Research Guides: ARCH 229 Visual Culture of the Ancient Near East (BMC): Locating Books & Articles

Locating Books in Tri-Co and Beyond

Tripod Library Catalog
- Use Tripod to find resources available from the TriCo Libraries.
- Search for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more

EZ-Borrow
Can't find a book in Tripod? A book is checked out? Try looking it up in EZBorrow to find books from nearby (delivered in 2-5days).
ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Need a book or article not in Tripod? Use ILLiad to request books not available in Tripod or via E-ZBorrow, plus journal articles, book chapters and more for delivery in 2-14 days.

Interdisciplinary Journal Databases

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.
ProQuest Arts and Humanities Database
This ProQuest full-text journal database, formerly known as "ProQuest Arts and Humanities Full Text" has been created to complement the CSA Illumina portfolio of Arts and Humanities databases. Subscribers to any of these databases - including ARTBibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, British Humanities Index, MLA International Bibliography and Philosopher's Index amongst others - can link directly from citations in these indexes to the corresponding full-text articles. The contents reflect the full interdisciplinarity of contemporary study in the arts and humanities, with the inclusion of selected titles from related fields that are also covered by these indexes, such as ethnic and area studies, politics, economics and women's studies.

Scholarly Journals

Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site Reports (AMAR)
Full text of hundreds of published site reports; ability to do full-text searches. We also have most of these in print form in Carpenter. There are no records for the titles in this database in Tripod.
ABZU
A refereed collection of websites, e-books, articles.
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives
ETANA is a multi-institutional collaborative electronic publishing project providing resources relevant to the study of the history and culture of the ancient Near East. ETENA includes three databases: Abzu, Core Texts and eTact. Abzu is a guide to resources relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, including articles, websites, books and presentations. Core Texts includes digitized versions of ancient texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to ancient Near Eastern studies and eTact is a repository for translations of religious, legal, literary and historical works in the Akkadian language. (Updates ongoing)
Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library, University of Chicago
For the library, choose Search Research Archives. Searchable index to the books and journals in the OI Library, including titles of journal articles and chapters in collected studies. Since 1990. No connection to Tripod, so you'll have to search for journal titles or book titles in Tripod.
Hittite Bibliography
Keyword searching within article and book titles possible. A lot of the results here can be found through Periodicals Index Online, Zenon, and the Oriental Institute catalogues, but this is a very complete bibliography on all things Hittite. Search Tripod to see if we have the books or journals.

Bibliotheca Orientalis
Contains reviews and bibliographical data on books published on the ancient and modern Near East.
ATLA Religion Database + ATLA Serials (American Theological Library Association)
Provides online access to the entire core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers 1949-present.

Catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (ZENON)
Included in this catalog are not only books held by the libraries, but a full index to the journals and collected volumes. You can also use the same catalogue through a different interface, zenon.dainst.org