Research Guides: Western European History: Secondary Sources

Western European History
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Secondary Sources for Western European History

These databases, library catalogs, and websites will help you find a broad range of secondary sources on the history of Western Europe.

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
Cambridge Histories
Covers a range of subjects focusing on history, but also includes literature, political philosophy, religion, theatre, and music.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Historical Abstracts
Index to scholarly articles covering world history (with the exception of the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present
International Medieval Bibliography
Interdisciplinary index for medieval studies, covering 450 to 1500, primarily in Europe.
Indexes journals and festscriften published 1967 to the present. Search by author, title, publication name, year, language, subject terms, geographic areas, century, repository, and more.
JSTOR
Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines.
LibrarySearch
Covers items owned by the UO Libraries, regional partners, and articles and other scholarly research materials.
Oxford Reference
Language and subject dictionaries and reference works
RAMBI: the index of articles on Jewish studies
Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
Regesta Imperii
Indexes European history from late antiquity to the Renaissance (16th century), includes archaeology, history, art, literature, music, philosophy, languages, theology, etc.
Viva: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
Bibliography of articles about women's and gender history.
WorldCat
WorldCat provides access to library catalogs from around the world. The database contains millions of bibliographic records describing books, journals, maps, musical scores, recordings, videos, manuscripts, etc.

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