LOCATING MATERIALS

Pegasus
To find books, journal titles, videos, and other materials in the UCSB library, use Pegasus.

Here are some subject headings which you may find useful:

• Nationalism - [country or region]
• Nationalism - Religious aspects - Islam
• Panislamism
• Arab nationalism
• Zionism [also Zionists]
• Religious Zionism
• Labor Zionism
• Panarabism [also Arabism]
• Pan-Turanianism
• Kemalism
• [Country or region] - History [+ chronological period]
• [Country or region] - Politics and government [+chronological period]
• Turkey - History - Tanzimat, 1839-1876
• Constitutional history - Iran
• Also use name of individuals, political parties, organizations, etc. e.g.
  • Ittihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti
  • Wafd al-Misri

  Here are some subject subheadings which usually indicate primary source material:

  • --Sources
  • --Personal narratives
  • --Autobiography, memoirs, etc.
  • --Correspondence
  • --Biography [may include transcripts or facsimiles of primary materials]
  • --Interviews
  • --Census
  • --Statistics
  • --Maps
  • --Newspapers
  • [Country]. Laws, statutes, etc.
  • [Country]. Treaties

  Melvyl
  Melvyl is the combined catalog of all ten of the University of California libraries, including UCSB. Use the exact same subject headings and subheadings in Melvyl as you use in Pegasus. Items which the UCSB library has received and not yet cataloged, will not appear in Melvyl. These "In Process" materials not only appear in Pegasus, but you may also request the item. Clicking the request button on the holdings screen triggers an order to catalog the item.

• The RLG Union Catalog (RLIN) and World Cat may be useful if you are looking for materials which do not appear in Melvyl. These union catalogs do have some overlap and both contain millions of records from libraries around the country, including the Library of Congress. Some libraries in the UK and other parts of the world are also included.

• Libdex and Libweb access library catalogues worldwide.

• MEMP A listing of all the newspapers and special pamphlet collections microfilmed by the Middle East Microfilm Project (MEMP). All films can be requested via InterLibrary Loan

• MEDOC Catalogue of Microform Projects The catalogue of resources microfilmed by the Middle East Documentation Center at the Univerity of Chicago Library for the Ottoman Microforms Project, the Persian Microforms Project, and the Arabic Microforms Project. Although this is actually a catalogue of items for purchase, awareness of the the particular documents, newspapers, and journals included in the project will be useful. Many should be available within the UC system.

• OACIS for the Middle East (Yale Univ. Library) - "A union list of serials from or about the Middle East ... [found] in libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East"

• Arabic Newspapers in the British Library - Listing of all print Arabic newspapers held in the British Library; eventually will include journals

• Digital Dissertations Indexes dissertations from over 1000 predominantly North American universities from 1861 to as recently as last semester. All citations from 1980 have an abstract. Masters theses with short abstracts are included from 1988

  INDEXES TO ARTICLES, DOCUMENTS, BOOK REVIEWS, ETC

  Online Resources UCSB's online indexes page

  The searching methods will vary from index to index, but you will almost always find "help" or "tips" screens. Listed below are the indexes of particular importance to Middle Eastern Studies

  • Index Islamicus Always the best place to start
  • ATLA Religion
  • RAMBI Index of Articles on Jewish Studies and ... Erez Israel
  • Historical Abstracts
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • OCLC ECO Journal Search
  • Index to Jewish Periodicals - call no. REF Z6367.I5
  • Middle East Abstracts and Index - call no. REF DS41.M44
  • Islamic Book Review Index 1982-1992 REF Z7835.M6179. A companion to Index Islamicus which subsumed this publication in 1993

  INDEXES TO WEBSITES

  • al-Misbah/MENALIB Index, with links, to Middle East related internet resources

  REFERENCE AND OTHER SPECIAL RESOURCES

  • Encyclopedia of Islam
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica REF DS253.E53 1982
    A free online version of Encyclopaedia Iranica- need to download special fonts before you can search
  • Encyclopedia Judaica REF DS102.8.E59 and REF DS102.8.E498 consists of 16 base volumes plus 8 yearbooks, and 2 decennials
  • The Coptic Encyclopedia REF BX130.5.C66 1991
  • Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures REF HQ1170.E53 2003
  • Governments of the Middle East A guide, with links, to Middle Eastern government websites
  • Middle East Studies Subject Page
  • Historical Dictionary of [country, region, movement]-- See Pegasus for individual titles

  HISTORICAL JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS RELATED TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE UCSB LIBRARY

