Middle Eastern Library Program Research Guide
Online Resources
Search successfully for materials in Arabic and Persian in the UT Libraries Catalog and scoUT with he American Library Association/Library of Congress rules for romanization:
Databases and indexes valuable to Middle Eastern Studies researchers include:
- Government, Public Affairs, Politics, Policy: PAIS, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), RAND, Roubini Global Economics and others
- Language and Literature: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) and MLA
- History: Historical Abstracts, Cambridge Histories Online, Francis,
- Religion: Index Islamicus, Encyclopaedia of Islam, ATLA Religion Index
- Social and Gender Issues: Sociological Abstracts, Gender Studies Database
- The Libraries' research guides for Art, Architecture, Communication, Film, Jewish Studies, Media/RTF, and other disciplines offer additional specialized resources.
- In addition, consider Multi-disciplinary databases such as Academic Search Complete, and Periodicals Archive Online.
- News Sources of specific interest include :
- Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East reporting and commentary from the Middle East for English-speaking audience
- Alt-PressWatch
- Ethnic Newswatch
- Lexis Nexis - Q2 2013 updates include many new Middle East news sources.
- Library Press Display
Licensed ejournals (such as the JSTOR ) are linked from citations in your database search results . To check for a particular title, try the A-Z journal list or the library catalog.
ebooks from a variety of sources are also available by searching the library catalog, or scoUT or by particular platform (such as ebrary, EBL, see Book and Text Collections for details by platform)
The PCL Map Collection includes maps of the Middle East and Africa
Primary Sources: the Libraries' collection includes 160 Arabic manuscripts from Yemen on microfilm, filmed by the scholar Robert W. Stookey in 1973.There is a searchable index to the collection is available.
Use OCLCWorldCat to search holdings of research libraries worldwide and obtain details needed to request items or content not available at UT: online interlibrary loan request form
Dissertations are linked from the Library Catalog and available in the UT Digital Repository with print versions shelved in 5J-K in PCL. Any dissertations and theses that are not available locally can be requested throughInterlibrary Loan. In addition, Dissertations and Theses Fulltext from 1997 to present are available as PDFs where author permits from ProQuest.
Google Scholar: finds articles, pre-prints and post-prints of articles, reports and other “grey” literature, and materials in institutional repositories. Access Google Scholar from the Library web site (which authenticates via EID) to ensure there are active links from your search results to UT licensed electronic journals. More information on Google Scholar.
Citation rankings tools include: JCR Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science as well as Google Scholar, which maintains a list of the top 100 journals ranked by h5-index and h5-median (more information on Google Scholar rankings and metrics).
Questions? Contact Susan Macicak.
Video and Sound Recordings
Browsable lists of:
How to find Middle Eastern music in the library catalog:
- Go to "music search" from the library catalog
- Type a keyword in the search box
- Use truncation to get a larger result (for example, "arab?" will pick up "arab," "arabesque," "arabian," "arabic," and "arabs")
- If you don't wish to find musical scores, be sure to uncheck "score"
- Under "material type," click on "CDs" or any other format you wish to find
- Under "language," select one or more Middle Eastern languages
- Limit by year if you like
- Click on "Go" and your list will display in the window.
