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General Reference Works
Associations Unlimited: a searchable database of more than 400,000 associations, professional societies and nonprofit organizations worldwide.
Biography Resource Center: full-text articles from 250+ journals; 1.4 million+ Who's Who® biographies (back to 1985); links to related web sites.
Chicago Manual of Style: searchable online full-text of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Citation Linker (Find It @ Harvard): type in parts of a journal citation and find out if you have access to the full text at Harvard.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World: provides descriptions of more than 165,000 places in the world.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online: authoritative references, articles not in the print, and links to other web sites selected by Britannica editors.
Encyclopaedia Judaica: covers all aspects of Jewish history and culture in the Diaspora and in Israel from ancient times to the 20th century.
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online: over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an: English language encyclopedia covering all aspects of the Qur’an.
Europa World: The Europa World Year Book Online: information on over 250 countries & territories & profiles of 1650+ international organizations.
Global Books In Print with Reviews: 9 million+ in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming titles (s0me with book reviews) from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa.
Google Scholar: contains many research quality full-text journals; using this proxied Harvard link into Google Scholar lets you get that full-text for free (rather than having to pay for it going the regular Google Scholar route).
Harvard Libraries Web Portal: the online gateway to the library resources of Harvard University.
Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf: over 100,000 full-text searchable pages of sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe.
HOLLIS Catalog: the Harvard University Libraries online catalog.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (IESBS): presents "state of the art" materials of the social and behavioral sciences.
International Who's Who: biographical and directory data on nearly 22,300 prominent persons worldwide.
world-newspapers.com: Israeli newspapers, magazines and news sites in English.
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK): allows you to search simultaneously the holdings of many major libraries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, and the UK.
Lib-Web-Cats: a database that provides the URLs to over 4,000 web-based library catalogs worldwide.
Library of Congress Online Catalog: what it says.
LibX: a Firefox toolbar extension that allows you to quickly search the HOLLIS Catalog, E-Journal List, E- Resource List, Citation Linker, Google Scholar, and links to other search tools and library resources. This works only with Firefox 1.5 or higher.
MALMAD: the Israel Center for Digital Information Services, a consortium that provides access to online library catalogs of the Israel Library Network.
Multidata Online: provides full text from and bibliographic citations to selected newspapers and periodicals from the Arab world in Arabic, English, and French.
New York Times (1851-2003): contains all issues of the New York Times, 1851-2003, in full text/full image forms, including news, illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising.
NewsLink: gives access to web pages sponsored by national and international newspapers, newswires, magazines, broadcasters and other media-related sites.
OACIS for the Middle East: a union list of serials from or about the Middle East.
Oxford English Dictionary: an historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online: features articles, biographies, primary texts, Qur'anic materials, and books by scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.
Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection: contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
RLG Union Catalog: information for 45 million+ books, periodicals, recordings, scores, archival collections, and other materials held in libraries and research institutions.
Times Digital Archive (1785-1985): all Monday-Saturday issues of the Times, 1785-1985, in full text and full image, including news, features, editorials and commentary, advertising, pictures and illustrations. The Sunday Times is NOT included.
Transliteration Tables for non-Roman Scripts: the definitive transliteration guide for anyone who transliterates words, names, titles, or text from a non-Roman script into the Roman script.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory: a unique, current, comprehensive, and continuously updated source of information on more than a quarter of a million periodicals and serials published in the United States and throughout the world.
Webster's Unabridged (Lion): a radical and controversial departure from its predecessors, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is one of America's premier lexicographical works, containing over 450,000 vocabulary entries.
World Biographical Information System Online (WBIS Online): the most comprehensive biographical database with information on persons, families, and groups from all classes and professions, from all countries and regions of the world, from the 4th millennium BC to the 20th century.
World Factbook: produced annually by the CIA. It provides brief factual and graphical surveys of the economic, geographic and political conditions of some 267 countries, dependent areas and other entities.
World News Connection (FBIS and JPRS): provides online access to full text English translations of current non-U.S. media sources.
World of Learning: provides names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email and internet addresses, as well as contact information for over 200,000 faculty, staff and officials in over 30,000 academic institutions worldwide.
WorldCat (FirstSearch): a union catalog of books, periodicals, scores, films, etc. cataloged by over 41,000 OCLC libraries in the US and 82 other nations.
