Provides full-text encyclopedia articles, primary source documents, maps, images, and timelines relating to Islamic studies. Also contains two full-text interpretations of the Qur'an and a concordance. Articles cover the history, peoples, beliefs, individuals, and cultures that constitute the world of Islam.

Provides full-text access to over 240 reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, etc., in various fields including art, law, literature, social sciences, and technology. Formerly known as Xrefer Plus.

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Provides access to biographical sources on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

For locating books, journals, videos, and electronic resources held at Tri-College libraries. For delivery within the Trico use the "Request" option for one or two day turnaround. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.

Start with a general Keyword search, e.g. "middle east travel literature", or a Subject search for an author or key work.

Subject searches can include:

• author names: "herotodus" or "khalidi, rashid"
• title: "nathan the wise"
• time/place/event descriptors: "ottoman empire" or "crusades"
• genres and categories: "romanticism"

Subdivisions of subjects can be very valuable.

• criticism & interpretation
• history & criticism
• bibliography

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

The books and articles you need for your research may not be available within the Tri-colleges. We have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.

JSTOR contains the full text of scholarly journal articles in many subject areas from their inception through three or five years ago.

 

• Type your search terms in the search box.  The basic search screen behaves like a Google search; “AND” is not needed.  Example: crusades holy war chansons de geste.  Then click Search.
• For more control over search results, try an Advanced Search.  You can type your search terms in the “All of these words” box, and limit by year, article type, and discipline.
• Browse the list of matching articles.  They are ordered from most to least relevant.
• Click Print when you get to an article you like, so that you can download the full PDF instead of looking at the pages one at a time.

ProQuest Research Library provides indexing, abstracts and many full-text articles from 1,700 academic periodicals in all subjects.  Articles from 1971 through today.

 

• Enter your terms, with one concept on each line. You can enter related terms on a single line, connected with “or”: france OR french. 
• By default, you’ll be searching the titles and abstracts of the articles; this will bring you more focused results.  If you aren’t finding enough articles, you can search the full text by clicking the down arrow next to “Citation and abstract,” and change the selection to “Citation and document text.”
• Limit search to “Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed” to retrieve articles from scholarly journals.

This website provides biographical information on various painters who featured "orientalist" images in their work.  It also provides links to the images of many paintings.

Overview of Orientalist painting from the Met's "Timeline of Art History" series.  Provides a detailed background essay and links to many paintings.

The changing maps of the Middle East on a millenia-long time line.