Professor John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7
CANADA
e-mail: john.munro@utoronto.ca

LIBRARIES and THEIR RESEARCH RESOURCES: Toronto (Robarts), Canada, and International (with websites for academic publishers)

with search engines to find books and articles, and those listed by publishers and bookstores

Updated: Thursday, 16 August 2012

• University of Toronto Libraries Home Page. You may use this site for search engines to find books, articles, electronic resource, etd. Click on the relevant box for: Catalogue, Subjects A to Z, Article Search, E-journals, and E-resources (and follow the links from there).

• Robarts Library Catalogue Search Engines: If, after opening this URL, the message states that "this session has timed out," click on GO, in the dialogue box below, to reactivate the search engine. If you are searching for journal/periodical titles, click on the first dialogue box (left hand side), for which the default entry is "any field". Click on the arrow (to the right), which will display a drop-down dialogue box. Then click on "Periodical Titles."

• University of Toronto Libraries: Library Directories, with Staff Directories (Libraries and Information Commons)

• Find Books: a search engine offered by the University of Toronto Libraries: to find books and other sources in other libraries. From this Robarts website, click on Other Library Catalogues, which provides URL links to other libraries in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada and the United States.

• click on WorldCat, from the website above, and go to the lower right column, under the heading Major Canadian & U.S. libraries. Follow the online instructions for WorldCat Advanced Search, or see the following link

• WorldCat: a search engine to bind books, articles, etc. in libraries world wide.

• Scholars Portal Books: a search engine for books and other publications provided by the University of Toronto Library system.

• Libdex: the Library Index: A Guide to websites for over 18,000 libraries across the world (search by country indication; and for North America, by state and province). This site is also found on the Robarts Library's site for Other Library Catalogues.

• (U.S.) Library of Congress Online Catalog. This should contain the bibliographic information on every book published (at least in the Western World).

• University of Toronto Libraries: Electronic Resources

• University of Toronto Libraries: Research Library Information Network (RLIN) Eureka on the Web: the RLG Union Catalog : click on "logon" near the bottom of the screen.

• University of Toronto Libraries: Serial Databases: Historical Abstracts: for example, to find books or articles by a specific author: type author's surname, space, first name (with AND indicated, by a bullet in the preceding circle). Or type in some other keyword, and follow the instructions.

• University of Toronto Libraries: Social Science Abstracts (Wilson Index)

• To find a journal article, or to find at least the journal concerned, you can also try one the following electronic resources, made available by the University of Toronto Libraries:

  - (1) E-Journals: go to the second line, Option 2: Quick Search for Articles. Then enter your request in the box, under Option 2. Click on GO.

  - (2) Or choose the tab for All e-resources, and follow the instructions.

  (3) Electronic Journals and Preprints.

• To search for journal articles by title, or topics, go to this University of Toronto Libraries website, choosing option 1 or 2, under Articles: E-journals. Or: click on the following:

• Article Finder: via the University of Toronto Libraries. Or: the following

• Find Articles: also offered via the University of Toronto Libraries

• RefWorks: a web-based citation management tool made available to the university community by the University of Toronto Library Systems. You must register, entering a login name and password, in order to use this web system.

• University of Toronto Libraries: On Line Resources for Medieval Studies

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History: accessible from a site licence obtained by the University of Toronto Libraries: also listed below, under Other Search Engines.

• History Arena: History Arena's Scholarly Article Research Alerting (Taylor and Francis Group, UK)

• UTARMS: University of Toronto Archives and Record Management Services

• PIMS Internexus: Terra Cognita: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies' list of websites for a wide range of electronic research resources and related web links, chiefly those provided by the University of Toronto library systems (with restricted access, for students and faculty at the University of Toronto).

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: a search engine, available to the academic community at the University of Toronto, for books, journals, archives, websites, and other sources of information for research on topics involving Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: produced by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University,

• Online Medieval Sources Bibliography: created by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University

• Useful Links: to Libraries, Archives, On-Line Catalogues, Biblographic and Data Bases, Research Institutes, Economic History Societies, Publishers, Public Institutions, etc., relevant to European Economic History, 1300 - 1789, offered by the Fondazione Instituto Internazionale di Storia Economic "Francesco Datini". Go to the "Useful Links" sections in the lower half of the page.

• Internet Database Service: Quick Search, to be used especially in searching for relevant journal articles (by author, title, key words) by selecting the data base, in particular EconLit: published by the American Economic Association, it provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.

• University of Toronto Bookstore and University of Toronto Press

• Oxford University Press : the publisher's website.

• Cambridge University Press: the publisher's website.

• Cambridge University Press: Economics, Finance, and Econometrics

• Cambridge University Press: Economic History

• Ashgate Publishing: History web page: including Economic History

• FetchBook.Info: a free web service to locate published books and to compare prices at various book-dealers (provided by Ori Tend).

• See below: Elsevier Science-Scirus Search Engine for Economics, Business, and Management . You may also try this alternative Elsevier Science-Scirus search engine . In the search box (below, or the one that appears on the screen), type in the name of the institution or person, economics term, etc., or other subject matter about which you are seeking information. The results will provide you with the journals, government or institutional reports, web pages, pdf files, etc. containing such information.

  Search only in Economics Business and Management