Yearbook of International Organizations Online: a searchable database of approximately 63,000 international organizations.
Bibliography Tools
Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper (from Duke University Libraries)
Endnote (link for downloading the software; requires Harvard University ID and PIN): a commercial reference management software package for managing bibliographies and references.
Using Endnote at Harvard: an HCL research guide.
RefWorks: a web-based bibliographic management program, allows users with a Harvard ID and PIN to create a personal database of citations and to integrate these sources into bibliographies, articles, etc. written with Word and other word processors.
Using RefWorks at Harvard: an HCL research guide.
Transliteration Tables for non-Roman Scripts: the definitive transliteration guide for anyone who transliterates words, names, titles, or text from a non-Roman script into the Roman script.
Transdisciplinary Resources
Academic Search Premier: a multi-disciplinary database with citations & abstracts from 4,700+ scholarly journals with full text for more than 3,600 of them.
Alt-Press Watch: a full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
British Periodicals: by 2008 British Periodicals Collection I and II together "will offer facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th - early 20th centuries."
Citation Indexes / Web of Science: a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences, social sciences and arts. You can search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest): indexes dissertations and masters' theses from most North American graduate schools as well as some European universities from 1861 to the present. Provides full text for most indexed dissertations from 1990-present.
DigiZeitschriften: provides page images and increasing full text of periodicals in Economics, English Languages, Geology, History, Law, Librarianship, Literature, Philology, the Sciences, and Sociology.
Google Scholar (Harvard PIN required): not just Google — this is full of scholarly articles using Google's search system, with the bonus that if you enter via this link Google recognizes you as a Harvard searcher... so you get full-text for free.
Harvard Geospatial Library: a catalog and repository for geospatial data files.
Harvard-MIT Data Center: Virtual Data Center: a large repository of quantitative social science data at Harvard and MIT.
Iranian Oral History Project: the personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s.
International Journal of Middle East Studies: available online from 1970 on.
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook: a listing of links to aspects of the history of Islam; also includes translations of source texts, and articles.
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook: links to sources of Jewish history on the web.
JSTOR Middle East Studies: search the full text of 16 journals in Middle East studies.
LexisNexis Academic: news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts, with international resources in French, Italian, and German.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost): full text of 2,000 journals in a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues.
MENIC (the Middle East Network Information Center): at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin -- a metasite for web resources on the Middle East.
Middle East Studies Internet Resources: a Middle East metasite hosted by Columbia University Libraries.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies: an index to research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
Multidata Online: full text from and bibliographic citations to selected newspapers and periodicals from the Arab world in Arabic, English, and French.
Anthropology, Culture, & Sociology
Anthropological Index: based on the holdings of the Anthropology Library at the The British Museum which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.
Anthropological Literature (RLG): indexes articles on archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology and linguistics, and related fields.
Anthropology Plus (RLG): bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture.
AnthroSource: the full-text of journals and newsletters published by the American Anthropological Association.
CQ Researcher: reports on a current social issue each week with approximately 12,000 word-long reports providing background information, important points to consider, charts and graphs, and a source list for further reading. Topics include public policy, public opinion, economics, education, environment, government and law.
EHRAF Collection of Ethnography (Human Relations Area File): the full text of books, periodical articles, manuscripts, and dissertations and theses on selected cultures of the world.
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966-): indexes articles from over 800 education journals as well as 13,000 documents (conference papers, research reports, state, federal, and local education documents, selected books, etc.).
Ethnic NewsWatch: an interdisciplinary, comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (IESBS): presents "state of the art" materials of the social and behavioral sciences.
JSTOR Population Studies: search the full text of 10 journals in population studies.
JSTOR Sociology: search the full text of 46 sociology journals.
Left Index Online: a broad range of literature from the political left, with primary emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship and secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS): an index to research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
PsycARTICLES: full text of articles for more than 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association.
PsycINFO (EBSCOhost): indexes and abstracts for over 1800 journals in more than 24 languages for the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines (psychiatry, education, linguistics, neurosciences, etc.).
Social Theory: when completed this source will provide access to “an extensive range of influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day.”
Sociological Abstracts (1963-): includes citations and abstracts from over 1800 journals, relevant dissertations, selected books and book chapters, and association papers, as well as citations for book reviews and other media.
