Research Guides: HIST 2200: History to 1500: Finding Secondary Sources

Finding Articles

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text and complete back runs of scholarly journals in a variety of academic disciplines.
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Features thousands of full-text journals covering a broad range of academic subjects.

Brandel Library Catalog
Find books and e-books available to you at North Park.
I-Share
Find books at academic libraries throughout Illinois, and have them delivered to North Park. Books should arrive in about a week, and you will get an email telling you the item has arrived. This service is free to all NPU students.
WorldCat
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	Scholarly Article	Popular Article	Scholarly Book	Popular Book
Author	Scholar (usually with a Ph.D.)	Journalist / Freelance Writer / Staff Writer	Scholar (usually with a Ph.D.)	Journalist / Writer
Publisher	Scholarly Journal	Magazine / Website	University Press	Generalist Publisher
Intended Audience	Other Scholars (this includes you!)	General Public	Other Scholars (this includes you!)	General Public
Example	In Search of Machaut’s Poietics: Music and Rhetoric in Le Remede de Fortune	Reading Dante’s Purgatory While the World Hangs in the Balance	Machaut and the medieval apprenticeship tradition : truth, fiction and poetic craft	The road not taken : finding America in the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets wrong