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| A Cross-Database Search | Search most of the databases the library gets through EBSCO. Does not include all databases. Results may be excessively high (or weirdly low)– use with caution. |
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| AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature | A specialized database focusing on Archaeology, art, material culture, technology and artifacts, and conservation. (Free website; Requires free registration.) |
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| ARTstor | ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates. |
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| ATLA Religion Database | A comprehensive reference tool for religious and theological scholarship 1949 to the present, which also includes full text of the entire runs of a core collection of more than 50 English-language scholarly journals. The database consists of more than 990,000 records in over 30 languages from 1,400 journals and 14,000 multi-author works. |
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| Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages | Encyclopedia covering the 5th to the 15th century. |
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| General Religion Search | Search ATLA, Old Testament Abstracts, New Testament Abstracts, and Index Islamicus with one search. |
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| Google Scholar | This free, interdisciplinary resource indexes the available text of scholarly journal sites and scholarly website collections on the Internet, and allows citation searching. |
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| Historical Abstracts | Index of journal articles, books and dissertations on world history, excluding US and Canadian history, since 1450. |
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| Index Islamicus | This database, produced by Cambridge University Library, indexes articles, essays, and books on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world. |
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| International Medieval Bibliography Online | Indexes scholarly articles, essays and reviews published from 1967 to the present on the Middle Ages, from a variety of disciplines. |
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| JSTOR | Full text database of over 300 journals; generally does not contain most recent materials. Most journals lack the last several years, but holdings are very deep, with many journals running back more than a hundred years. |
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| MLA Bibliography (Modern Language Association) | Indexes scholarly materials in journals and essay collections on literature and language, 1926 to present. Core Database for English and Language Studies. |
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| Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) | ||
| Philosopher’s Index | Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields, 1940-present. |
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| WorldCat | A database of all the books and other items cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Click “borrow this item from another library” to request an item via Interlibrary Loan. |
Web Sites
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Archaelogy Data Service
ArchSearch searches over a million archaeology records; Archives searches journals (including vols 1-50 of Medieval Archaeology full text), grey literature, websites, etc.; and under Teaching and Learning you can find items such as the Archaeology Image Data Bank.
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Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Search for online digitized medieval manuscripts by title, location, author, shelfmark, etc.
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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Indexes journal articles and essays on women in the Middle Ages.
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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Online medieval and medieval related texts, divided by category. J. Halsall, editor.
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Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Resources for Medieval Studies. Another huge set of links. Especially good on Islamic materials.
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Manuscriptorium Building Virtual Research Environment for the Sphere of Historical Resource
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Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
Digitized versions of medieval manuscripts from the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
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medieval | European History Primary Sources
Links to Primary Sources in Medieval Hisotry
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NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
This huge gateway offers classified, searchable, and random access to a vast array of sources on all areas of Medieval studies, including many scholarly and bibliographic sites.
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OEN Bibliography Database
The Old English Newsletter Database serves as an index to scholarly material in Anglo-Saxon studies. Free registration required.
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Online Medieval and Classical Library
Full text of important works in Medieval and Classical literature.
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Online Medievale and Classical Library
“The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.”
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ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Full text of Medieval Studies related works and materials, textbook library, teaching resources,
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Primary Sources- Sondiata and Mansa Musa on the Web
Primary Sources on medieval West African History
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TMR: The Medieval Review
Reviews of books related to medieval history and literature.
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Vivarium Search: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Go to Browse and choose Manuscripts or other collections to see what materials are available.
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Writing in College – A Short Guide to College Writing
From the University of Chicago