Art, Architecture, Film, and Music
Art Full Text (Wilson): an index of articles from art and architecture periodicals published throughout the world with full-text for some, and indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984): cumulates citations from the printed version of the Art Index, volumes 1-32 (1929-1984).
ARTbibliographies Modern: abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism (late 19th century), up to the most recent works and trends.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) (1975-): a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities indexing 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
ARTstor: includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA): journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, historic preservation, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online): digital images and detailed descriptions for over 115,000 works of art from major museums in the United States and Canada.
Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance: contains information about 6,500 monuments and approximately 28,000 documents.
FIAF International FilmArchive Database (1972-): the main database here (the International Index to Film Periodicals) contains over 230,000 article references from more than 300 periodicals.
Film Index International: covers films from 170 countries with information on about 100,000 films and biographical details of 40,000 personalities, with references to periodical articles.
Film Literature Index (1976-2001): contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online: a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s.
Grove Music Online: an integrated music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition).
Index to Printed Music: Collections and Series: contains approximately 135,000 records searchable by multiple musical access points.
International Index to Music Periodicals: draws content from 400 international music periodicals from over 30 countries, and indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The NY Times and The Washington Post.
International Index to the Performing Arts: a multidisciplinary electronic index to the performing arts periodical literature with abstracts to current articles.
JSTOR Film Studies: search the full text of 3 film studies journals.
JSTOR Music: search the full text of 38 music journals.
JSTOR Performing Arts: search the full text of 8 journals in the performing arts.
Music Index Online: citations to articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries from over 690 international music periodicals covering a wide range of historical, musicological, and ethnomusicological topics.
Naxos Music Library: provides online streaming audio access to the entire Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogs of over 85,000 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music.
Reference Tools in Islamic Art & Architecture: a College Library research guide.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost Interface): an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600: a worldwide effort to identify and describe the world's musical sources, including manuscripts, printed music, writings about music in libraries, archives, monasteries and private collections.
Smithsonian Global Sound: an international collection of all types of recorded sound.
Yiddish Sheet Music: A Brown University Library Digital Collection: a collection of sheet music of the Yiddish-language musical stage from the 1880's to 1940's, including many photographs of composers and performers.
Business, Economics, & Finance
ABI Inform (UMI) (1971-): summaries and citations from over 1000 academic management, marketing, and general business journals, with full text available for more than 500 of these publications, including the Wall Street Journal.
Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost Interface): citations, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included here, as well as current company, industry and region reports.
CountryData.com: provides over 75 country risk-related variables including political, economic, financial and government stability.
EconLit (CSA): a bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature; includes coverage of over 600 journals as well as articles in collective volumes.
Factiva: a database of over 8,000 business and news publications, most in full text. Sources are in 22 languages, date back as far as 1969, and include trade journals, newswires, media programs, and company and stock reports.
Foreign Direct Investment Data Resources: a guide by the College Library
GDF Online (Global Development Finance): offers external debt and financial flow data for the 136 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System.
Global Financial Data: a comprehensive economic and financial time-series database covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series; includes data on stock markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500, and inflation from 1264.
Global Market Information Database: covers over 350 markets in 207 countries with information accessible in four modules: statistics, analysis, companies, and sources.
Harvard-MIT Data Center: Virtual Data Center: a large repository of quantitative social science data at Harvard and MIT.
ISI Emerging Markets: provides current, comprehensive country and company information from more than 500 sources for emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East-North Africa.
Islamic Finance Information Service (IFIS): a resource for investigating market opportunities in Islamic finance including: top news, company information, financial markets data, research reports, legal and current affairs, deal details and league tables and Sharia rulings.
International Financial Statistics Online: contains time series data from 1948 and provides international statistics on international and domestic finance.
JSTOR Business: search the full text of 79 business journals.
JSTOR Economics: search the full text of 53 economics journals.
JSTOR Finance: search the full text of 6 journals of finance.
LexisNexis Academic: news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts, with international resources in French, Italian, and German.
Mintel Reports: provides market and consumer research across multiple international markets and US categories.
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (MBS) online: United Nations' statistics updated monthly for most of the countries and areas of the world. The data is primarily economic: employment , earnings, unemployment.; trade; industrial production and price indices; finance. Various long-term economic trends and developments are featured regularly.
Orbis: a global database with information on 12 million companies.
