Zachary M. Schrag, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021).
Katherine Jewell, The History Mixtapes: Liner Notes, Podcast series of interviews with historians on their notetaking methods, February-April 2021:
Zachary M. Schrag, “Why I Can’t Quit FileMaker Pro,” HistoryProfessor.Org, June 16, 2023, https://historyprofessor.org/methodology/why-i-cant-quit-filemaker-pro/.
Alexandra Samuel, “How to Use Zotero and Scrivener for Research-Driven Writing,” JSTOR Daily (blog), December 17, 2019, https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-use-zotero-and-scrivener-for-research-driven-writing/.
Ian Milligan, History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019).
Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015).
“The Writer’s Studio” series from Modern American History, including:
Richard White, vol. 3, no. 2–3 (2020): 231–39, https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2020.9.
Heather Ann Thompson, vol. 2, no. 1 (2019): 77–82. https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2018.41.
Linda Gordon, vol. 1, no. 1 (2018): 121–28, https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2017.1.
Kate Carpenter, Drafting the Past: A Podcast on the Craft of History
Mark Merry, “Information and Data”, in Designing Databases for Historical Research (London: Institute of Historical Research, Univeristy of London, -2022).
Internet Search Tips, https://gwern.net/search
Niklas Luhmann, “Communicating with Slip Boxes: An Empirical Account,” Luhmann.Surge.Sh, [1981], accessed 2021-04-11, http://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes.
Johannes F. K. Schmidt, “Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine,” in Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe, ed. Alberto Cevolini (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
Markus Krajewski, Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011).
Find books and articles by searching your university’s library catalog.
Check your university library for full-text books available via JStor, Project Muse, ProQuest, etc.
Use Interlibrary Loan service at your university to get books you don’t have at your school library.
Find databases relevant to historical research accessible via your library.
Use Internet Archive to find books, video, and audio.
Use IA’s Wayback Machine to find extinct web sites.
Use Google Scholar to find article PDFs posted by authors on their sites.
Use TOR browser to maintain your privacy.
If you are studying the shifting boundaries between legitimate and shadow libraries, you might be interested in these resources:
A guide to find articles and books.
A guide to find films.
A Facebook group to ask for PDFs of articles and books.
Sundry and various websites to download books, articles, and avant-garde works (you may need TOR browser to open some of the links).
Directions to set up Zotero to download PDFs of articles from this website.
A website to unlock gated online articles.