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Introduction to Humanities Research

Library resource recommendations to help you get started with humanities research.

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One of the main challenges of using vast research collections such as those owned and made accessible by the IU Bloomington Libraries is knowing where to start.

This guide aims to help with this problem. It links to major resources that can be used to find humanities materials in a variety of formats, across a range of subjects. Although most of the resources included are accessible to IUB-affiliated users only, a small number are freely available. The guide is intended for researchers at all levels.

This guide offers resource recommendations to help you get started with research in the humanities. Please consult our list of research pages (and library specialists) by subject for more extensive information about library resources in specific subjects.