Oxford Reference Online: Economics and Business: dictionaries and encyclopedias on business and economics published by Oxford University Press.
RGE Monitor: a news aggregator that focuses on global economic and geostrategic issues.
TableBase: focuses on companies, industries and demographics both nationally and internationally; with data from 1000+ publications, including privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, government agencies, and non-profit research groups.
Trade Data Resources: a research guide by the College Library.
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database: international trade statistics from over 130 countries collected annually by the United Nation's Statistics Division.
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB): access to hundreds of statistical series for all countries and areas of the world.
Wall Street Journal (1889-1987): the Wall Street Journal in digital format from 1890-1987.
WDI Online (World Development Indicators): statistical data from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
Data Resources
Beginner's Guide to Locating and Using Numeric Data: a research guide from the College Library.
CountryData.com: provides over 75 country risk-related variables including political, economic, financial and government stability.
Foreign Direct Investment Data Resources: a guide by the College Library.
Harvard Geospatial Library: a catalog and repository for geospatial data files.
Harvard-MIT Data Center: Virtual Data Center: a large repository of quantitative social science data at Harvard and MIT.
Inter-Governmental Data Resources: a guide by the College Library.
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (MBS) online: United Nations' statistics updated monthly for most of the countries and areas of the world. The data is primarily economic: employment , earnings, unemployment.; trade; industrial production and price indices; finance. Various long-term economic trends and developments are featured regularly.
Public Opinion Data Resources: a guide by the College Library.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Data: a guide by the College Library.
Trade Data Resources: a research guide by the College Library.
WDI Online (World Development Indicators): statistical data from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
Gender Studies
Contemporary Women's Issues: provides full text access to a variety of English-language sources concerned with women's issues in 190 countries.
Ethnic NewsWatch: an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide: a database on family and gender related topics,including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.
GenderWatch: a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
LGBT Life with Full Text: indexing and abstracts for over four hundred magazines, academic journals, news sources, gray literature, and books that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns, with some full text.
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (1995-): a database version of the bi-monthly journal, published by Taylor and Francis, provides access to abstracts from 1995.
Women's Studies International: citations and abstracts from Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Medline Subset on Women, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.
Women's Studies Database: a web site including conference announcements and calls for papers; employment listings; bibliographies, syllabi, and reading lists; film reviews; information on Congressional bills and legislation affecting women; and links to other electronic resources related to women.
Government, Law, & Political Science
AccessUN: An index of current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications including documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice.
AccessUNDP: index to reports of projects funded by the United Nations Development Programme and executed through a variety of agencies and organizations. Full texts of most reports are available in Microforms (Lamont) Microfiche S 535.
Bar-Ilan University Online Responsa Project (Taklit-shut): a full-text database of 100,000 rabbinical responsa relating to various aspects of Jewish law.
Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL): Islamic and Middle Eastern law materials on the net.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): a broad range of scholarly materials published from 1991 onwards, including"working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs.
CountryData.com: provides over 75 country risk-related variables including political, economic, financial and government stability.
Declassified Documents Reference System Online: government documents from presidential libraries, the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and a host of other agencies, covering the major domestic and international events of the post-World War II world. All were classified. Some were top secret. View a digital facsimile to see what was removed -- and what was left in.
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) Country Reports: quarterly analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in nearly 200 countries.
Finding the Law: Islamic Law (Sharia): from LLRX, an independent, one-person-produced Web journal.
Inter-Governmental Data Resources: a Harvard College Library research guide.
International Political Science Abstracts: provides abstracts of political science articles published in scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide.
ISLAW (Islamcatalogue) from the Oriental Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig: links to websites dealing with Islamic law.
Jane's Defence Magazines Library: provides full-text of Jane's defense magazine titles, including: Defence Industry, Defence Weekly, Foreign Report, International Defence Review, Intelligence Digest, Intelligence Review, Islamic Affairs Analyst, Missiles and Rockets, Navy International, and Terrorism and Security Monitor.
JSTOR Political Science: search the full text of 43 political science journals.
JSTOR Public Policy & Administration: search the full text of 11 journals in public policy and administration.
Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA): includes the MERIA Journal, MERIA News, MERIA Research Guides, MERIA Books, and Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS): an index to research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection from Cornell University Library
Military and Government Collection (EBSCOhost): cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals.
