LibGuides: GU-Q HIST-160: Middle East I: Databases

General Databases

Databases to get you started

These databases provide background information that can help familiarize you with the broad dates, individuals, concepts, and events related to history.

Credo Reference
Provides full-text online versions of general and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides online full-text access to hundreds of encyclopedias in all subject areas

Aditional Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Full-text publications from all academic areas of study, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI2) This link opens in a new window

See Transliteration table for Brill OnlineTransliteration table for Brill Online to see how words in Arabic & other non-roman script languages are romanized.
All Brill encyclopedias (EI2, EI3, Ency. of the Qur'an, Ency. Islamica, Ency. of Women & Islamic Cultures, Ency. of Jews in the Islamic World, etc.) can be searched at one time by selecting "all titles" on the search page; to limit your search to only one title, select "this title".
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE (EI3) This link opens in a new window

See Transliteration table for Brill Online to see how words in Arabic & other non-roman script languages are romanized.
All Brill encyclopedias (EI2, EI3, Ency. of the Qur'an, Ency. Islamica, Ency. of Women & Islamic Cultures, Ency. of Jews in the Islamic World, etc.) can be searched at one time by selecting "all titles" on the search page; to limit your search to only one title, select "this title".
Oxford Islamic Studies Online This link opens in a new window

Full list of library databases

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