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Frequently Used Resources
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary index and full text source for scholarly journals and magazines. - America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Index with abstracts to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Index with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present; excludes the US and Canada. - Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text journals on educational research in early childhood to higher education, educational specialties, multilingual education, health education and testing. - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex and abstracts for topics in librarianship, including classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
- JMU Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowFind journals, books, ebooks, films, sound recordings, and government documents available to JMU users.
Digital Humanities Centers
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New MediaBased at George Mason University, the CHNM aims to use "digital media and computer technology to democratize history." This is a good centralized location to find online tools for digital humanities research along with examples of digital projects.
- Virginia Center for Digital HistoryBased at the University of Virginia, the VCDH seeks to advance historic scholarship as it facilitates the creation of digital history projects and creates new applications for current and future researchers. This site includes a list of the digital collections created at the VCDH.
- UCL Centre for Digital HumanitiesThis center is in the University College of London and aims at harnessing digital technologies to pursue new avenues of scholarly research in all areas of the humanities. The Research Projects page provides examples of the wide variety of projects in the field of Digital Humanities.
- A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United StatesA robust list of digital humanities centers in the United States can be found in Appendix B of this 2008 survey. Since new digital humanities centers open every year, this static list is not comprehensive but is a good starting place, including centers established before 2008.