National Technical Information Service: NTIS (1964-) (EBSCOhost): archives scientific and technical reports produced by or for U.S. federal agencies. The collection is currently estimated at 3 million titles with approximately 35 percent coming from foreign sources. Over 70,000 new titles are added yearly.
PAIS International and PAIS Archive: indexes the public and social policy literature of public administration, political science, economics, finance, international relations, law, and health care.
PolicyFile: abstracts (more than half of the abstracts link to the full text documents) of domestic and international public policy issues' reports and studies published by think tanks, university research programs, research organizations (the OECD, IMF, World Bank, and the Rand Corporation), and a number of federal agencies.
Polling the Nations: a comprehensive compilation of public opinion surveys, containing the full text of more than 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations from 1986 to the present in the United States and more than 80 other countries.
Public Opinion Data Resources: a research guide from the College Library.
Public Opinion Polls: a research guide from the Kennedy School of Government Library.
United Nations Treaty Collection: includes six categories of treaty-related data: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, The United Nations Treaty Series, Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Treaty Signature Ceremonies, Titles of the Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages, and Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties.
World News Connection (FBIS and JPRS): full text English translations of current non-U.S. media sources.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975-): indexes the international serials literature in political science and its related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
History
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: provides access to digital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, with full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages.
Empire On-Line: provides access to images of original documents and printed materials relating to the British Empire in Africa, Australasia, the Americas, Oceania, and South Asia.
Historical Abstracts: a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Historical Journal: full text online from 1958 forward.
Historical Newspapers Online: three major historical resources: Palmer's Index to the Times (from 1790 to 1905 in The Times); The Official Index to the Times (taking coverage forward from 1906 to 1980); and The Historical Index to the New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922.
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook: a listing of links to aspects of the history of Islam; also includes translations of source texts, and articles.
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook: links to sources of Jewish history on the web.
JSTOR History: search the full text of 72 history journals in JSTOR.
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS): an index to research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile: provides access to a growing number of periodical, newspaper, patent and government document indexes from the US and UK.
Oxford Reference Online: History: dictionaries, companions, and encyclopaedias on history published by Oxford University Press.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007: a portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
Image Collections
AP Multimedia Archive (AccuNet): a searchable database of over 700,000 Associated Press photographs, charts and other graphics from the 1840s to the present.
ARTstor: includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online): digital images and detailed descriptions for over 115,000 works of art from major museums in the United States and Canada.
Directory to Photographs at Harvard: an online guide to the photograph collections held in libraries, archives, museums, and teaching hospitals throughout the oldest university in the United States.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online: a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost): full text of 2,000 journals in a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues.
Visual Information Access (VIA): a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard and Radcliffe.
WikiMedia Commons: a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files.
Languages & Literatures
American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures (continues Hebraica and continued by Journal of Near Eastern Studies)
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online: an index to poems in anthologies, together with 13,000 poems in full text.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: an alphabetically arranged survey of literary criticism and theory, with entries for individuals, critical topics, movements, theories, and contributions of specific countries and periods.
JSTOR Folklore: search the full text of 5 folklore journals.
JSTOR Language & Literature: search the full text of 75 journals in language and literature.
Linguistic Bibliography Online: provides bibliographical references to scholarly publications on all branches of linguistics and all the languages of the world, irrespective of language or place of publication.
Linguistics Abstracts Online (1981-): provides abstracts from more than 400 leading linguistics journals in a variety of linguistics fields covering articles written from 1985 to the present.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA): indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from over 1200 journals annually in all areas of language and linguistics.
Maagarim - Historical dictionary of the Academy of the Hebrew Language: covers thousands of Hebrew works from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the eleventh century.
Middle Eastern Literatures (continues Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures)
MLA International Bibliography / Modern Language Association (1926-) (EBSCOhost): bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present.
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (1902-1990)
Maps & Mapping
Ancient Near East Site Maps: from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Cartography and GIS Links: an HCL research guide.
Center for Geographical Analysis at Harvard: supports a wide range of scholarly research projects that apply spatial analysis. The Center has permanent professional staff who can guide and support complex projects across Harvard.
