{"id":5133,"date":"2021-02-15T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:29:03","slug":"resource-in-focus-bibliography-of-british-and-irish-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/resource-in-focus-bibliography-of-british-and-irish-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource in focus: Bibliography of British and Irish History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)<\/strong><\/a><\/em> is a database of over 600,000 records about British and Irish history from 55BC to the present day. It indexes publications from the early 1900s to the present, including journal articles, books, book chapters and theses, making it an indispensable resource for finding secondary literature. It’s updated three times a year, and is curated by historians, so it’s a very high quality, well-organised database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Searching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can search it in various ways, including by subject, author, place and date. Choose Advanced search<\/strong> to get the full range of options, including browsing a subject ‘tree’ (or index) to help you select appropriate search terms, and broaden or narrow your search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finding the full text<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Your records will link to the full text article at Newcastle University Library if we have access to it. Just click to display the details of a record, and the full text links will be at the bottom of the record in an external links<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If we don’t have access to the full text of an article, there won’t be an external links section. Please note that if the item you want is a book or book chapter, BBIH <\/em><\/strong>won’t link to it automatically, so you’ll need to search for the book separately in Library Search<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can export records in various ways to create your own bibliography: just click on Export <\/em>at the top of the screen to see the options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Need more help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BBIH<\/em><\/strong> has recently released a really helpful set of short videos and guides<\/a>, aimed at first and second year students; students doing a dissertation or thesis, and lecturers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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