Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: HUMN 4200: The Roman City Project: Scholarly Articles & eBooks

Additional Resources for Scholarly Materials

You may find most of the scholarly materials you need via the library catalog; however, you may find yourself wanting to dig a little deeper in some of the library's more specialized databases.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Offers scholarly journal articles in science and technology, the arts, medicine, education and more. Includes peer−reviewed and full-text sources, as well as 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines comprising area studies, arts, business and economics, history. humanities, law, medicine, science and mathematics, and social sciences.

Project Muse
Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. While not everything is freely available, Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

**To search for only freely available resources, enter your search term(s) in the search box on the main page. Once you receive results, limit your results to "Only content I have access to," found under "Access" on the left-hand side.**

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Find journal articles and citations covering all academic subjects

Find Scholarly Articles & eBooks

Search the Library catalog for e-books, articles, physical books and journals, and more:

Advanced Search

Some helpful tips:

Make sure you limit your search results to "Academic Journals" or "Peer-Reviewed" if you are seeking out those types of resources (select these options along the left-hand side of the catalog page).
For this assignment, try searching the catalog with keywords relevant to your topic. For example, if you are looking for information about Roman aqueducts, try searching the catalog using the words Rome OR Roman AND aqueducts. If you're looking for information about the provinces in Asia Minor, try searching using the words Rome OR Roman AND "Asia Minor."

*The operator AND makes it so you search for this AND that.

*The operator OR makes it so you search Term 1 OR Term 2 (which gives you more results!).

*Using "quotes" around a phrase ensures that you search for the phrase "Asia Minor," rather than searching for resources that talk mention the words "Asia" and "minor" separately.