To Find Books
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
- Art, Modern - 20th Century - History
- Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946
- Depressions - 1929
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
- Jazz - 1921-1930
- Jazz - 1931-1940
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- United States - History - 1933-1945
- United States - History - 1919-1933
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.
To Find Articles
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
General
- ArticleFirst (FirstSearch) 1990 - present.
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Links to full text 1997 - present.Cites journal articles and provides a limited number of full-text articles on a variety of topics, including business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide. -
Dissertations
& Theses (ProQuest) 1861 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1963 - present (Includes UMKC dissertations and theses only).
"The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year." Selected full text for UMKC dissertations and theses is available. [Source: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database information page; accessed January 3, 2007.] - Grove Art Online is now part of Oxford Art Online Save to del.icio.us
Full text.
Provides global coverage of all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the present. The print version is The Dictionary of Art located in Miller Nichols Library Reference at Ref N31 .D5 1996, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, which is not held by the UMKC Libraries. - Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford
Music Online. Save to del.icio.us
Full text.
Provides authoritative articles covering all aspects of music and biographical information on musicians. Incorporates the revised and updated texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. - JSTOR 1838 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. Coverage varies by title.
New Additional journals are now available with the addition of these collections: A&S Complement, A&S V, and Business II.
Contains fully searchable scanned articles from selected journals in a broad range of disciplines, including African-American studies, art, ecology, economics, education, history, law, literature, music, general science, sociology, and statistics. (To see a complete list of discipines and journal titles, link to the JSTOR browse list.) Covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume one; however, the most recent three to five years of journals are not generally available. - LexisNexis Academic 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1980 - present.
Provides citations and abstracts or the full text of materials covering general news topics, company research and financial data, industry analysis, government and politics, taxation, and the law. Available resources include newspapers, magazines, journals, business reference materials, case law, law reviews, and industry reports. Link to LexisNexis Academic user's guide.
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MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost), 1975 - present; coverage varies by title Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1975 - present; coverage varies by title.
Provides full text for more than 2,100 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,800 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 635 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,135 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications. [Source: MasterFILE Premier Database Information Screen, June 23, 2005]
Link to EBSCOhost web user's guide. - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. - Project MUSE (Premium Collection) Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1993 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the upgrade to Project MUSE Premium Collection.
Supplies full-text articles from scholarly journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies. - Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Ref Index Wall 2 AI3 .R48
Contemporary Sources (Magazines & Newspapers)
- Kansas City Star (NewsBank) 1991 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1991 - present.
A fully searchable database of articles from the Kansas City Star. The newspaper is available 1885 - present on microfilm on the Miller Nichols Library First Floor. - Life
(1936-1969) Ground Floor Microfilm Periodical
(1936-1972) Periodical f Periodical
(1936-1987) Special Collections Periodic Periodical - Look
(1947-1971) f Periodical
(1950-1952, 1954-1971) Special Collections Periodic Periodical - The
New York Times
(1857-) 1st Fl Mfilm Periodical - The New York Times Index
(1913-) Ref Index Wall 2 AI21 .N452 - Personal Name Index to the "New York Times Index"
(1851-1974) Ref Index Wall 2 Z5301 .F28 - St.
Louis Post Dispatch (NewsBank) Save
to del.icio.us
Full text 1988 - present.
A fully searchable database of articles from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The latest three months of the newspaper are also available in paper format at the Access Services Desk on the Miller Nichols Library First Floor. - Times
(London)
(1785-) 1st Fl Mfilm Periodical
- Architectural
Index, 1974-present.
Ref Z5941 .A66 - Art Full Text (Wilson) 1984 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1997 - present.
Contains citations and abstracts of articles from peer-selected art journals. Full-text is available from selected journals. The print version, Art Index, is available in Miller Nichols Library Reference at Ref Z5937.A78. - Art
Index 1929/32-present
Ref Z5937 .A78 - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA) 1934 - present, with selective coverage back to 1741. Save to del.icio.us
Includes citations from international journals on architecture, archeology, city planning, interior design, furniture and decoration, and historic preservation. - Bibliography of the History of Art (FirstSearch) 1973 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Indexes and abstracts art-related periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition and dealer's catalogs, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. - Index
of American Design
Ground Fl Mfiche 5767
Color microfiche collection. Watercolor paintings of objects of decorative, folk, and popular arts in America from settlement to 1900. The paintings were done as part of the Federal Arts Project, WPA.
