Research Guides: HIST 2600: Roman Empire/Ancient World: Find Articles

How-To Video: Searching for Secondary Sources

Searching for Secondary Sources
This module will familiarize you with the abstract databases that will help you find scholarly articles for your History papers

Research Tips

AND...

When using Academic Search Premier and Historical Abstracts, be sure to use "and" between the terms. (E.g. Black death and Italy)

Quotation Marks...

When using JSTOR an AND is automatically inserted between every word. To keep words together as a phrase, use quotation marks. (E.g. "Black death" Italy)

Asterisk*

An asterisk at the end of a word can find alternate endings. (E.g. Jew* will find Jew, Jews, Jewish, etc)

Searching in Specific Journals

You can search for specific journals recommended by your professor in the library catalog.

Journal of Late Antiquity

Databases (Secondary Sources)

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new window
An index of materials covering a range of topics such as Biblical studies, world religions, church history, religion and society, and more.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the world (excluding U.S and Canada).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Searching for scholarly articles in JSTOR

Google Scholar

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.