Research Resources

An ever-growing list of online resources useful for researching SCA arts & sciences projects. This list complements Gwen’s Research for Every Project class.

Museums

Current & Upcoming Special Exhibits in Southern California

Free Museum Publications and Exhibition Books

• Getty Publications Virtual Library
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: MetPublications

Online Exhibits at Google Arts & Culture

Domain-Specific Databases & Collections

• Portable Antiquities Scheme: archeological artifacts found in England and Wales
• Kunera: late medieval badges and ampoules, mostly made from pewter
• English Broadside Ballad Archive
• Roman Inscriptions of Britain & Epigraphic Database Heidelberg: Roman-era inscriptions
• Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
• Anglo-American Legal Tradition: photos of legal documents from Medieval and Early Modern England
• The Merchant Fleet of Late Medieval and Tudor England, 1400–1580: English, Welsh, and Channel Islands merchant ships and their voyages

Digitized Historical Documents

Scanned Library Collections (manuscripts and/or printed books)

• British Library: Digitized Manuscripts
• Digital Bodleian
• Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica
• Digitized Vatican Library
• Library of Congress: Digital Collections
• Google Books
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Internet Archive

Transcriptions of Historical Documents

• Early English Books Online
• British History Online
• The National Archives (UK)
• Perseus Digital Library: Classical Greek & Roman, Old Norse, Humanist & Renaissance Italian, and Renaissance English literary works

Gateways to Academic Sources

• Google Scholar
• SemanticScholar
• JSTOR
• ProQuest (best for dissertations)
• Project Muse
• ResearchGate
• Academia.edu
• UC Press E-Books Collection
• WorldCat

Further Reading on Research

Blakeslee, Sarah. The CRAAP Test. LOEX Quarterly, Volume 31.

Evaluating Information – Applying the CRAAP Test

McDaniel, W. Caleb. How to Read for History.