European Travelers, 1400 - 1800
A Select Bibliography of Online Resources
History 498
Online Indexes and Guides
Early English Books Online (1475-1700) From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700).
English Short Title Catalogue (1473-1843) Describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
Historical Abstracts (1954+) Covers the world's scholarly literature in history. Includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, except for the United States and Canada.
JSTOR Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology.
Humanities Abstracts (2/1984+) Indexes articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications, language, literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc.
ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance A newly incorporated, non-profit research project to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and, eventually, to the Middle Ages (400-1500), by creating online bibliographies.
International Medieval Bibliography Online Index to journal articles and miscellaneous publications (conference proceedings, essay collections) on the Middle Ages published worldwide starting in 1967. Includes citations on over 300,000 articles on the Middle Ages in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Periodicals Contents Index (1770-1990/91) PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
Selected Internet Sites
Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/)
Yahoo is my search engine of choice when I begin an Internet Search. Its History sections are excellent. Because of its subject and hierarchical structure, it is the closest to a Library of the Internet.
Eurodocs (http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/)
The following links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries (and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). No guarantee of accuracy is implied or assumed, particularly for remote links over which the webmaster has no control.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html)
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is organized as three main index pages, with a number of supplementary documents. Each individual section is still large - an organizational goal here is to avoid incessant "clicking" to get between pages and to information.
The Labyrinth (http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html)
The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.
Western Civilization: Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation (http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.html)
This is a large somewhat chaotic mega-site that has a great deal of interesting links worth pursuing. A good example of the successes and excesses of individual Internet sites.
If you have questions concerning these sources, please contact Edward Oetting at: edding@asu.edu
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
Political Science/History Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 4579
edding@asu.edu
