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Penrod, Michael Lane – 1994
This study looks at the issue of using alternative databases to support research on historical topics. The literature on online searching in history is not as well developed, nor as extensive, as literature about online searching in other subject areas. In addition, there are only two major databases that are history-specific in terms of subject…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, History, Information Retrieval