Hands-on History: Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe

Comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of international literature related to the preservation and conservation of material culture heritage. Literature includes journals, conference proceedings and preprints, occasional papers, relevant electronic resources, audio visual resources and dissertations and theses.

Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. International in scope, Art Source includes periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch

A comprehensive bibliographical database of scholarly writing about the history of western art, containing abstracts and indexes of current publications in the history of art, including scholarly journals, conferences, book, exhibition reviews, and exhibition catalogues. The abstracts may be in English or in French, and index terms (descriptors) are in both English and French

A companion to the index of articles in the International Medieval Bibliography Online, this database indexes books and book reviews on the same topics.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index (GLHI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy.

Literally the scholarly version of Google. You can perform very complicated searches in this database and it generally produces very good (and obscure) results.

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, and history of education.

This is an EBSCO database that indexes several resources, including the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Keep your searches simple, i.e. “experiment” AND “Renaissance” or “making” AND “Sixteenth century”.

The bibliography provides authoritative coverage of international scholarship within the following broad parameters: European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945 ; Visual arts in all media, plus decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology and classical studies, antiques and architectural history, and related fields.

Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers.

Contains electronic resources for researchers in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Enables users to access citations in journal, book, and reviews databases; provides online access to Paul Oskar Krisetller's Iter Italicum (a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts).

Try a variety of keyword searches, i.e. “recipe” AND “bread” AND “sixteenth century”; or something like “experiment” AND “Renaissance” for broader results.

Full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.