Primary Databases & Article Indexes

International Medieval Bibliography
Also Known as: IMB
You will need to click on the "enter database" button to get to IMB. The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), the world's leading bibliography of Medieval Studies and an essential ...   [more]
Holdings: 1967-
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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    Web of Science Tutorials
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Important Databases & Article Indexes

Abbreviationes Online: Medieval Abbreviations on the Web
Abbreviationes is designed for use in both learning and teaching medieval Latin paleography, comprised of over 70,000 entries containing a total of 80,098 references to manuscripts....   [more]

Acta Sanctorum
A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, this database contains the complete printed text of the Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societe des Bo...   [more]
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Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
Also Known as: ACLL
A full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 A.D., spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, p...   [more]

Aristoteles Latinus Database
Also Known as: ALD
Complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle, constituting the main tools for the study of science and philosophy in the Middle Ages....   [more]

ARTFL
The ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction p...   [more]
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A&HCI (WOK Web of Science)
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Also Known as: American Theological Library Association Serials, Atlas Serial Collection
Combines the ATLA Religion Database with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1949-
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    Journal title list from www.atla.com

Boletin bibliografico de AHLM
Also Known as: Asociacion Hispanica de Literatura Medieval
The Asociacion Hispanica de Literatura Medieval (AHLM) fosters the study of the medieval literature of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula. The organization has published its bibliographic bulletin...   [more]
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Brepolis Latin
Includes a cross-platform search tool to search across the following databases: Archive of Celtic Latin Literature; Aristoteles Latinus Database; Library of Latin Texts A; Library of Latin Texts B; an...   [more]
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British History Online
A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles." Includes sources for parliamentary, ecclesiastical and ...   [more]
Holdings: Access to freely available content only.

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
A project of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA...   [more]
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Chaucer Bibliography Online
This bibliography includes Chaucer studies from 1975 until the present...   [more]
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Cross Database Searchtool for Latin Databases
This search tool allows the user to search simultaneously various Latin full-text databases, namely the Library of Latin Texts Series A, Library of Latin Texts  Series B, Monumenta Germaniae Histori...   [more]

Database of Latin Dictionaries - (DLD)
The DLD project currently make available ten Latin dictionaries including: Blaise - Patristic (Dictionnaire latin-frangais des auteurs chritiens, 1954, 1967, 2005), Firmini Verris Dictionarius (Dict...   [more]

Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus
Also Known as: DOE Corpus
Fulltext of all surviving Old English material, excluding some variant texts. Texts have been divided into meaningful units, usually editorial sentences. Units are retrieved through string, boolea...   [more]

Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts with contributions from multiple libraries including the University of Pennsylvania Rare Books and Manuscripts coll...   [more]
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Dscriptorium
Portal site listing links to manuscript digitization projects....   [more]
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Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database
Searchable database of lives of 8-10th century Byzantine saints. Some records provide links to fulltext online works while others only provide a citation to the relevant issue of Bibliotheca Hagiograp...   [more]
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Dyabola Project
Also Known as: Dyabola Literature Database, Archdologische Bibliographie (aktualisierte Version des Realkatalogs), Datenbank der attischen Grabreliefs des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Fr, hgeschichte Europas (RGK), 1992-2006,Eurasienbibliographie des Deutschen Archdologischen Instituts, Projekt Dyabola
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Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Also Known as: Medieval Feminist Index
The Index aims to become a reliable guide to the scholarship on women and gender during the Middles Ages, providing timely coverage, a wide range of publications indexed on a regular basis, and a thor...   [more]
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Glossaries of the Medical Works of Maimonides
Theis Arabic-Hebrew-English glossary and the Hebrew indices to Maimonides' On Poisons and the Protection against Fatal Drugs are based on the glossary of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translatio...   [more]
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Handrit.is
Icelandic medieval literature collection of images of manuscripts and books published before 1901....   [more]
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Index of Medieval Art
Also Known as: Index of Christian Art
Text-only database indexes thematic and iconographic content of early Christian and medieval art. The ICA locates an iconographic subject and provides extensive tabular description of the individual w...   [more]
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Index to the Volumes of the Rolls Series
A listing of all the volumes in the Rolls Series, which is described below under the heading Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi scriptores. Each listing provides an abstract that frequently describes the ...   [more]
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Iter Italicum
- from ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
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    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)
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L'Annee Philologique
Also Known as: Annee philologique
Current scholarship in Classical Studies (including over 1,500 journals and 500 articles in collections and conference papers)....   [more]
Holdings: 1949-present

