History Study Center Primary and secondary sources documenting global history 2008

History Study CenterPrimary and secondary sources

documenting global history

2008

History Study Center (HSC)

• Online solution that covers historical topics around the globe and throughout history.

• In-depth coverage of American history.

• Thousands of primary source texts, many digitized by ProQuest for the first time.

• Reliable, factual information.

What is HSC?

History Study Center

• New content added regularly by skilled history editors.

• All content accessible via keyword search or editorially created study units.

• Available as a standalone subscription, or as part of eLibrary Curriculum Edition.

Key Benefits

Five Content Types

• Editorially created units bringing together the best and most interesting content on 500+ historical topics.

1. Study Units

Five Content Types

• Hundreds of important official documents, transcripts of speeches, personal narratives, editorials, and other primary sources.

2. Historical Documents


• Encyclopaedias, historical dictionaries from publishers like Penguin and Taylor & Francis, biographies, and maps, including many animated maps.

• Topic overviews, or essay-length introductions to historical texts, events and themes.

3. Maps & Reference


• Thousands of historical images, video clips, and editorially selected weblinks.

4. Multimedia


• Dozens of academic journals fully searchable and browsable.

• Access to editorially selected articles from hundreds more.

5. Journals


• Quick Search bar enables instant searching of all elements of the Study Center, or specific types.

• Advanced search lets you specify exactly which resources to search in, and more.

• Access individual search screens for each of the five content elements down the right side.

Searching HSC

ProQuest

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Search Results Overview

Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase.

Results are organized by

content type, with jump-down links to

each section.

Results within each

content type are

ranked by relevance.

Study Units

• Editorially created, covering 500+ important historical topics from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America.

• Features— Brief introductions to

topic.— Collection of the best

and most interesting articles, primary sources, maps, photographs, video files, biographies, and editorially screened weblinks.

Study Units

Search for Study Units by keyword, title, or subject.

BrowseStudy Units

by topic.

Study Units

Study Units begin with

a brief introduction.

Resources within the Study Unit

are grouped

by content type.

Study Units

Particularly useful and interesting items are

selected as Study Unit highlights.

Historical Documents

• Primary sources are essential to historical study at all levels.

• Thousands of Historical Documents from a wide range of sources.

• Explanatory commentary on most documents.

• Additional page-image documents, some digitized for the first time by ProQuest.

Many of the searchable documents display as

transcribed text with

comments.


You can search or browse

individual sourcebooks.


Check Primary Sources area for additional page image primary

source documents.

Maps & Reference

• A library of 50+ respected reference volumes, including encyclopaedias, historical atlases, and historiographical guides, plus 79 topic overviews.

• All volumes browsable through Tables of Contents.

• Interactive maps downloadable in PDF format.

Maps & Reference

Click +/- to expand or close each

level in a table of contents.

Maps & Reference

Click image thumbnails to view a larger

version.

Maps & Reference

You can magnify and

scroll through maps using

these controls.

Multimedia

• Archive of thousands of historical images, from early woodcuts to video clips.

• Dating back to the 19th century, to modern news photography.

Multimedia: Video

• All images and video clips with detailed captions to facilitate searching and aid.

• Links to 2,000+ editorially selected history websites.

Multimedia: Images

Journals

• Search and browse thousands of full-text articles from 60 journals.

• Regularly updated with new issues.

• Titles include History Today, Foreign Affairs and Journal of American History.

• Additional selected articles are included in appropriate Study Units.

Search by title, author, or journal,

as well as for keywords. Can include/exclude

book reviews and limit results by

date.

Journals


History Study Center is:

Comprehensive: A rich variety of content covering all eras and continents.

Reliable: Information from reputable publishers or created by in-house editorial team.

Selective: Only interesting, relevant, and appropriate materials.

Summary

History Study Center: What’s New?

Citation Generator• Cite this link at the

top of all content pages.

• Edit citation form, allowing manual addition of extra information.

New in 2008

ProQuest

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Durable URLs• Durable URL link at

the top of all content pages.

• Links (URLs) are easy to copy and paste into webpages, reading lists, emails, etc.

New in 2008


New content + – Helicon’s Chronology

of World History– English Historical

Review (June 2003-present)

– Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Spring 2002-present)

– Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (January 2002-present)

– Twentieth Century British History (March 2002-present)

New in 2008

Educator & Librarian Resources

@ proquestk12.com— Download and print

flyers, study unit lists, more.

— Obtain a current source list.

— Additional background information, training resources, citation guidance, etc.

— Perfect for K-12 users of HSC!

— www.proquestk12.com

History Study CenterQuestions? Call our ProQuest

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