Research Guides: MESAS 254|HIST 254 From Pearls to Petroleum (Main): Articles

Popular databases

JSTOR
Access a wide variety of journal articles in the humanities and other disciplines.
Note: You may not be able to access the most current 2–7 years of certain journals—but many of these recent publications are found in Project MUSE.
Academic Search Complete
Provides indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Access broad ranging resources that include full-text journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and video content from the Associate Press etc.
Access broad ranging resources that include full-text journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and video content from the Associated Press, etc.
Scopus (SciVerse Scopus)
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
It contains over 19,500 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus has 46 million records dating back to 1823, 72% of these containing references dating from 1996.
Web of Science
A collection of multidisciplinary citation databases, including Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and more.

Specific Databases

ARTstor
Curated collections of digital images and associated data for non-commercial, scholarly, non-profit, and educational use. Over 1 million images.

Archnet Digital Library
Archnet is an global open access multimedia library on the built environment of Muslim societies.

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange
Contains materials for the study of global commodities in world history. Each commodity is documented through a wide range of manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, and more. Key themes include exploration, colonialism, trade wars, etc.
Each commodity is documented through a wide range of manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, ephemera, objects and rare books so that the scholar can explore the origins of the commodity, their first uses, the trade that developed and the ways in which these items were marketed and consumed. The project touches on themes of exploration and discovery; imperialism and colonialism; trade wars; translocation and economic geography; slavery; taste; and the evolution of global branding. The resource complements and integrates with the Empire Online database.
India, Raj and Empire: manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland
18th-19th century texts dealing with The East India Company; Society, Travel and Leisure; British Government and Administration of India; Indian Literature, History and Culture, etc.
East India Company
East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1595 to 1947.
Middle East & Africa Database (MIDA)
The Middle East and Africa Database (MIDA) is a bibliographic and fulltext database that provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America.
Brill's New Pauly Online
Contains articles on all aspects of the ancient world. Many articles are illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and photographs.
Medieval Travel Writing
Contains manuscripts of European travel writing dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries culled from libraries around the world. Topics include geography, exploration, trade, literature, and the new field of medieval postcolonial studies.
PERSEUS Digital Library
Contains resources for the study of humanities. Includes literary and historical collections ranging from the Archaic and Classical Greek world to the English Renaissance to the American Civil War,. Also contains Greek, Latin, Italian, and Arabic language resources.