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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present.
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Index Islamicus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam.
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JSTOR
Full online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, etc.
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OmniFile Full Text Mega (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences.
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
An index with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present.
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Index Islamicus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam.
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WorldCat (OCLC / Firstsearch)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ...
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Primary Sources
Global Missions and Theology (Gale)
Contains documents from and about missionary activity in the United States during the 19th Century. Includes reproductions of personal narratives, organizational records, and biographies of churches, church leaders, and missionaries. Also contains material on missionary activities in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the Sandwich Islands.
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Reference Information
Bibliographic Index
Online access to Bibliographic Index is no longer available. Print volumes for 1937-2008 (v.1-48) are available in Carrier Library. Please stop by the public service desk for assistance with retrieval.
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Carrier Library - Stack 2a
Blackwell Reference Online - History (Blackwell)
A collection of full-text reference books in history.
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Credo Reference (Credo Reference)
Search over 500 reference titles using Credo.
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Guide to Reference (ALA)
A selective guide of reference sources, organized by academic discipline...
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Oxford Reference Online (Oxford University Press)
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects.
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Reference Universe (Paratext)
Search most of JMU's reference collection for background articles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.
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