Biography
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 1995. Accessible only from the computers in the Information Commons on the First Floor of the Miller Nichols Library. Ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.Indexes sources of biographical information for people from the beginning of time to the present. Provides name of the biographee, birth and death years, and the source of further biographical information.
- Biography Index (FirstSearch)
Note: This database is no longer available.
Cites biographical articles on individuals from antiquity to the present. In addition to journal articles, the database includes citations to selected books of individual and collective biography as well as biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Citations to interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies and exhibition reviews are also included. Link to FirstSearch Web user's guide.
Business/Economics
- ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) 1971 - present. Save to del.icio.us.
Selected full text 1985 - present.
ABI/INFORM Global indexes and abstracts over 2,770 publications in the area of business and management, with full text available for over 1,840 titles. Publications range from magazines to trade publications to scholarly journals. Full text is also available for the Wall Street Journal. - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. - Social Sciences Index (1974-1997)
Ref Index Wall 2 Z7161 .S6
Education
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Education Full Text (Wilson) 1983 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1996 - present.
"Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994." [Source: Education Full Text database description, accessed June 15, 2006] The print version of this database is Education Index. The volumes for 1929 - 1999 are located in Miller Nichols Library, Ref Index Wall Z5813 .E23. - ERIC (CSA) 1966 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Links to selected full text, 1993 - 2004.
"The ERIC ( Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational- related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.... Major areas of coverage include: Adult, Career, and Vocational Education; Counseling and Personnel Services; Elementary and Early Childhood Education; Education Management; Handicapped and Gifted Children; Higher Education; Information Resources; Junior Colleges; Languages and Linguistics; Reading and Communication Skills; Rural Education and Small Schools; Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education; Social Studies and Social Science Education; Teacher Education; Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation; Teacher Education; Test, Measurement, and Evaluation; Urban Education." [Source: ERIC Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]
Link to ERIC user's guide.
History
- America:
History and Life (EBSCOhost) 1964 - present. Save
to del.icio.us
Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. "Each year over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide are scanned for relevant articles of special interest to students of U.S. and Canadian history and related fields. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews from a selection of over 100 key journals in U.S. and Canadian history." [Source: America: History and Life on the Web, accessed May 15, 2006] Link to America History and Life user's guide. - The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Ready Ref D20 .A55 - Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) 1954 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1954 - present.
Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Link to History Abstracts user's guide. - Humanities Index (1974-1997)
Ref Z5579 .H8 - International Index to Periodicals (1920-1955)
Ref Index Wall 2 AI3 .R488 - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. - The New York Times Index (1913-)
Ref Index Wall 2 AI21 .N452 - Social Sciences and Humanities Index
Ref Index Wall 2 AI3 .R49
Literature/Film/Theater
- Film Literature Index
Ref Z5784 .M9 F45 - International Film Archive (SilverPlatter) 1972 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Published by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), this collection contains several databases: FIAF Members Publications, Index to Film Periodicals, Index to TV Periodicals, International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections, List of Periodicals Indexed, and Treasures from the Film Archives. - MLA International Bibliography (Chadwyck-Healey) 1884 - present. Save to del.icio.us
An index to scholarship in literature, linguistics, film, folklore, and cultural studies. The print version of this bibliography is available in the Miller Nichols Library and covers 1921 - 1999. The location and call number are Reference Index Wall Z7006 .M64. See the MLA Directory of Periodicals for a list of periodicals indexed.
Music
- International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (Chadwyck-Healey) 1874 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1993 - present.
Note: searches of this database are now through Music & Performing Arts Online.
Covers a broad range of aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. -
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (Chadwyck Healey) 1864
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text, content varies by title.
Note: searches of this database are now through Music & Performing Arts Online.
Indexes articles related to theatre, dance, music, television and film in popular and scholarly journals in the performing arts. Includes full text for selected titles. Link to International Index of the Performing Arts user's guide. -
Music Index Online 1979 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Offers access to articles in music periodicals on a broad range of subjects, including past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, plus computer produced music. The print version 1949 - present is available in Miller Nichols Library Music Ref ML118 .M84. - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (FirstSearch) 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us
International in scope, RILM covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. The printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1967 - present is available in Miller Nichols Library Music Ref ML111 .R2. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.
