New Oklahoma History Links

I've added links to our web site for a pair of excellent Oklahoma history resources created by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

The first is the online newspaper archive Gateway to Oklahoma History. This resource provides access to newspapers published in Oklahoma from the 1840s to the 1920s. There are newspapers from Oklahoma City and Tulsa, as well as from towns that have nearly disappeared, such as Wapanucka and Cloud Chief. You can search the collection by keyword or by date. The link is on the Newspapers page.

The second resource is the Oklahoma Historical Society Research Center. This is a large collection of digitized public records from pre-statehood to the 20th century. Key resources include censuses, tribal rolls, and records of marriages, divorces, and deaths. The link is on the Social Sciences page.

New JSTOR program: Register & Read

JSTOR has a relatively new beta program Register & Read. It allows online access ( to certain journals) to anyone who registers for a MYJSTOR account. I don't know if it expanded our subscription base or not, but it is a new interface/tool with which we should become familiar.

• Log in to jstor.org and start searching.
• Look for “Read Online Free” above the article and click on it.
• Add the article to your “reading shelf” to read the full text.
• Save up to 3 articles on your shelf at a given time. After 14 days, you can remove articles and replace them with new ones.

The journal AGNI has a number of "Read Online Free" articles available if you are curious about working with the new tool.  For more info about Register & Read: http://about.jstor.org/individuals-faq