If you have any questions, please contact a librarian via email (ask@gettysburg.edu), through our online chat service, or by phone (717-337-6600).
During the academic year, librarians are available:
For questions regarding your login/password, acessing Moodle, Panopto, or Office 365, refer to the IT FAQ for for the MA in American History program.
You may also contact the IT HelpDesk directly for any other questions.
While dissertations and theses may be a part of your historiography, they can be challenging to access since print copies are often only held by the library at the degree-granting institution. Some recent dissertations may be available online, but it depends on the university.
As a result, we are unable to complete requests for digital scans of sections of a print dissertation or thesis via interlibrary loan.
If you're seeking a copy of a PhD dissertation or MA thesis:
To access ebooks and journal articles, you will be prompted for your Gettysburg College login (your user name is the start of your email address).
Use the "Sign In" link in the upper-right corner before you search to skip login requests for some resources and save/pin items.
Interlibrary loan is a service that allows Gettysburg College students, faculty, and staff to borrow materials unavailable at Musselman Library from other libraries around the world.
Interlibrary loan is fully integrated with MUSCAT Plus, the library catalog. Members of the campus community are able to make and manage requests through their library account. See the tabs above for step-by-step directions on requesting materials.
Or, you can submit requests directly based on a citation using the request form in Muscat Plus.
Make sure that we do not have access to the article by searching for it by title in Muscat Plus or a library database.
Search MUSCAT Plus first to see if available via Musselman Library. This will let you see what we own or do not own.
There may be occasions when you would prefer to use a print copy of a book. Search by title on Worldcat.org to see if a library near you holds a copy.
As a MA student at Gettysburg College, you have access to a wealth of primary sources, many of which are available online. A selection of resources is included in the following tabs.
For a full listing of available digital collections, please refer to the A-Z list of primary source digital collections.
The general History research guide also allows you to browse collections by source type, time period, or geographical region.
Reading book reviews can be a very helpful part of identifying sources for your historiography. Databases will index reviews that appear in scholarly journals or other publications. The process below for Muscat Plus and JSTOR will be similar in other databases.
1. In the "everything" search of Muscat Plus, search for the book title, author, or topic.
2. Once you have a set of search results, expand the Source Types menu on the left side of your screen and select Reviews.
3. The remaining results should all be reviews. Select one results and scroll down to the full text availability. Click a resource listed in this section to download the PDF.
1. When in JSTOR, click Advanced Search to the right of the search box.
2. Enter your terms, searching for the book title, author, or topic.
3. Under Narrow Results, mark Review in Item Types. Click Submit Advanced Search to run your search.