Use these sources to begin your research. These will not count towards your required scholarly secondary sources.
Reference Collections
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Over 700 reference books covering a variety of disciplines and including foreign language dictionaries. Includes a concept map, which provides related subjects and noted personalities to assist beginning research.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference resources for multidisciplinary research, including: fashion, film and filmmakers, pop culture, and multicultural issues. Includes the six-volume Beachams Guide to the Endangered Species of North America.
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window Searchable online version of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art covering the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990s. Also includes The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window ProQuest Ebook Central provides ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers. To create a personal bookshelf or to access off-campus, sign in using your Emmanuel username and password. For more details on using Ebook Central explore the Proquest LibGuide.
Selected Reference Books
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowProQuest Ebook Central provides ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers. To create a personal bookshelf or to access off-campus, sign in using your Emmanuel username and password. For more details on using Ebook Central explore the Proquest LibGuide.
- Books at JSTOR This link opens in a new windowBooks at JSTOR offers more than 15,000 DRM-free, unlimited-user ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journalson the JSTOR platform.
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- Open Library, Internet ArchiveBooks are available to one borrower at a time using controlled digital lending.
To access the books, you will need to Sign Up for a Free Account.
- See also the Internet Archives Book collection
- Requesting Books from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan.
Article Databases: Ranked by Relevance
= Emmanuel Faculty, Staff & Students only
= Emmanuel Faculty, Staff & Students onlySample Searches
- ancient and Greece and (technology or manufacturing)
- Rome and (art or artwork or craftsmen)
- China and history and (society or customs or culture)
- ancient and Greece and (technology or manufacturing)
- Rome and (art or artwork or craftsmen)
- China and history and (society or customs or culture)
- Ebsco search for HIST1108Search across the following databases: Art Full Text; Academic Search Premier; Humanities International Complete; Military & Government Collection; EconLit™ with Full Text; Business Source Premier; SocINDEX with Full Text
Note: Explore including other relevant databases by clicking on Choose Databases (above the search boxes).
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA total of more than 900 full-text scholarly journal titles in an online archive beginning with the first issue of each title. The archive includes nine JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collections.
- In JSTOR, there is usually a time lag in full-text content. Use JSTOR in conjunction with our current online databases and print holdings.
- Since results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary resource providing the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than12,665 titles - with over 9,745 titles in full text. Covers more than 160 subject areas, including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more. Provides over 400 full-text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers; nearly 30,000 full-text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education; and nearly 9,000 market reports for business information for 43 industries in 40 countries.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowAll journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
- Click on the Full-Text@Emmanuel at the right of articles or the more option below the item record.
- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.
- Museum of Fine ArtsEmmanuel students, faculty and staff have free general admission to the MFA with their Emmanuel IDs.
- Smart History: The Center for Public Art History"Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history and unlocking the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible to more people, in more places, than any other publisher."
Evaluation of sources on the Internet
- Evaluation the potential sources through lateral reading of the website.
According to a study by Wineberg and McGrew (2017):
"Historians and students often fell victim to easily manipulated features of websites, such as official-looking logos and domain names. They read vertically, staying within a website to evaluate its reliability. In contrast, fact checkers read laterally, leaving a site after a quick scan and opening up new browser tabs in order to judge the credibility of the original site."
- Evaluate your sources using SIFT and SCARAB Methods (Evaluating Sources, McHenry County College)
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