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Overview
History Study Centre is an online resource of digitised primary and secondary sources with over 40,000 documents and articles. It is a general history resource covering British, American, European, and world history, and includes over 50 reference works, 60 journals, 3,000 images, and a multimedia section.
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Full Text Linking
This resource is compliant with the OpenURL standard. Durable URL links are available for most pages but are not available for individual articles.
Federated Searching
XML Gateway support allows searching by remote systems.
Metadata Standards
This resource complies with the SRU (search/retrieve via URL) standard protocol.
Marc Records
MARC records are available for this resource and contain OpenURL links to content within the resource. They are updated twice a year.
Search Options
Users can search general documents by keyword, title, and subject.
Multimedia items have captions and can be searched by keyword and title, and can be limited by resource type.
Journal articles can be searched by keyword, article title, author, journal title and date, and are full text searchable, with an option to limit keyword searching to the citation and abstract.
Users can use an advanced search option to combine all of the basic search features.
Post Search Options
Users can save searches and items in their personal folders, and can email citations.
Usage Statistics
Usage statistics are available as either daily or monthly reports as tables or excel files.
Statistics include: sessions, searches, hits, searches returning no hits, full text access, full record access, and users denied access.
COUNTER compliant statistics are also available for full text journals.
Authentication
Authentication is via the the UK Access Management Federation, Athens, and IP address range.
Accessibility
This resource aims to comply with Level 1 of the WAI guidelines.
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