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Historical Research Tools
Subject guides
To assist you in getting started on your research, there is a History Subject Guide on this website, and also a guide for Latin American Studies. These guides are intended to provide you with information about where to find books and journal articles on the topic you are researching. Once you have located pertinent books and articles, look in their footnotes and bibliographies to discover what the authors used as resources, thereby working your way back as far as you can to actual primary resource material. Ask yourself continually, "Where did they get that information?" "What is the original source of that information?"
You can search the Library's online catalog to find books on your research topic and work with the printed indexes (on the 1st Floor) or the electronic databases, to locate articles about the topic. You have access to 27 electronic databases on the Library website that are specifically for finding information about history topics. There are 8 electronic databases on Spanish topics or in the Spanish language, that might also be helpful to you, if you are researching a Latin American Studies topic.
For more information, click here for online tutorials on how to access library materials.
The column to the right of this screen contains links to information that should be very useful to you. From that column, you can link directly to the UNT Libraries' catalog and also the electronic databases, which you can use to find books and articles of interest to you.
If you discover a resource you need that is not part of the UNT Library collection, you can request it through InterLibrary Loan. You will need to set up an Illiad account and it will take a few days, probably, for ILL to get the materials you need, so you should plan ahead and allow time for the material to arrive in time for you to use it.
If you do not live on campus and need to access the Library's electronic resources, there is also a link in the column for information about how to arrange access.
Accessing the Collections of Other Libraries
It is possible for you to get a special library card to give you the ability to check out materials at other libraries.
You can check out some materials in other libraries by obtaining a TexShare card through our Circulation Department. The TexShare card allows you to use any public or academic library in Texas. To apply for a TexShare card, please contact the Circulation Department in the Willis Library, call (940)565-2413, or send an e-mail request to circ@library.unt.edu. Please be sure to include your name, your student ID number, and your address in the request.