User:Jengod/Research and reference bookmarks




 * Wikipedia Library
 * Oxford Ref Library: Geography & Earth Science
 * Oxford Ref Library: Bilingual Dictionaries
 * Ancestry.com: U.S. City Directories (1822–1995)
 * MUSE + DeGruyter
 * READ: Wikipedia Library Newsletter Books & Bytes
 * upvote new sources
 * Free English newspaper sources (FENS)
 * via LAPL:
 * CAL INDEX ‼️
 * LAPL historical newspapers: ProQuest & NewspaperArchive.com
 * OED
 * NYT.com search
 * onlinebooks Harper's Weekly links
 * newspapers.com The Liberator (1831–1865)
 * The Herald of Freedom (1851–1855)
 * Papers:
 * Academia.edu
 * Google Scholar
 * JSTOR - 100 articles free per month! <3
 * ResearchGate.net
 * ResearchGate.net

Books
Link to HathiTrust version of free ebooks when available (better UI esp on mobile, individual pages are downloadable, etc.)
 * Google Books
 * Hathi Trust
 * Internet Archive book collection
 * List of digital library projects

Library catalogs

 * catalog.loc.gov
 * worldcat.org
 * Library and Archives Canada (en)
 * British Library main catalogue

Regional

 * calisphere
 * dp.la
 * LAPL photo
 * CA Digital Newspaper Collection
 * UCLA Digital Collections
 * USC Digital Library
 * UCSD Digital Collections
 * CSUMB Digital Commons
 * CSUSB WRA Aerial Photo Collection (Riverside, SB)
 * Claremont Digital Library
 * UC Berkeley Digital Collections
 * 1888 irrigation map


 * Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection
 * Curt Teich Postcard Archives
 * Arizona Memory
 * Portal to Texas History

Free non-English newspaper sources (FNENS)

 * Europeana.eu Digital Newspaper Collections
 * National Library of Israel newspaper collection (sources in Hebrew, Arabic, and English)
 * National Széchényi Library periodical search (Hungarian)
 * Tímarit.is (Icelandic)

Pretty expensive English newspaper sources (PEENS)

 * Bloomberg Professional Services
 * British Newspaper Archive (Irish papers as well; subs avail via Wikipedia Library)
 * Lexis-Nexis
 * Newspapers.com (subs avail via Wikipedia Library)
 * NewspaperArchive.com, potato-quality microfilm scans of smaller/different papers than Newspapers.com (subs avail via Wikipedia Library)
 * ProQuest

U.S. history sources
"The Civil War was not the chivalrous contest that white American prefers to remember."
 * Commons:Category:Maps (NARA)
 * Confederate Officers' Card Index
 * NYC Digital Vital Records
 * Perry Castañeda Library US Topo 1887–1945 & US Topo 250k broad view
 * NARA: Post Office Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950 🕵️ 🏅
 * USGS National Map Download Client
 * familysearch.org 🕵️ 🏅
 * For oldest state prisons mostly likely to hold records of those convicted of ancient crimes: Lists of United States state prisons
 * Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent ; Vol. 1. (1915). United States: (n.p.).
 * WWII: amphibious assaults have unlinked air-war articles, airfields should probably mention relevant ground campaigns etc.
 * Domestic conflict: Indian war? There's probably a nearby historic railroad stub that has no idea it was involved.
 * Railway Guides