History: Medieval
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog:  Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat:  Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• Historical Abstracts: A guide to content covering the history of the world from prehistory to the present (EXCLUDING North America).
• JSTOR:  Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, and Music.  Journals are not current, most having a "moving wall" or "embargo" of three to five years, depending on publication.

Other Guides

• General History Guide

Reference

• Medieval Studies Titles in Reed Library's Reference and Circulating Collections
• Oxford Reference: Includes over 175 subject reference works.

Other Tools

• Medieval Studies Research Guide: From Yale University
• The Labyrinth: Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
• The Voice of the Shuttle covers all periods of history. Digitized video collections were recently added.
• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. A cooperative effort on the part of scholars includes primary sources, an internet reference shelf, and collections of links to other pages and sites of interest to medievalists.