InfoGuides: Core Sources in Middle Eastern and African History: Find Secondary Sources

Core Tools

The gold standard of historical scholarship remains the monograph. Books about a single subject published by university presses are typically the culmination of years of scholarship on a topic. Use library catalogs to find these materials.

University Libraries Catalog: Search for books, journals, and media available at the Mason Libraries.
WRLC Catalog: Search for books, journals, and media in research libraries in the Washington, DC area.
Library of Congress Catalog: Search the collections at the Library of Congress.
WorldCat: Search for books and media in libraries around the world.
CRL: Search for newspapers, journals, documents, and archives of the Center for Research Libraries. Mason is a member of this International Consortium of Research Libraries which provides access to a host of research collections via ILL and some online sources.

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature from 1955 to present (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America. Note: with full-text links to 420,000 journals.
Essay and General Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Citations to essays and articles in collections of essays in the humanities and social sciences.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Covers 8 Centuries (1900-1984) of essays, annuals and serial publications from the 20th Century.

Selected Specialized Resources

Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Cambridge University Press journals and ebooks across all academic disciplines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Offers full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's university presses and scholarly societies.
Taylor and Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Search, browse, and access the full text of more than 2,000 journals published by Taylor & Francis covering the humanities, medicine, the social sciences, science, and technology.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to: the full-text of nearly 1500 journals; the table of contents and abstracts of print books and reference works; as well as some full-text access to e-books. Subject areas include the sciences, social sciences, business, education, law, computer science and technology.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 1,700 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected items from over 250 scientific and social sciences journals from 1975 to the present. Part of Web of Science. Use the dropdown editor labeled "Editions" to select Arts & Humanities Citation Index in the search box.
Humanities and Social Science Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 This link opens in a new window
Offers a wide range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Content includes indexing to journals and specialized magazines, and includes citations to book reviews. Coverage dates range from 1907 to 1984.
Web of Science: Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. Coverage: 1890-1982.

Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
Latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, with access to previous edition.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 300 Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference works. Texts are updated after new editions of the print book are published.
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Offers exclusive, authoritative research guides developed by scholars and librarians worldwide to address a variety of subjects, including African Studies, Anthropology, Atlantic History, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Criminology, Education, International Law, International Relations, Latin American Studies, Management, Music, Political Science, and Sociology.