic resources. The reviews are organized by discipline and also feature bibliographic essays and lists of significant forthcoming titles.You can browse or search through the issue, going back to 1988.

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