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:


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


Bibliography of the History of Art  http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=BHA

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:

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


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