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
The Schoenberg Database is itself a work in progress. It provides data on medieval manuscript books produced before 1600. The information is drawn from auction and sales catalogs, inventories, catalog...   [more]
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Library of Latin Texts LLT-A - (formerly CLCLT)
CLCLT is a major database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It cove...   [more]
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    Quick Guide to Searching the Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)

Library of Latin Texts LLT-B
Serves as a supplement to LLT-A and gathers Latin texts of all genres and periods, such as chronicles, medieval saints lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and sci...   [more]

Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
Also Known as: MEMSO
Resource for the study of Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800), including key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history...   [more]

Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance
Also Known as: MESA
MESA is a federation of digital medieval resources....   [more]
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Medieval Family Life
A database of the Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers, containing full-color images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full-te...   [more]

Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
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Middle English Compendium
"The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English ...   [more]
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Monastic Matrix
A repertory of profiles of women's religious communities that existed between 400-1600 C.E....   [more]
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Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Also Known as: eMGH, MGH
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Oxford Handbooks Online: Literature
Includes all Oxford handbooks in Literature, searchable online across volumes and topics, both as complete works or as individual chapters. ...   [more]
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Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855,...   [more]
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Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
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Taxatio Database
A taxatio is an assessment for taxation and the taxatio with which this database is concerned is often called the Pope Nicholas IV taxatio because it was carried out on the orders of that pope. For ne...   [more]
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The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides: Glossaries and Indices
This site, based at the Martin-Buber-Institute fur Judaistik at the University of Cologne provides on-line access to the glossaries and indices of the following medical works by Moses Maimonides, both...   [more]
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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Online
Also Known as: TLL Online, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Online
Online version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL), a comprehensive, ongoing scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times through AD 600. TLL is based on an archive of about 10 mil...   [more]
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Translated Texts for Historians E-Library
Also Known as: TTH E-Library , Translated Texts for Historians
Fully searchable scholarly translations from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian and Armenian of texts published between 300 and 800 AD; from late antiquity to the early middle ages. ...   [more]
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Ut per litteras apostolicas
Series of registers and letters of the popes from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, preserved in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano in Rome...   [more]

Vetus Latina
Also Known as: Bible Versions of the latin fathers
You will need to click on the "enter database" button to get to Vetus Latina. Pre-Vulgate Bible versions of the Latin Church Fathers. Because there are a limited number of extant manuscripts that hap...   [more]

Related Databases & Article Indexes

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

ATLA Religion Database
Covers all religious traditions; strongest coverage is for materials dealing with the Judeo-Christian tradition. While about half of the material included is in English. Includes materials published...   [more]
Holdings: 1949 to the present. Updated two times a year.

Bibliography of British and Irish History
Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 5...   [more]

CANTUS
Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical Office....   [more]
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Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie Online
Also Known as: Dictionary of German Biography
This online edition of Dictionary of German Biography (DBE) provides information about people from all aspects of public life: men and women from the entire German-speaking area from the time of the v...   [more]

Digital Index of Middle English Verse
Also Known as: DIMEV
The DIMEV provides transcriptions of the first two and last two lines of each witness of each Middle English verse text....   [more]
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
ACCESS NOTE: 5 concurrent users

International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

Index Islamicus
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world in general, including Muslims in Africa and Asia and major Muslim minorities worldwide. Topics covered inc...   [more]
Holdings: 1906-present.

J.-P. Migne's Patrologia Graeca
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Graecae, published between 1857-1866. To access the contents, click on the links on the Tables of Content a...   [more]
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Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte Online
Also Known as: Jahresberichte f, r deutsche Geschichte
Includes 200,000 entries, 1986-. ...   [more]
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Literature Online Reference Collection
Also Known as: Literature Online Reference Resources
A collection of major literary reference works, seachable individually or as a group....   [more]

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Philosopher's Index
Also Known as: Philosophers Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics,...   [more]

Proquest One Literature (formerly Literature Online - LION)
Also Known as: LION
LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. Separate databases are English Poetry (1100-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), African-American ...   [more]
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    Literatire Online Premium

RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI, the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies, is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish Studies and the study of the Land of Israel (Erets Israel), arranged by subjec...   [more]
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Also Known as: RILM Retrospective, RILM Comprehensive
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]
Holdings: Updated monthly.

Sexbiblio
Also Known as: Bibliography of the history of western sexuality / 1700-1945
A selective index of non-belletristic primary and secondary literature on the history of sex and sexuality in Europe, the United States, and Canada, 1700-1945. Also includes selected titles in ancient...   [more]
Holdings: 1700-1945
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
Also Known as: tlg
The TLG was founded in 1972 to digitize the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. It now includes over 6,500 works by over 1,800 authors and is fully searchable online...   [more]