Getting Started
This guide contains resources that pertain to European History. It should be used in conjunction with guides to associated subjects as they may also contain relevant resources.
Key Resources
Between them, these three bibliographic indexes cover the entire course of the history of Europe. They are listed in reverse chronological order.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: history and life.) Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide.
[Coverage: 1967-present] - International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) This link opens in a new windowProvides the most comprehensive, current bibliography of international scholarly literature in Medieval Studies available.
[Coverage: 1967-present; updated quarterly] - L'Année Philologique: Bibliography of the Classical World This link opens in a new windowThis is the major bibliographic index for Classical studies, including art, history, philosophy, literature and more. Use the hard copy edition of the Annee Philologique to search for material published before 1949. It is located at Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Z7016.A1 A5
[Coverage: 1949-current]
Additional Bibliographies
Resources in this box are listed/grouped by relevance, breadth and chronology.
- Francis This link opens in a new windowThis database is the combined archive of two bibliographic indexes, Pascal and Francis. They provide multidisciplinary and multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences. Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports. It was produced and is now hosted as an open access resource by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
[Coverage: 1972-2015] - Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
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The Atlantic History section is a collection of annotated critical bibliographies assessing sources and research in this discipline. Other sections of the Oxford Bibliographies, including, Renaissance and Reformation, Medieval Studies, Childhood Studies, Military Studies, and more will also contain pertinent material. - European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) This link opens in a new window"This database contains the data of two former EBSEES databases, one for 1991-2000, the other for 2001-2006. The new unified database with about 85.500 titles has been developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris. For the years 1975-1990 EBSEES is available in printed form only. Work on adding records to EBSEES ended in 2007, and no further editing will take place after December 2007. The end date for each country’s contribution varies."
[Coverage: 1991-1997]
- Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender IndexFeminae identifies and indexes articles, book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality and gender in the Middle Ages.
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts 400 journals pertaining to all branches of the military and government; full text is available for close to 300 titles, including some U.S. government documents.
- Tocs-in This link opens in a new windowTocs-in is a bibliographic index to articles in Classics Journals published since 1992. It is a free site provided by the University of Toronto.
[Coverage: 1992-present]