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This database provides access to art and architectural history scholarship by making key backlists and out-of-print titles on a wide variety of subjects more broadly available and more widely discoverable. The platform also permits professors to create course packs for students. The collection includes content from other university and museum publishers (Yale University Press, Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT Press, Harvard Art Museums, and Yale University Art Gallery).
Bibliographic information and citations to scholarly articles from expertly curated Arabic journals in Web of Science. ARCI is powered by Web of Science and funded by the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB). Search in Arabic or English.
Part of the Bloomsbury Medieval Studies collection, Medieval Clothing and Textiles provides access to the entire back catalogue of Boydell and Brewer's market leading interdisciplinary Medieval Clothing and Textiles annuals. Interdisciplinary in approach, it features work from the fields of social and economic history, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literary and non-literary texts, and language, while experimental reconstruction of medieval techniques or artifacts will also form a particular focus. The annuals are available for reading in full text, including all tables and images.
JSTOR has generously opened up many of their Journals and Primary Source collections. While much of the open content overlaps with our licensed entitlements, there is still a large amount of newly available material available to our users.
In particular, access to many of the primary source collections (World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants) is now available.
MEES provides a weekly analysis of energy, financial, geopolitical, and economic developments in the Middle East and North Africa. The Web/Data Portal provides access to newsletter articles, newsletter archives (2012-present), charts, and maps.
Password Required for archives access (pre-2012): Ask at the reference desk or email us from your Georgetown email account for login information.
Digitized archive of five newspapers from the Middle East and North Africa: al-Akhbār (االخبار ,Lebanon, 2006-2019) al-Dustūr (الدستور ,Jordan, 1967-2000) al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية ,Egypt, 1962-1986) al-Riyāḍ (الرياض ,Saudi Arabia, 1972-1996) Filasṭīn (فلسطين ,Israel/Palestine, 1956-1967)
How do I do research with primary sources? Learn with over 150 case studies of scholars using primary sources in their research, 60 how-to guides, and video interviews about using specific types of sources, ethical considerations, and more -- plus a curated "practice collection" of 350 primary sources from a wide variety of libraries and archives.
