RESEARCH GUIDES BY SUBJECT AND COURSE - CLASSICS RESOURCES - ART & ART HISTORY RESOURCES - GETTING STARTED - LOCATING BOOKS - FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES - INTERNET RESOURCES - REFWORKS - MORE INFORMATION

Getting Started

Reference works, such as encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries, are a good place to begin your research or search for ideas for a research topic. They provide background information and may provide bibliographies of additional resources for your topic.

Selected reference sources:

• General
• Encyclopedia of Sacred Places
  [Ref BL580.B76 1997]
• Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World
  [Ref CB 351.E53 2008]
• International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture
  [Ref NA40 .I48 1993]
• International Dictionary of Historic Places
  [Ref CC135.585 1994]
• Monuments of Italy
  [Ref DG431 .O67 2002]
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  [Ref CB9.N49 2005]
• Ancient
• Dictionary of Roman Religion
  [Ref BL798.A35 1996]
• Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
  [Ref N5610 .G76 2007]
• Oxford Classical Dictionary
  [Ref DE5 .O9 1996]
• Perseus Project
  Provides illustrations of archaeological sites, art objects, buildings, etc.
• Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum
  [Ref BL727.T44 2004]  (there are articles in multiple languages in this research tool as well as illustrations)
• Medieval
• Dictionary of the Middle Ages
  [Ref D114 .D5 1982]
• Enciclopedia dell'arte Medievale
  [Ref N5965 .E5]
• Encyclopedia of Early Christianity
  [Ref BR162.2.E53 1997]
• Encyclopedia of the Early Church
  [Ref BR66.5.D5813 1992]
• Medieval Italy an Encyclopedia
  [Ref DG443 .M43 2004]

Locating Books

The CONSORT catalog can be used to locate books and other materials available in the Kenyon, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan and Wooster libraries. CONSORT also provides access to OhioLINK, which indicates the holdings of over 88 libraries throughout Ohio. You may borrow books directly from either CONSORT or OhioLINK. Requested materials typically arrive at Kenyon 3-5 working days after the request is made.

Examples of subject headings:

Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Sacred space
Shrines

WorldCat is a catalog of library holdings throughout the country and world. It contains records for any type of materials: books, sound recordings, video recordings, manuscripts, etc. and can be used to locate materials not held by OhioLINK libraries.

Finding Journal Articles

• L'Annee Philologique on the Internet (1949-2006)
  Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world concerning the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy, and concerning the time period from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D
• Art Full Text
  Art Full Text provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for 400 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database offers broad coverage of art topics, including archaeology, architecture, and art history.
• ATLA Religion Database
  A comprehensive database covering 1400 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the religion and theology.
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (1973 - )
  The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present and indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 4,800 periodicals.
• Grove Dictionary of Art
  An encyclopedia of 45,000 articles covering art and artists worldwide. It is a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s.
• Humanities International Complete
  A comprehensive database covering 1700 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the humanities. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
  Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Getting Articles Not Available at Kenyon

Many journal titles indexed in these resources are not available at Kenyon. You need to place an Inter-Library loan request to get copies of articles from journals not available at Kenyon. Estimated time for an item to arrive is at least 2 weeks.

Evaluating Internet Sites

It is very important to think critically about Internet resources. To assist you in evaluating Internet resources, see:

• Evaluating Internet Resources

Refworks

RefWorks is an online service used to create a personal database of bibliographic citations, which may be automatically formatted for bibliography and footnotes.

More Information

Carmen King

Fine Arts Librarian

Olin Library

(740) 427-5340

At Reference Desk: Tue, 2-4 pm and Thur, 6-10 pm

Karen Greever

Collection Development Librarian

Chalmers Library

(740) 427-5420

At Reference Desk: Mon, 10-12 pm and Wed, 6-10 pm