Professor John Munro passed away on December 23, 2013. This site is maintained and kept online as an archive. For more infomation please visit the Centre for Medieval Studies
Professor John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7
CANADA
LIBRARIES and THEIR RESEARCH RESOURCES: Toronto (Robarts), Canada, and International (with websites for academic publishers)
with search engines to find books and articles,
and those listed by publishers and bookstores
Updated: Thursday, 16 August 2012
- University of Toronto Libraries Home Page. You may use this site for search engines to find books, articles, electronic resource, etd. Click on the relevant
box for: Catalogue, Subjects A to Z, Article Search, E-journals, and E-resources (and follow the links from there).
- Robarts Library Catalogue Search Engines: If, after opening this URL, the message states that
"this session has timed out," click on GO, in the dialogue box below, to reactivate the search engine. If you are searching for
journal/periodical titles, click on the first dialogue box (left hand side), for which the default entry is "any field".
Click on the arrow (to the right), which will display a drop-down dialogue box. Then click on "Periodical Titles."
- University of Toronto Libraries: Library Directories, with
Staff Directories (Libraries and Information Commons)
- Find Books: a search engine
offered by the University of Toronto Libraries: to find books and other sources in other libraries. From this Robarts website, click on
Other Library Catalogues, which provides URL links to other libraries in Ontario and elsewhere in
Canada and the United States.
- click on
WorldCat, from the website above, and go to the lower right column, under the heading Major Canadian & U.S. libraries. Follow the online instructions for WorldCat Advanced Search, or see the following link
- WorldCat: a search engine to bind books, articles, etc. in libraries world wide.
- Scholars Portal Books: a search engine for books and other publications provided by the University of Toronto Library system.
- Libdex: the Library Index: A Guide to websites for over 18,000 libraries
across the world (search by country indication; and for North America, by state and province). This site is also found on the Robarts Library's site for Other Library Catalogues.
- (U.S.) Library
of Congress Online Catalog. This should contain the bibliographic information on every book published (at least in the
Western World).
- University of Toronto Libraries: Electronic
Resources
- University of Toronto Libraries: Research Library Information
Network (RLIN) Eureka on the Web: the RLG Union Catalog : click on "logon" near the bottom of the screen.
- University of Toronto Libraries:
Serial Databases: Historical Abstracts:
for example, to find books or articles by a specific author: type author's surname, space, first name (with AND indicated,
by a bullet in the preceding circle). Or type in some other keyword, and follow the instructions.
- University of Toronto Libraries:
Social Science Abstracts (Wilson Index)
To find a journal article, or to find at least the journal concerned, you can also try one the following electronic resources,
made available by the University of Toronto Libraries:
- (1) E-Journals: go to the second line, Option 2: Quick Search for Articles. Then enter
your request in the box, under Option 2. Click on GO.
- (2) Or choose the tab for All e-resources, and follow the instructions.
(3) Electronic Journals and Preprints.
- To search for journal articles by title, or topics, go to this University of Toronto Libraries
website, choosing option 1 or 2, under Articles: E-journals. Or: click on the following:
- Article Finder: via the University of
Toronto Libraries. Or: the following
- Find Articles: also offered via the University of Toronto Libraries
- RefWorks: a web-based citation
management tool made available to the university community by the University of Toronto Library Systems. You must
register, entering a login name and password, in order to use this web system.
- University of Toronto Libraries:
On Line Resources for Medieval Studies
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History:
accessible from a site licence obtained by the University of Toronto Libraries: also listed below, under Other
Search Engines.
- History Arena: History Arena's Scholarly Article
Research Alerting (Taylor and Francis Group, UK)
- UTARMS: University of Toronto Archives and Record Management Services
- PIMS Internexus: Terra Cognita: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies'
list of websites for a wide range of electronic research resources and related web links,
chiefly those provided by the University of Toronto library systems (with restricted access, for students
and faculty at the University of Toronto).
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: a search engine,
available to the academic community at the University of Toronto, for books, journals, archives, websites,
and other sources of information for research on topics involving Medieval and
Renaissance Europe.
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: produced by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University,
- Online Medieval Sources Bibliography: created by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
- Useful Links: to Libraries, Archives, On-Line Catalogues, Biblographic and Data Bases,
Research Institutes, Economic History Societies, Publishers, Public Institutions, etc., relevant to European Economic History, 1300 - 1789, offered by the Fondazione Instituto
Internazionale di Storia Economic "Francesco Datini". Go to the "Useful Links" sections in the lower half of the page.
- Internet Database Service: Quick Search, to be used especially in searching for
relevant journal articles (by author, title, key words) by selecting the data base,
in particular EconLit: published by the American Economic Association,
it provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.
- University of Toronto Bookstore and University of Toronto Press
- Oxford University Press : the publisher's website.
- Cambridge University Press: the publisher's website.
- Cambridge University Press: Economics,
Finance, and Econometrics
- Cambridge University Press:
Economic History
- Ashgate Publishing: History web page: including Economic History
- FetchBook.Info: a free web service to locate published books
and to compare prices at various book-dealers (provided by Ori Tend).
- See below: Elsevier Science-Scirus Search Engine for
Economics, Business, and Management . You may also try this
alternative Elsevier Science-Scirus search engine . In the search
box (below, or the one that appears on the screen), type in the name of the institution or person, economics term, etc., or other subject matter about which
you are seeking information. The results will provide you with the journals, government or institutional reports, web pages,
pdf files, etc. containing such information.
customised by subject area
OTHER ENCYCLOPEDIA-STYLE SEARCH ENGINES and ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History:
accessible from a site licence obtained by the University of Toronto Libraries. This is probably the single most
important online search engine now available for economic historians. The print edition is also available in our
library system:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. by Joel Mokyr (editor in chief), Maristella Botticini
(assistant editor), Maxine Berg, Loren Brandt, Erik Buyst, Louis Cain, Jan de Vries, Paul Lovejoy,
and John Munro (area editors), in 5 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press), 2003.
- Google search engine, which is also
accessible via the
Netscape Google site.
- A recent and most useful addition is Google Scholar ,
which permits you to find publications by the name of the author or scholar. Its help-service instructs you,
for example, on how to find a specific article
- For the most popular, see Wikipedia: more reliable, now, than many critics
contend. Here is the URL link for just the English language version.
- See also:
Answers.Com: Another recent important and very useful academic search engine, which is very useful for looking historical facts, names, places, ideas, events, economic concepts, technological
innovations, etc.
- See also: High Beam Library Research: not as good (in my opinion) as the
others listed above.
To verify your results, use more than just one search engine.
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