Top Civil War Databases
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Historical scholarly journals, magazines, books and more covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. - Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Military History, Medieval Studies, and Islamic Studies research guides including citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and authoritative articles written and reviewed by top scholars in the field
General History Databases
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical scholarly journals, magazines, books and more covering the entire world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new windowA collection of periodicals, academic journals and other current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
- ProQuest Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Search full-text periodicals covering social sciences disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology..
- Films on Demand History Video Collection
A streaming video collection of documentary films covering all world regions, including a large number of films related to military history.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Primary sources from around the world and scholarly journal articles spanning a wide range of fields and going as far back as the 1800s. Coverage for most journals in this database ends 3-5 years ago. - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Articles from scholarly and professional journals, magazines, and newspapers on a wide range of subjects, many full text.
- General OneFile This link opens in a new window
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics and academic disciplines.
- Sage Premier All Access This link opens in a new window
Electronic access to over 645 peer-reviewed journals spanning subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, technology, and medicine.
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Request books or articles the library does not have access to via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). About 90% of article requests are filled within 24 hours Monday-Friday.
- Request Materials from Other LibrariesLearn how to use our Interlibrary Loan service to place requests, retrieve articles, and renew items.
- Submit an Interlibrary Loan RequestCreate a new request by manual entry.
- Access Your ILL RequestsCheck on the status of outstanding requests and retrieve received articles
Tips for Using Oxford Bibliographies Online - Military History
Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, written and reviewed by academic experts, with original commentary and annotations. You can take a guided video tour of Oxford Bibliographies here!
Each bibliography that is available in the Oxford Bibliographies database contains the best scholarly material on a given topic in military history. You can check to see whether or not the library owns or has immediate access to a book or journal article listed by following the steps below.
- Step 1 - Click on the plus-sign (+) underneath the citation:
- Step 2 - Click on the "World Cat" link to automatically search the Kreitzberg Library's holdings:
- Step 3 - If the record that appears does not show the message "Held by Norwich University Kreitzberg Library" try clicking on the "Editions & Formats" tab to check if the Library owns another edition of the item you need.
- Step 4 - Click on the title of the edition that the Library owns (see below for an example). If the Library does not own any edition of the item you need, you can place an Interlibrary Loan Request to obtain the book or article you need for free!
