Finding Articles Written by Historians
- Iter: Bibliography This link opens in a new windowA bibliography of more than 1.3 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
- Opac RegestaThis is a great site to go to for upper level medieval studies courses, where you have your topic thought out.
- Medieval Digital Resources"MDR is a curated database of peer-reviewed digital materials for the study of the Middle Ages," kept up by the Medieval Academy of America. It has a combination of peer reviewed works, primary sources, and multimedia.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBest database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
Finding Books
- Iter: Bibliography This link opens in a new windowA bibliography of more than 1.3 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.
- Medieval Sources BibliographyA database collecting sources on the Middle Ages, with good filtering options for subject and document type.
- WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowWorldCat includes records for books, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books and music, electronic books, sheet music, genealogical references, cultural artifacts, digital objects, Web sites and much more. Contents from Milne Library and other libraries worldwide in over 470 languages.
Useful Tools for Scholars
- MEMSLib: Medieval and Early Modern Studies LibraryThis is "a digital library which brings together open-access online resources for students and researchers of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
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MEMSLib is an initiative from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. This student-led project developed out of [a] shared desire to support academic peers and colleagues during the Covid-19 pandemic."
