LibGuides: Humanities: Getting Started

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This guide will help you find reliable resources for your research assignments for humanities. Use the recommended resources below or navigate this guide using the tabs at the left to find more specific resources or get additional information.

Recommended Resources

These are some of the most relevant and widely used resources for humanities.

Academic Search Complete
Contains more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, the majority being peer-reviewed journals. It also provides an index to additional journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings. It covers a wide range of topics and is a good place to start researching a topic.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
A comprehensive guide to the current literature of architecture and design. The index covers periodical literature, including state, regional, and professional publications and major serial publications in architecture. This database also provides records of architects' obituaries.
Center for Research Libraries
A collection of approximately five million items including: newspapers, journals, documents, and archives from a global network of sources. Available for free to the IIT community through interlibrary loan, electronic delivery, and on-site use at CRL in Chicago.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides access to research journals in communication, technical communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Offers indexing and abstracts for journals, with full text for 301 journals, as well as a thesaurus and author profiles.
JSTOR
JSTOR (Journal STORage) is an archive of important scholarly journals in a variety of subject related to the humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences. JSTOR is not the place to search for the most current research, but overall is an excellent multidisciplinary database containing articles from many essential peer-reviewed sources.

Humanities

Humanities Librarian

Nichole Novak

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