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Medieval Studies   Marilyn Scoville: Subject Liaison
mscoville@smcvt.edu
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Databases Study Guides Selected Internet Sources

M = Access to St. Michael's (MIKENET) users only.


 
Databases

Historical Abstracts M
Indexing  which covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, featuring coverage of 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. 

Academic Search Premier  M
Indexing for approx. 8,050 publications (6680 peer-reviewed), with full text for approx. 4,600 (3518 peer-reviewed) of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion & theology, sociology, etc.
Linked articles are available from EBSCOhost databases to any full text managed through Electronic Journals A to Z

Expanded Academic ASAP  M
Includes abstracts or references for articles from more than 3,000 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York Times.  Full-text coverage for 1900 titles.  Included are core titles in every major academic concentration, including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences.

Iter  M
A bibliography of approximately 225,000 records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

JSTOR  M
Full text archive of over 115 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years.

Project Muse  M
Approx. 200  full text journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.  About Project Muse.

   Study Guides

George Dameron / Department of History and American Studies
http://academics.smcvt.edu/gdameron/
Includes links to Internet sources on the Middle Ages and course syllabi

History Department Homepage
http://academics.smcvt.edu/history/
Includes links to study tours, course syllabi, and history links.

Black Death: guide to research
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/mscoville/blackdeathguidetoresearch.htm

Medieval Research: Guide to Selected Resources
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/mscoville/medieval%20research.htm 
Includes tips on searching the online catalog as well as periodical databases.
Explains how to locate articles, books and reference sources in the library as well as how to evaluate and select the best resources for your research.

Step by Step Research Guide to the Black Death
http://www2.smcvt.edu/library/blackdeathalternate.htm

   Selected Internet Sources

The Great Famine and the Black Death:
http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/black_death.html

The Black Death (History of Western Civilization) http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/

The Plague and the Public Health in Renaissance Europe: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html

The Decameron Web: The Plague: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/index.shtml         

Byzantine Studies:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

The Labyrinth:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

NetSerf:
http://www.netserf.org/

Orb:
http://www.the-orb.net/

Speculum, a Journal of Medieval Studies:
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00387134.html

WWW Medieval Resources:
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html

 

 

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