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→Welcome to Fall Quarter 2009!

→Pardon our dust! Young Research Library is being renovated.  A-level renovations are nearly completed and will include a great new study area and space for our microfilm and map collections.  Read more at our University Librarian's blog.

→Please note that I have reorganized the Primary Sources information to make different types of resources easier to find. If you miss the old version, just mouse-over the Primary Sources tab and you will find the "Primary Sources - old version" tab below it. Let me know what you think!

This research guide will point you toward online research resources and strategies available to you as scholars doing historical research at UCLA.  You will also find some help locating analog resources (e.g. print, microfilm, audiovisual) in our library catalogs.

Visit this guide regularly to check for upcoming library workshops and events, as well as newly acquired resources to help you in your research process.

If your area of research is outside Anglophone North America, Australia/New Zealand, and Europe, consider contacting the appropriate subject specialist at http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/librarians.cfm.

There are a number of library catalogs available to UCLA researchers. For an explanation of why we have so many catalogs, what they each contain, and how we may end up with a single library catalog interface in the future, check out the Books Tab in this guide.

These online sources are good places to start your research in history. For quick reference, hold your mouse over a link for a brief description of the resource.

For more suggested sources, go to the tabs at the top of the page.

Know any good scholarly history-related blogs or news feeds? Let me know so that I can post them here on the front page. Also be sure to use the comments function in each box to suggest resources to include, resources to drop, or other feedback.

Research assistance in the social sciences and humanities is available at the Charles E. Young Research Library. See Reference and Research Help for complete reference service options.