Selected Reference Materials

• Medieval England: an encyclopedia
  Reference DA129 .M43 1998
• New Catholic Encyclopedia
  Reference BX841 N44 2003
• The New Cambridge medieval history
  Reference D117 .N48 1995
• The Encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged
  Reference D21 .E578 2001
• Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
  Reference DG270.B86 2002
• The Illustrated History of the World
  Reference CB69.2 R62 1999
• Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
  Reference CB311.E54 2002 v.1 – 3
• The Romantic Age: British Culture 176-1832
  Reference DA485.O94 1999
• The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  Reference DF521.093 1991 v.1-3
• Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
  Reference DE5.L29 1999
• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
  Reference CB361.E52 1999
• Encyclopedia of World History
  Reference HC 102 G35
• Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
  Reference D21.E578 2001

Finding Journal Articles

From the Library's home page, select RESEARCH then ARTICLE INDEXES & DATABASES to access the following select databases.
To access these databases from off campus, you must go through the Off-Campus Log-In.

Selected databases

• America History and Life
• Expanded Academic
• Historical Abstracts
• MLA International Bibliography
• Periodicals Index Online
• Alternative Press Index
• JSTOR
• International Medieval Bibliography
• Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance 1843-present
• Project Muse
• WorldCat

Newspapers

• Historical Newspapers Online
• Los Angeles Times (Current:1985-present)
• Los Angeles Times (historical: 1881-1976)
• New York Times (Current:1999-present)
• New York Times (historical: 1857-1999)
• Wall Street Jounnal historical (1889-1986)

Primary and Archival Sources

• The Library of Congress European Reading Room
  
• Additional Primary Sources Online...
  Locating resources for the American and European perspective.

Open Access Web Sources

• Eurodocs
• Avalon Project at Yale
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• The Labyrinth: Sources for Medieval Studies

Search Strategies
When available use the advance search function since this gives you all the search options available for each database. You will need to think about the terms you will use, how to combine them, and more importantly, the time period.

• Use the " " to search a specific phrase as it appears on the document, (e.g. "feudal system", " middle ages","dark ages".)
• Use OR to combine terms when either one will do: roman empire or holy roman empire
• Use AND to force the results to have both terms: roman civilization AND greek civilization
• Most databases let you truncate by using a symbol to get other letters: cultur* gets you cultural , culture, culturalise...
• The truncation symbol can be a *, ?, ! or other symbols depending on the database

The UC-elinks record will indicate in what format these titles electronic or print copy. If the article is not available electronically, you will need to get the Call Number and location in order to find the particular periodical in the library.

• Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with ..." The Journal of American history      Main Lib E1 .J5
• Search Type: "Journal Title Begins with..." Minnesota history      Main Lib F601 .M52

Use Pegasus to find books on your topic. The UCSB catalog will also tell you if the library has a subscription to the journals you need. More importantly the catalog record contains the call number, location,and availability of the journals, books and other library materials. You will need these data to track down the items you want in the library