During August I'm working on an updated and interactive web page for North American History. This page will bring together primary source and other full-text history databases that pass muster for scholarly research. Many materials kept in archives are now available for study on the Internet, but students seeking them through Google may not be well served, or may not even realize such resources exist. Online archives or digital collections will be organized on SOU's new North American History page by topic and time period for ease of use by students. When ready this page will be found at http://hanlib.sou.edu/instruct/classpages.html and through
Why bother? Isn't it all available through Google (www.google.com)? In theory, yes, but it doesn't work all that well. Google is likely to return .com sites for U.S. history searches unless users limit the domain to .edu or .org or .gov . If databases are Open Access Initiative (OAI) compliant, Google will search documents within the database; if not, only home page and related pages that are linked to the actual database will be searched.
Google Scholar (www.googlescholar.com) brings up books and articles, but so far does not appear to find online archives., or digital collections such of those of the University of Virginia at http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php?page=Projects
What do you think?
Kate
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