The History Librarian

After reading a few posts on Open Access News (here’s one post about OpenDOAR’s custom search engine), I decided to try Google’s custom search engine. I created a history search engine that searched open access journals, important collections of primary sources (American Memory, History Matters, etc.), and Sharon’s Early Modern Web pages. I can add additional sites as I go along, but in general it seems like an interesting way to have students search a more limited universe of material. Anyway, I put the search box on my history subject guide page at work.  Let me know what you think (or make other suggestions for web resources to search). I can invite others to collaborate on the search engine, so if you’d like to help expand the resources that it searches (or refine them), also let me know via the comments.