HIST 4010

Renaissance Reference Books

The Brandel Library does have a collection of some Renaissance source materials. To find these, you can follow the steps below:

1. Click on the Library Catalog
2. Click on the Guided Keyword Search Link
3. Enter Renaissance into the first box.
4. Enter Sources into the next box.
5. You can also add other topic words in the 3rd search box, though you should be careful not to make your search too specific.
6. Click on the Search button.
7. After doing a search in the Brandel Library Catalog, you might also try to click the Repeat search in All ILCSO Libraries link at the top of the screen, to see if there are more items in other Illinois libraries.

This is very similar to finding materials in the Brandel Library Catalog.

1. Click on WorldCat (from the Databases A-Z page)
2. Enter Renaissance into the first box.
3. In the box next to Renaissance, select Subject from the pull-down menu.
4. Enter Sources into the next box.
5. In the box next to Sources, select Subject from the pull-down menu.
6. You can also add other topic words in the third box.
7. Click on the Search button.
8. Look through the results.  Remember that you can request many of these books through interlibrary loan.

JSTOR
is a full-text database containing the complete runs of 117 core scholarly journals in fifteen different disciplines including Anthropology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Political Science. You will not be able to search the most recent years of the journals; however they will go back to the earliest volumes.

Project Muse
is a full text database that contains recent articles published in the humanities, arts, and social sciences disciplines.

Academic Search Premier
indexes popular and scholarly periodicals in a variety of subject areas across disciplines from the sciences, humanities, current events, and fine arts.

Wilson Select Plus
is a database of all full-text articles from over 1,600 sources in the science, humanities and other interdisciplinary fields.

Subject Specific Databases

ATLA
covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. It contains abstracts and some full-text articles.

MLA
indexes articles about literature, languages, linguistics, folklore and related topics.

RILM Music Abstracts
indexes articles about music. There are summaries of the articles, but no full-text.

1. go to www.northpark.edu/library and click on Databases/Articles in the column on the left.
2. Click on Databases A-Z
 

Try selecting the Databases by Subject link instead if you would like to see other databases for your particular topic.

This is a good place to begin looking for fulltext primary source documents. There are also helpful secondary sources on the main page.

This is a good site to find information on exhibits, where to find primary sources, and some helpful secondary source material.

The websites pulled up by this internet search engine have all been vetted by scholars and librarians and therefore tend to be trustworthy.