Politics
- Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) 1954 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1954 - present.
Indexes and abstracts articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Link to History Abstracts user's guide. -
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
The ICPSR, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is a membership organization that provides access to the world's largest computerized social science data archive, training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, and resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies. For more information about UMKC's membership in the ICPSR, see the Libraries' information about the ICPSR Data Archive Service.
Science/Technology
- General Science Index
Ref Index Wall 1 Z7401 .G46 - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Sociology
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Sociological Abstracts (CSA) 1963 - present. Save to del.icio.us
"CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's studies." [Source: Sociological Abstracts Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]
University Libraries Photocopying and Printing Services
Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Directories, Statistics, Bibliographies
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
| Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950 | Ground Fl Mfiche 7792 |
| 1st Fl MicroRef E185.96 .B52 | |
| 1st Fl MicroRef E185.96 .B53 | |
| Dictionary of American History | Ref E174 .D52 |
| The Dictionary of Art | Ref N31 .D5 |
| Dictionary of the History of Ideas | Ref CB5.D52 |
| The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz | Music Ref ML102 .J3 N48 |
| The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Music Ref ML100 .N48 |
| The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century | Media A/V MV 86:2 |
Bibliographies
| Archives of American Art | Ref Z6611 .A7 .M3 |
| Bibliographie D'Historie de L'Art (Bibliography of the History of Art), 1991-present. | Ref Z5937 .R162 |
| Bibliography of the history of art [electronic resource] : BHA. 1973 to the present. | CD-ROM in Miller Nichols Library |
| Repertoire international de la litterature de l'art (International repertory of the literature of art) 1973, 1975-1989. | 4th Floor Index Z5937 .R16 |
Additional Sources
| American Decades 1930-1939 | Ref E269.12.A419 v. 4 |
Government Publications
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.
- GPO Access Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Full text.
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, this database provides access to information products produced by the federal government, including the Federal Register, Public Laws and the Congressional Record. "The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted." [Source: GPO Access homepage, accessed June 21, 2006.]
- GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) 1976 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, the catalog offers bibliographic citations for all types of U.S. government publications: reports, hearings, statistics, and documents issued by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government, commissions, and other U.S. governmental organizations. The print version, the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, for 1900 - present is located in Miller Nichols Library in the Government Publications Alcove GP3.8/8:. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide.
Web Resources
- EDSITEMENT: The Best of the Humanities
on the Web
Links to significant Internet sites in the areas of literature, history, foreign languages, and art history.
(edsitement.neh.gov/) - The New Deal Network
Includes many collections of everyday life.
(newdeal.feri.org/index.htm) - UCLA
Arts Library: Selected Internet Sources in Art and Art History
(www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/websites/wwwart.htm)
Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
Document Collections
- UMKC University Libraries Special Collections
and Marr Sound Archives
Miller Nichols Library, room 411
Research collections include the history of Kansas City; political papers; Truman Library Research Files; photographs documenting history of jazz, and other aspects of Kansas City history. - Kansas
City: Paris of the Plains
Web exhibit. - MARR Sound Archives
Miller Nichols Library, room G11
Research collection includes original sound recordings: popular music, spoken word, and music documenting American social and cultural history. - Club Kaycee
Sights and sounds of the golden age of Kansas City jazz, from the sound archive and music collection of Miller Nichols Library. - America,
1935-1946
- The
FSA/OWI Photographs: Midwest.
Ground Fl Mfiche 6629 - Index
to the Microfiche
1st Fl MicroRef HC106.4 .A63
Nearly 14,000 photographs from the collection of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographs which depict the sociological and economic conditions of the Depression. See also America from the Great Depression to World War II below.
- The
FSA/OWI Photographs: Midwest.
- Presidential Studies
Collection at UMKC
Sponsored by the Truman Presidential Museum and Library and the UMKC Miller Nichols Library Special Collections Department - Library of Congress
(www.loc.gov/) - American Memory Collections
- America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from
the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
(lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html) - American
Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1940
(memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpahome.html) - The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 (lcweb2loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html)
- Voices
from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant
Worker Collection
(memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html) - Smithsonian Institution Research
Information System
(www.siris.si.edu)
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
