Boston College Libraries

The Crusades, Hs 412.01 Professor Alizah Holstein Librarian: Leslie Homzie 617 552 1907 [email protected] http://www2.bc.edu/~homzie/

Boston College Libraries Research Guides http://www.bc.edu/libraries/research/guides/

Quest (Boston College Libraries’ Catalog)

To search for primary text material in Quest (http://library.bc.edu/F) use the following subject headings:

 correspondence  sources  pamphlets  diaries  early works to 1800  personal narratives  interviews  speeches

Other Tips: wom*n will find woman or woman Rom* will find Rome or Roman

Other Library Resources Boston Library Consortium: http://www.blc.org/library_user_services/mem_cats.html

Interlibrary Loan: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/services/interlibrary/

Boston College Libraries Databases (Browse by History) http://metaquest.bc.edu/V?func=find-db-1 Secondary Sources

Dissertations and Theses Full text Citations and abstracts to more than 2 million dissertations, 1861-present. The full text of dissertations published since 1997 is also available for download.

Expanded Academic ASAP An interdisciplinary index to journals, national news magazines.

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is an index to articles from nearly 1,200 English-language periodicals, including many of the most important scholarly journals of the 20th century.

Historical Abstracts References to books, articles, and dissertations on world history (excluding the United States and Canada).

International Medieval Bibliography Comprehensive and current bibliography of the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500) of articles in journals and miscellaneous volumes of conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Iter contains a Journals and a Books database. The Journals database is an electronic bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations are for articles, bibliographies, catalogues, editions, abstracts, and discographies.

JSTOR A digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals.

Periodicals Archives Online Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Project Muse Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals.

Web of Science Access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

WorldCat Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Primary Sources

Archives USA Provides access to :(NUCMC--National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, NIDS- National Inventory of Documentary Resources in the United States, and DAMRUS-- Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States).

Empire Online Empire Online brings together approximately 70,000 images of original manuscript and printed documents on colonial history, politics, culture and society from libraries and archives around the world. Published in five thematic sections (Cultural Contacts, 1492- 1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class, Imperialism & Colonialism, c.1607-1969).

The Gerritsen Women’s History This database covers the study of international women's history, feminism and the feminist movement. It consists of periodicals, books, and pamphlets in 15 languages.

Medieval Sources Online Offers full text of hundreds of original medieval history documents, including over three thousand pages of medieval sources translated and edited by leading medievalists.

Newspapers (Secondary and Primary Sources)

New York Times 1851-2003 Fulltext is searchable by keyword, article type, date range, and author's name. Full-page images, including advertisements, can be displayed by article or by page.

Times Digital Archives Two hundred years of "the world's newspaper of record," the Times of London is offered in searchable full text, including news articles, editorials, obituaries, and advertising.

Web Resources (Selected examples)

University of Oregon: Primary Sources http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/history/primary.html An excellent overview of Primary Source research from the University of Oregon Libraries.