  • al-Ahram 1876-1881; 1990+ MFM AN325.A3
  • Apullu 1932-1934 PJ8214.A672
  • Bayan 1897-1898 AP95.A6 .D582
  • al-Diya' 1898-1906 A95.A6 D58
  • Ha'aretz 1975+ MFM AN317.I8 I46
  • Havatselet 1863-1911 (open access, see E-journals of Middle East Interest)
  • al-Jami'ah & al-Jami'ah al-'Uthmaniyah 1899-1910 AP95.A6 J35
  • Jerusalem Post 1950-1966, 1980+ MFM AN317.I8 J46
  • al-Karmal & al-Karmal al-Jadid 1920-1941 MFM AN317.P3 K37
  • al-Manar 1898-1935 BP1.M35
  • Mir'at al-Sharq 1919-1938 MFM AN317.P3 M47
  • al-Muqtabas 1906-1917 DS41.M86
  • La nation arabe 1930-1933 DS41.N38
  • Palestine Bulletin 1925-1932 MFM AN317.I8 J46
  • Palestine Post 1932-1950 MFM AN317.I8 J46
  • Palestine Weekly 1919-1931 MFM AN317.P3 B4
  • Student Union Gazette of the AUB 1913-1932 (open access, see E-journals of Middle East Interest)
  • ha-Tsevi (ha-Or, & Hashkaf) 1884-1914 (open access, see E-journals of Middle East Interest)
  • al-Ustadh 1892-1893 DT43.U853
  • Urwa al-Wuthqa' 1884 DT107.3.U7
  • Zahra' 1924-1929 DS36.Z33
  • al-Zuhur 1910-1913 AP95.A6 Z832

  DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN THE UCSB LIBRARY

  • Documentaries
  • Feature films

  DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS IN THE UCSB LIBRARY

  
  These are documents and other writings collected from a variety of archival sources under various topics. There are many other individual primary sources available in Pegasus, Melvyl, WorldCat. See first section for some suggested subheadings leading to primary source materials
  • Arab Dissident Movements 1905-1955. 4 vols. DS62.8.A673 1996
  • Arab Gulf Cities. 4 vols. DS247.A13 A717 1994
  • A Collection of First World War Military Handbooks of Arabia, 1913-1947. 10 vols. D568.4.C65 1988
  • Gazetteer of Arabian Tribes. 18 vols. DS36.9.A1 G39 1996
  • Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, 'Oman, and Central Arabia by John G. Lorimer. 2 vols. in 6. MIL AnnexDS326.L67 1970 & 17 vols. (Arabic and English) MIL AnnexDS326.L67127 1995
  • Historical Photographs of the Middle East. 194 microfiches. ART REF DS44.5.S22 1985
  • Islamic Movements in the Arab World, 1913-1966. 4 vols. BP173.7.I7 1998
  • Israel: Boundary Disputes with Arab Neighbors, 1946-1964. 10 vols. DS119.7.I823
  • King Abdul Aziz: Diplomacy and Statecraft, 1902-1953. 4 vols. DS244.53.K56 1998
  • King Abdul Aziz: Political Correspondence, 1904-1953. 4 vols. DS244.I26 1997
  • Major Knesset Debates, 1948-1981. 6 vols. J693.P2 H55 1993
  • The Middle East Intelligence Handbooks: 1943-1946. 5 vols. DS62.M53 1987
  • Palestine and Transjordan Administrative Reports, 1918-1948. 16 vols. DS126.P29 1995
  • Palestine Boundaries, 1833-1947. 4 vols. DS119.65.P35 1989
  • Palestine: the British Mandate. Microfilm collection. Classed separately. See MES Librarian for listing of complete contents
  • Palestine: the Legal Background. Microfilm collection. Classed separately. See MES Librarian for listing of complete contents
  • Records of Jerusalem, 1917-1971. 8 vols. DS109.93.R436 2002
  • Records of the Hajj. 10 vols. BP187.3.R44 1993
  • Records of the Hijaz, 1786-1925. 8 vols. DS247.H45 R426 1996
  • The Rise of Israel. New York: Garland Press, 1987. 39 vols. Classed separately. See Pegasus under series title
  • Seeds of Conflict. Series 2: Palestine, Zionism and the Levant, 1912-1946. 6 vols. DS126.P325. See Pegasus for complete holdings.
  • The Survey of Western Palestine 1882-1888: including a Survey of Eastern Palestine 1881. 14 vols. DS108.92.S87 1998
  • Treaties and Engagements Relating to Arabia and the Persian Gulf. DS326.C62 1987

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  For further assistance, please contact the librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, Meryle Gaston.