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Iberia 1400-1700: English Language Resources: Indexes

Contains reference sources about the history of Spain and Portugal and their empires from 1400-1700. Last updated 06-08-2023

Indexes

Use an index to identify scholarly periodical articles and books.  The steps in the process are:

Choose an index.

Do the search, using keywords or controlled vocabulary or both.

Modify the strategy to improve results if necessary.

Understand the citations retrieved. Print, save, e-mail, or export them, if desired.

Find the full text of the article in the Library, by following links in the index to the full text, or by looking up the journal title in E Books and Journals.   If you can't find an electronic version of the journal, try looking for the journal name in Books and Media, as we may have a paper/cloth bound volume.  If we do, it might be in Remote Storage; there will be a "Get This" button in the catalog record to have it brought out from Remote Storage to the Circulation Desk to check out.  Full texts may be online, on paper, or on microform. If we do not own the journal, use Interlibrary loan to obtain a copy of your article.

Peninsular Literature: a Guide to Selected Resources will be helpful if your topic is literary.  Look at the resources in the Article Indexes tab in this research guide.