Getting Started:
You'll be utilizing the tutorial "How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography" from Cornell University Libraries; refer to this article for general questions on how to format you annotated bibliography. The UND Writing Center formatting guidelines may also be useful to you. On the formatting guidelines page, select MLA Formatting and Documentation to find formatting information pertinent to your assignment.
Reference Books can help you find a subject of interest. Browse through their contents to find an area of Viking history and culture that you wish to focus on
Note: Reference material can no longer be found in the reference section. They have been moved to the stacks on the 3rd and 4th floors.
In-library Reference Books:
An encyclopedia with information on aspects of daily life for multiple medieval cultures, including Vikings. Domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life are all covered in this encyclopedia.
This reference is a comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most enduring and influential works, such as Dante's Commedia, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and a large body of Arthurian lore and legend. While its emphasis is upon medieval English texts and society, this reference also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and Middle Age culture.
Library of Congress subject headings can be helpful when searching for books available in the library. For example, try searching the library catalog with terms listed below:
. You can have our library borrow a book from another library (called an InterLibrary Loan) by registering and requesting the book here.A helpful research guide on how to find and use eBooks from the Chester Fritz Library
Chester Fritz Library Research How Tos page on finding and using resources including the library search, books, articles and more.
In-library call number ranges:
Materials on Norwegian history and culture can be found on the fourth floor of the library and materials on Norwegian language and literature can be found on the third floor of the library, in the following call number ranges.
| Fourth Floor | DL401-596 | Norway |
| Fourth Floor | DL443-537 | History |
| Third Floor | PD2501-2999 | Norwegian |
Start with these databases to find scholarly articles:
Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Using the databases:
You likely have an idea of what area of Viking life you want to focus on for your annotated bibliography. Now when finding articles, you'll want to refine your subject and break it down into simple search terms. Here are some examples of searching for articles:
For this search, we are attempting to find articles related to Viking jewelry. 'Viking' is put in the first search term and labelled a Subject Term on the right. Jewelry is placed in the search box below it, and the two search terms are connected by 'AND'. Note that in the search box with jewelry. there are other terms connected to it by using 'OR'. This allows us to bring up articles that contain 'Viking' and any of the search terms in the second box. Use 'OR' to broaden your search by adding synonyms and similar terms to your search. Use 'AND' to narrow and refine your search by adding more terms that an article must have in order to show up in your results.
In this search, we are attempting to find articles on the domestic life of Vikings. Again, the first search term is 'Viking', which is chosen as a Subject Term. The next term used is 'households OR home Or domestic'. However, using these two search boxes alone gives messy results. We get articles on Viking TV programs, the appliance company Viking Range Corp., and the Minnesota Vikings. So, to get rid of these unwanted articles, the boolean operator 'NOT' is selected on the left of the third box, and in the box we've added terms that relate to the unwanted articles. Now, any articles that contain 'TV', 'Football', or 'Range' will not show up in the results. Use 'NOT' to exclude search terms.
Recommended Journals
Here is a list of Journals recommended by your professor which may be useful for your research:
For more database options, check the Finding Articles Page in this guide
