History
Finding Books
The best place to find books, monographs, or reports at the University of Calgary is the library search box on the main library home page.
- Library Search BoxThis search box can help you find books, theses, book chapters for electronic books, primary sources, journals, journal articles, microformats titles, and more. from the University of Calgary's collections.
To search for a specific title, author, or subject, use the Advanced Search. Once you find a relevant item, look at the full catalogue record and use the subject headings assigned to that item to continue your search.
It is best to filter your search results under "Item Type" on the left-hand side to books, book chapters, or e-books. Tutorials on how to search for specific items can be found under "Where to Start" in this guide.
You can also use bibliographies and other Reference Sources to identify useful books.
Digital Books
Here are some of the databases you can search to find e-books at the University of Calgary related to History.
- Cambridge Histories This link opens in a new windowProvides full text to the complete 300-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories series.Cambridge Histories spans subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
- Cambridge Core. Books This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to ebooks covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. - Canada Commons This link opens in a new windowTrojman Corporation and Coherent Digital have developed a new version of Canadian Electronic Library with more content and a new platform - Canada Commons. Canada Commons brings rare, hard-to-find content from Canada that's relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics. Canada Commons offers extensive coverage of Canadian materials with 25,000 ebooks from scholarly and independent publishers; 180, 000 public policy papers; over 200,000 titles; and a 4,000 entry directory of Canadian research and government organizations. Content was previously available on the dèsLibris platform and is now exclusively on the Canada Commons platform.
- Canadiana Online This link opens in a new windowCanadiana online is a full-text searchable database that includes books, journals and government publications documenting Canadian History. The e-book collection, spans three and a half centuries of Canadian documentary history, holds rich primary materials exploring a wide range of subjects and disciplines. Topics range from major historical events to the development of institutions, laws, and science; from Canadian literature to philosophical treatises; from agriculture to politics, trade, and tariffs. The Serials collection includes a wide range of daily and weekly newspapers, specialized journals, and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations. Specialized publications include trade or industry journals as well as many men’s, women’s, student’s and children’s popular magazines. Early periodicals are an invaluable source of information for researchers in all fields, as they offer a remarkable record of thought and opinion on diverse issues. Lavishly-illustrated journals open a captivating window onto early Canadian society and culture through their articles, advertisements, cartoons, drawings, and photographs. The Government Publications collection includes over 1.7 million pages of historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents. This collection includes government acts, bills, committee reports, court rules, debates, journals, ordinances, a selection of official publications from France and Great Britain, sessional papers, regulations, royal commission reports, voter’s lists, and treaties.
- Ebook central This link opens in a new windowOver 30,000 digital books on all topics including many works for religious studies.Ebooks are offered from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools, such as Bookshelf. Titles from the former ebrary Academic Complete collection are included.
- eBook collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowProvides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain.
- Hathi Trust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowAs a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the immense collections of partner institutions. It was initially conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, and quickly expanded to include additional partners with fast growing treasure of digitized collections.
- Local Histories This link opens in a new windowConsists primarily of books and books on microfiche. Both general province-wide histories and histories of specific regions and communities are available. The content of the collection is based on A Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces to 1953 with Biographical Index compiled by Bruce Braden Peel and Alberta, 1954-1979 A Provincial Bibliography compiled by Gloria M. Strathern. In addition, a number of histories produced after these bibliographies were created have been added to the collection.
Please note that the language, terminology or visual content in this collection reflects the context and culture of the time of its creation, and may include culturally sensitive information. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the University of Calgary, but is available in its original form to facilitate research. For questions or comments regarding sensitive content, access, and use related to this collection, please contact digitize@ucalgary.ca. - SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
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SpringerLink contains books, scientific journals, conference proceedings and papers and reference works covering areas such as, medicine, the sciences, the humanities and social sciences, mathematics, education, business and management, law, and much more. Material can be found in a variety of languages including English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Chinese. - University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) is an online library which includes over 20,000 high-quality works of scholarship across the humanities, arts, social sciences, sciences, medicine. Including Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO), UPSO publishes new books ten times a year from an ever-growing roster of contributing presses, each adding to the variety of subjects covered on the platform.
- eScholarship Editions (University of California Digital Library)Over 500 texts are freely available.
Finding Theses
Theses and dissertations are excellent sources of scholarly information on a subject and their comprehensive bibliographies on the subject make them useful at any stage of your research. They can be found in a number of places.
- Theses & Dissertation DatabasesA list of databases available at the University of Calgary to find theses and dissertations.
- University of Calgary Theses at the University ArchivesThe University Archives is responsible for preserving University of Calgary theses and dissertations created prior to the launch of the electronic theses and dissertations program in September 2012. Many of these original theses have not been digitized and are available only in paper format. Unbound paper copies of theses may be consulted in during normal opening hours.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowSearchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.
- Directory of History DissertationsProduced by the American Historical Society, this resource lists dissertations completed or currently in progress at over 200 academic departments in Canada and the U.S.
- CRL library catalog This link opens in a new windowDissertations collected from outside Canada and the United States.
- Access digitized content directly through CRL online catalog request other material through UofC Interlibrary Loans
Membership in Center for Research Libraries provides access to a wide range of uncommon materials, with a focus on news, law and government, finance, the history of science, technology and engineering, and the history and economics of agriculture. The approximately five million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other resources held by CRL support original research and teaching. CRL holdings include materials from all world regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central, South and Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. While these shared collections are largely paper and microform, CRL provides online access to a continually expanding body of digital materials. CRL digital collections of primary source materials support research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
- British Library EthOSProvides free access to many British dissertations.
- CyberthesesProvides access to citations of French dissertations from North America, Europe, Africa and South America from 1972 to present.
- DART-Europe E-theses PortalAccess to 688,043 open access research theses from 594 Universities in 28 European countries.
- DialnetIndex to Spanish theses, provides full text access for many works.
- Dissertations.seSearch over 26,000 English-language Swedish dissertations - many are available full text.
- National Library of Canada Theses Canada PortalProvides access to the National Library of Canada theses collection, 1965 - over 300,000 theses with over 50,000 available in full text.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowWorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.
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