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Periodicals Overview
Periodicals include popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. These may contain reviews, news, or longform essays. Remember, you can always contact us to help find what you need. Below, we have included both print periodicals and databases collection large numbers of online journals in Middle Eastern Studies research.
Periodicals Databases
These databases allow you search hundreds of periodicals all at once, or browse by title.
Here are databases that hold a wide swath of general interest magazines and newspapers:
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary, full-text academic journals. Includes peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and much more.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some of which date back to the 1800s. Supports such disciplines as biological sciences, business and economics, education, history, language and literature, mathematics and statistics, music, political sciences and sociology.
*Please note that issues from the last 3 to 5 years for the majority of JSTOR's journals are not available.
Below are a few subject-specific databases:
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts the research literature of modern (1450d- ) world history (excluding the United States and Canada, see America: History and Life).
- International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
This database is limited to three users at a time. Please be sure to log out of your session and close your browser when you are finished.
Provides a current bibliography for over 4,500 journals (as well as conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogs) used for research and teaching on the Middle Ages (c. 300-1500). - Iter Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700)
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