This semester, Oxford Bibliographies Online offered the BGSU History Department’s graduate students free access to this exceptional on-line resource in exchange for the students’ keeping a blog (click here) describing their experiences with OBO. OBO contains hundreds of scholarly articles, each one focused on a particular historical topic and featuring an up-to-date annotated bibliography of relevant publications.  These articles are organized into “series,” such as African American Studies, Atlantic History, Chinese Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, and Military History. Prof. Ruth Herndon contributed the article on “Childhood” to the Atlantic History series and proposed the idea of getting access in exchange for blogging. OBO editor Ben Leonard was “thrilled” with the plan, which will provide OBO with useful feedback for promoting OBO on its home site and in social media.

 

Links:

Oxford Bibliographies Online:  http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/

The graduate students’ blog: http://bgsuhistorybib.blogspot.com

Written by Professor Ruth Herndon