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Middle Eastern History Subject Guide

Research Databases


(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)

Historical Abstracts


Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts is the leading electronic bibliography for historical study with indexing for more than 2,000 journals. In addition to key historical journals from virtually every major country Historical Abstracts includes a selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history.
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JSTOR


JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago.
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RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies


A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel. The main criterion for inclusion in the bibliography is that the article be based on scientific research, or contain important information for such research.
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Reference Materials



Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East

- DS43 .E53 1996
A 4-volume encyclopedia with nearly 4,000 articles with bibliographies. Covers topics such as religion, political and military affairs, economics, literature, and the arts during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

- DF521 .O93 1991
Covers all aspects of Byzantine history and civilization from the 4th to 15th centuries in three volumes, with bibliographies for each entry.
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Web Sources



Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library


A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Edited by T. Matthew Ciolek.
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Periodicals



ejournal locator (SFX)


The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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History Subject Guide Librarian


Schemper, Lugene

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