Finding Books to Support Your Research Topic
Note: the Library of Congress Subject Heading for World War II is “World War, 1939-1945”
Voyager – Norwich University’s Online Catalog.
eBrary – An online database containing electronic books full-text online
WorldCat – An online database that allows you to search for materials from the collections of libraries all over the world. You can request materials right from the WorldCat interface.
Some Selected Reference Works Held by the Kreitzberg Library
Tucker, S.C. The Encyclopedia of World War II: a political, social and military history. 5 volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press, 2005.
Xreferplus - A collection of over 200 high-quality digital reference titles. Subject areas include: art, biography, business, geography, history, humanities, language, literature, music, and science and technology
Finding Articles to Support Your Research Topic
Online Databases for History can be accessed here.
- Academic Search Premier
- Multidiscipline database containing full-text scholarly articles
- Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
- Citations only (1990 - present).
- America: History and Life
- Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- Historical Abstracts
- Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
- Historical New York Times
- Search and browse the New York Times from 1851 until 2003.
- Infotrac Onefile
- A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics and academic disciplines
- In the First Person
- Index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives.
- JSTOR
- Backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals spanning numerous disciplines
- Military & Government Collection
- A collection of periodicals, academic journals and other current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
- ProQuest Social Science Journals
- Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.
- Wilson OmniFile Select
- Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business
Finding Specific Journal Holdings Available at Kreitzberg Library
Periodicals A to Z is a database that will allow you to search for a specific journal title and find in which databases it is available in full-text (or if it is available in the library). For instructions on how to use Periodicals A to Z, visit this page on the Research Guide.
Once you have found a link to an online journal, many will let you search within that journal for a particular author or subject.
Borrowing Materials Not Owned by Kreitzberg Library
Interlibrary Loan – You may find an item not available in the Kreitzberg Library when searching the online databases. In that case, you can requests the item through interlibrary loan. Allow at least a week for your requested items to arrive.
Finding Resources on the Web
The Web can be a terrific resource for finding information. However, you need to be careful about the information you choose to use in your research. This page gives you some tips on how to evaluate Websites.
Some Suggested Websites
- US National Archives World War II selections
- Library of Congress Guide to World War II materials
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School, World War II Documents
If you have a question or comment about the Library's website, please e-mail library@norwich.edu.