Country and Regional Map Sites: from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
Harvard Geospatial Library: a catalog and repository for geospatial data files
Harvard Map Collection page
Historical Maps of the Arab World: from www.al-bab.com
Islamic Cities Historic Maps Collection: from the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Israel's Story in Maps: from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Map Collections: of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress
Middle East Maps: from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
Palestine Maps: from the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)
MidEast Web Maps: from the MidEast Web for Coexistence (a registered non-government organization in Israel)
News Sources
Al Bawaba: a gateway to Middle Eastern sources including local information (newspapers and other media) arranged by country.
Alt-Press Watch: a full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
BBC News, World Edition, Middle East: news site.
Factiva: a database of over 8,000 business and news publications, most in full text. Sources are in 22 languages, date back as far as 1969, and include trade journals, newswires, media programs, and company and stock reports.
Facts.com: a weekly news service covering world events from major U.S., Canadian, British, Australian, and other newspapers and magazines.
Global Voices Online, Middle East and North Africa: news site.
Human Rights Watch, Middle East and North Africa: news site.
International Herald Tribune, Africa and Middle East: news site.
LexisNexis Academic: news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts, with international resources in French, Italian, and German.
Mosaic: World News from the Middle East: news site.
Multidata Online: provides full text from and bibliographic citations to selected newspapers and periodicals from the Arab world in Arabic, English, and French.
New York Times (1851-2003): contains all issues of the New York Times, 1851-2003, in full text/full image forms, including news, illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising.
New York Times, Middle East: news site.
NewsLink: gives access to web pages sponsored by national and international newspapers, newswires, magazines, broadcasters and other media-related sites.
NPR Topics: Middle East: news site.
Times Digital Archive (1785-1985): all Monday-Saturday issues of the Times, 1785-1985, in full text and full image, including news, features, editorials and commentary, advertising, pictures and illustrations. The Sunday Times is NOT included.
World News Connection (FBIS and JPRS): provides online access to full text English translations of current non-U.S. media sources.
Religion & Philosophy
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (1881-): indexes journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion. Citations cover all religions and all theological points of view.
Bar-Ilan University Online Responsa Project (Taklit-shut): a full-text database of 100,000 rabbinical responsa relating to various aspects of Jewish law.
Divinity School Library Home Page
Encyclopaedia Judaica: covers all aspects of Jewish history and culture in the Diaspora and in Israel from ancient times to the 20th century.
Encyclopaedia of Islam Online: over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (Hartford Seminary): "attempts to bring together in a single-volume compendium a state-of-the-art summary of the insights gained by the principal social sciences of religion: anthropology, psychology, and sociology."
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an: English language encyclopedia covering all aspects of the Qur’an.
Index Islamicus: a bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, from 1906 to the present. Earlier years from 1665 to 1905 are available in print.
Index to Jewish Periodicals: indexes English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.
Islam in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa: contains several thousand references to secondary literature in European languages about Islam in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, published between 1960 to 2005.
JSTOR Philosophy: search the full text of 26 philosophy journals.
JSTOR Religion: search the full text of 26 journals in the study of religion.
Maagarim - Historical dictionary of the Academy of the Hebrew Language: covers thousands of Hebrew works from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the eleventh century.
Oxford Reference Online: Religion and Philosophy: titles include: A Dictionary of the Bible, The Oxford Companion to the Bible, The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.
Philosopher’s Index: the major indexing source for scholarly research in philosophy, with bibliographic information for journal articles and major articles from anthologies and books published since 1940.
RAMBI: the index of articles on Jewish Studies: a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
Religious Statistics: Reference Books and Other Resources: (a guide created by Andover-Harvard Theological Library)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: a "dynamic reference work" written and maintained by the entire philosophy profession.
Research Contacts
For further research assistance please send queries as follow:
1. Please address initial and general queries to me, Cheryl LaGuardia. The easiest way to reach me is by e-mail: claguard@fas.harvard.edu. You can also call me at: 617-496-4226. My office is on the second floor of Widener Library, in Research Services East, just off the Atkins Reference Room.
2. Please send queries specifically involving research in individual vernacular languages to:
Arabic: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Armenian: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Berber: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Georgian: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Hebrew: the Judaica Division of Widener Library, at: juddiv@fas.harvard.edu
Kurdish: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Persian: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Turkish/Turkic: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Urdu: the Middle Eastern Division of Widener Library, at: mediv@fas.harvard.edu
Yiddish: the Judaica Division of Widener Library, at: juddiv@fas.harvard.edu