Kraemer Family Library

History 300: Ottoman Empire 1400-1800

Listed below are several sources and tools either owned by Kraemer Family Library or accessible from the Kraemer Family Library web site. All electronic resources may be searched from any computer connected to the UCCS network. For more information about remote access, check with the librarian at the Reference Desk or click on the link, Off Campus Access.

Books at Kraemer Library

Kraemer Library Catalog
Provides access to books, audio visual materials and other print resources at the Library.

Subject searching
Subject searching uses controlled vocabulary and will retrieve relevant items on your research topic.

The subdivisions under broad subject headings will help you narrow your search for information. Here are two examples of subdivisions listed under the main subject heading for the history of the Ottoman Empire::

Turkey History Ottoman Empire 1288 1918
.....Turkey History Ottoman Empire 1288 1918 Economic Aspects
.....Turkey History Ottoman Empire 1288 1918 Social Conditions

Keyword searching
Keyword searching allows you to search for any word(s) in the subject, title, author, and content notes for all item records in the catalog. Keyword searches are not as concise as subject searches and may retrieve irrelevant items. However, keyword search is very useful...

...if you don't know the appropriate subject heading for your topic.
...the subject heading is too general or too specific.
...if you are searching for a new trend or concept.

Example: "Ottoman Empire"

Finding Books Off Campus

Prospector
Search and request books and AV materials from over 20 research and public library collections throughout the state of Colorado and Wyoming. Items requested through Prospector will arrive at Kraemer within 3-5 working days. When the items are available for pickup from the Circulation Desk, you will be notified by e-mail.

WorldCat
An international catalog that UCCS students, staff and faculty may use to request items not available through UCCS or Prospector. You need an ILLiad account to request items in WorldCat. Items can take 2 weeks or more to be delivered.

Finding Articles on your Topic

Researching off campus? You'll need to install the Library VPN to access the library's resources. Directions for Installing the Library VPN.

JSTOR
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

Project MUSE
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Dissertations and Theses
Indexes the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Abstracting of dissertations begins with 1980 and abstracting of theses begins with 1988.

Historical Abstracts
A comprehensive bibliographic indexing and abstracting reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Abstracts dissertations as well as journal literature. No full-text.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. It also includes book reviews. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Academic OneFile
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

Journals

Listed below are some important journals for your research assignment. Please note that not all are available at Kraemer Family Library.

AHL=America: History and Life; HA=Historical Abstracts; ASP=Academic Search Premier

Arab Studies Journal (no holdings; no indexing)
American Historical Review (fulltext JSTOR 1895-2002; indexed in HA from 1954 to present)
Belleten (no holdings; no indexing)
Daedalus (fulltext in Academic OneFile from 1992; print holdings from 1960-1999, indexed in HA from 1963-2008)
International Journal of Middle East Studies (fulltext in JSTOR 1970 to 2002; indexed in HA; 1970-2008)
International Journal of Turkish Studies (indexed in HA from 1979-1980)
Journal Asiatique (no holdings; indexed in MLA 1955-1998).
Journal of Early Modern History (full-text from 2000 in ASP; indexed in HA 1997-)
Journal of the American Oriental Society (fulltext in JSTOR 1843-2004; indexed in ASP 1992 to present)
Journal of World History fulltext from 1996 in Project Muse; indexed in HA 1963-2008
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (no holdings; indexed in HA 1980-2006)
New Perspectives on Turkey (no holdings; indexed in HA 1987 to one year ago)
Turcica (no holdings; no indexing)
Turkish Studies Association Bulletin (fulltext in Informaworld from 2000; indexed in AHL 1990-2006)

Locating Journals available through Kraemer Library

To determine if Kraemer Family Library has access to a certain journal in print or electronic format, use the Find Journals By Title or ISSN link on the Kraemer Family Library home page.Finding articles not available through Kraemer Library.

Journals not available through Kraemer Library

ILLiad
If the Library doesn't have access to the journal article you want, you can still get it through interlibrary loan. With an ILLiad account, you can place your requests online. This service can take anywhere from a few days to two weeks depending on the format inwhich the article is delivered. DO YOUR RESEARCH EARLY.

Need Research Help?

Contact the Kraemer Library REFERENCE DESK at 719-255-3295 or e-mail the desk at refdesk@uccs.edu
Or contact Sue Byerley: 719-255-3290; sbyerley@uccs.edu.