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Introduction to Library Research
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslin World
Search the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries' Catalog
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Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade & general publications, & references for The NY Times.
Academic OneFile
Provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.
Index Islamicus
Index Islamicus indexes articles and books on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS) database indexes
journal articles, books, "grey literature," and freely available web sites on politics, international relations, law, business and economics, the arts and humanities, religion, recent history, and societal and cultural trends.
MLA International Bibliography
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
More library e-resources on Middle Eastern Studies
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ARTstor
ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data
for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use.
Maps
Extensive collection of online CIA and historical maps from the Perry Casteneda Library at the University of Texas at Austin.
FilmFinder
Search the films available in the Media Resources Center, located on the lower level of the R.B. House Undergraduate Library.
Global Newsbank
Provides full text of news summaries, broadcasts and transcripts from hundreds of international sources.
Lexis-Nexis
Provides full-text access to general, regional and international news.
New York Times Historical
The New York Times Historical covers the entire publishing history of the newspaper, from 1851 to
2001.