Research Guides: Museum Studies: Home

Introduction

This guide is an entry point to resources in Museum Studies. This includes help with scholarly articles, books and ebooks, databases, and other resources in the field.

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To start your research we recommend the following databases:

Web of Science, Web of Science database
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching.
Please contact the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship for assistance setting up the Web of Science API.
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
ERIC
This freely available version of ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and serves as a clearinghouse for published and grey literature related to Education and related disciplines.

iDigBio
Open access collection displaying data and images of millions of biological specimens

Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture from the late 19th century to the present.

Project MUSE
Resources from over 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social sciences.