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HIST 030: Glory Days? Postwar Europe, 1945-75 (SC)

History 30: Glory Days? Postwar Europe, 1945-75 (Brown) Spring 2020

Finding Scholarly Sources: The Basics

Find books and book chapters:

• Search Tripod, the TriCo library catalog: https://tripod.swarthmore.edu
• Includes ebooks and print/paper books

Find journal articles:

• Use history database Historical Abstracts
• Also search: JSTOR, Project Muse, and Tripod

Find scholarly journal articles: starting points

Historical Abstracts
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
Swarthmore has access to the full text.

More Resources for Scholarly Articles

JSTOR
Access to millions of journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in most academic disciplines. For journals, coverage is from first issue through three to five years ago.
Project Muse journals
Provides access to journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.