SCA Library Links
Last updated August 2018
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa-- Jennifer Heise-- jenne.heise@gmail.com
Academic Engines:
Google Scholar scholar.google.com
Academia.edu academia.edu
Pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Agricola http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
ResearchGate researchgate.net
Citation Managers:
Zotero: zotero.com
EndnoteBasic: myendnoteweb.com
Mendeley: mendeley.com
Book Resources
Open Worldcat: http://worldcat.org
Hathi Trust/Internet Archive https://www.hathitrust.org/
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Google Books: http://books.google.com
European Digital Library: www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/c
UPenn online books page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Keeping track of Books
LibraryThing: https://www.librarything.com/
Goodreads (owned by Amazon) goodreads.com
Finding Full text:
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com and Google Scholar Button
Unpaywall (unpaywall.org)
Kopernio https://kopernio.com/
Lazy Scholar http://www.lazyscholar.org/
Open Access Button https://openaccessbutton.org/
Twitter: #icanhazpdf
www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Gardner.pdf
Twitter tags & accounts to check: #medievaltwitter @BLMedieval @caitlinrgreen @PP_Rubens
Databases to look for access to:
JSTOR, Project Muse, ScienceDirect
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Monumenta Germanica
ARTSTOR (art)
Index to Christian Art
Historical Abstracts
Creative Commons search:
For freely available images and content, https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/
Dissertations & Theses: Dissertation Express
http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb/search.html
Journals: Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/
Free Databases
AATA Online: Abstracts of Conservation Literature http://aata.getty.edu/Home
A specialized database focusing on Archaeology, art, material culture, technology and artifacts, and conservation
Covers western art from late antiquity (4th c. AD) to 2009. CEASED PUBLICATION IN 2010. Indexes books, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogs and articles. Go to International Bibliography of Art for recent materials.
Artstor: Artstor.org
Now allows you to search images from partner institutions without logging in
Digital Public Library of America: https://dp.la/
Pointers to images and other material digitized by cultural institutes across the US.
SCA Specific:
Cariadoc's Miscellany:
HTML (older version) http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html
PDF (most recent): http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/miscellany_pdf/Miscellany.htm
Larsdatter’s Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture Pages; http://www.larsdatter.com/
Stefan’s Florilegium http://www.florilegium.org/
Medieval Cookery recipe index: http://medievalcookery.com/search/search.html
Websites:
Archaeology Data Service http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ ArchSearch searches over a million archaeology records; Archives searches journals (including vols 1-50 of Medieval Archaeology full text), grey literature, websites, etc.; and under Teaching and Learning you can find items such as the Archaeology Image Data Bank.
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts http://english.ucla.edu/manuscripts/
Find digitized medieval manuscripts by title, location, author, shelfmark. Updating ceased 2013.
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts https://celt.ucc.ie//
Searchable online textbase consisting of over 1000 contemporary and historical documents relating to Irish history, culture and literature. Based at University College Cork.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/
Indexes journal articles and essays on women in the Middle Ages.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp
Online medieval and medieval related texts, divided by category. J. Halsall, editor.
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
Resources for Medieval Studies. Another huge set of links. Especially good on Islamic materials. Sponsored by Georgetown University.
Manuscriptorium: Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage http://www.manuscriptorium.com/
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/pubMnEM/
Digitized versions of medieval manuscripts from the Henry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
Medieval | European History Primary Sources http://primary-sources.eui.eu/period/medieval
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources http://www.netserf.org/
This huge gateway offers classified, searchable, and random access to a vast array of sources on all areas of Medieval studies, including many scholarly and bibliographic sites.
OEN Bibliography Database http://www.oenewsletter.org/OENDB
The Old English Newsletter Database serves as an index to scholarly material in Anglo-Saxon studies. Free registration required.
Medieval and Classical Literature Library http://mcllibrary.org/
“The Medieval and Classical Library is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."
ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
2002 version archived at: https://the-orb.arlima.net/
Full text of Medieval Studies related works and materials, textbook library, teaching resources.
Middle English Dictionary: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/
TMR: The Medieval Review scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/
Reviews of books related to medieval history and literature.
H-Net https://www.h-net.org/
Metropolitan Museum http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F
Getty Virtual Library: http://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/
VHMML https://www.vhmml.org/
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library's online manuscript collection; OLIVER is a catalog of their manuscript holdings.
Museum Directory http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/
List of museums with online presences.