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History 491: Imperial Germany: Scholarly Articles

Scholarship Defined

Scholarship is the product of scholars. Scholars are students who have devoted much time and energy to a particular subject. In order to be considered a scholar, one must publish his work (make public). In the free market place of ideas, the scholar's work is critically evaluated and measured against the existing literature on the subject. In most cases, scholarship is a secondary source. One major exception to this is the study of historical interpretations or historiography. In that case, the history itself is the primary source.

Google Scholar

The general Google search will not help you find many scholarly articles, but Google Scholar might.Consider using the cited by feature to find related articles.

Journal Indexes

 
Historical Abstracts
Covers world history outside the U.S. and Canada since the Middle Ages. Click on the Online Databases link on the library’s homepage. Note that the presence of a full-text link does not mean that WIU has the full-text version. Coverage c1955.

 

Arts and Humanities Search
Indexes the world’s leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage back to 1980. Contains 1300 journal titiles.

 

Humanities International Index
Indexes articles, books, and reference sources in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Approx. 2,000 journal titles indexed cover-to-cover.

Scholarly Article Repositories

Project MUSE
Provides full-text to over 100 scholarly journals. Use it to update J-STOR titles. Limit your search to those journals subscribed to by your institution.
 
JSTOR
JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. The default is "Include links to external content." If you want to retrieve only content that you can access check the "Include only content I can access" box.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search

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