Research Guides: HIST 486: Human Rights in Middle East (Katz): Finding Secondary Sources

Books

Interlibrary Loan System
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WorldCat TU This link opens in a new window
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Find books, articles, and media at TU and other libraries worldwide. If we have it, you can get it today. If we do not own an item, you can request it using Interlibrary Loan, and we will borrow it from another library.

Gaza in Context [YouTube Video]: A Collaborative Teach-In Series
First Installment: Gaza 101
Institute for Middle East Understanding
"... an independent non-profit organization that provides journalists with quick access to information about Palestine and the Palestinians, as well as expert sources, both in the United States and in the Middle East."
Jadaliyya
Independent website lauched by the Arab Studies Institute in July 2010, by writers affiliated with the Arab Studies Journal.
Middle East Institute
A non-partisan think tank, the oldest Washington-based institution dedicated solely to the study of the Middle East.
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
Middle East Research and Information Project
Visualizing Palestine
"Visualizing Palestine (VP) was established in 2012, and is dedicated to using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. VP envisions a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression."

Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.
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Digital image archive of over 450 core scholarly journals in JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV collections. Coverage begins with the first volume and issue of the title. Articles contain full text plus graphics, charts, tables etc.

Dissertations and Theses: Global This link opens in a new window
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This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997

Google Scholar
Google scholar is particularly useful for seeing citation counts for materials and seeing how different articles and books cite each other. Both useful in constructing the historiographic profile of your subject.