International Medieval Bibliography Database Searching Tips
IMB covers the period of 450-1450 in Europe, North Africa, Armenia and the Muslim World; it indexes periodicals, conference proceedings, essay collections and festschriften.
The Library does not have all the journals indexed by this database.
You must look in the Library's catalog and search by journal title to see if we own the journals and then get their call numbers to find them.
Getting into the IMB | Searching | Viewing Results | Printing
When you click on the Library's link to IMB, you arrive at a screen for the IMB's publisher, Brepolis.
click on the button on the bottom labeled "Enter databases" to enter the IMB
Then click the "Go" button next to "International Medieval Bibliography - Online"
NOTE: Use * [an asterisk] for truncations, e.g. convent* will search for all forms of the word "Convent" such as: convent convents convento
To execute a search, click on 
Click on the IMB icon
to see the citation:
Initially, all the citations will be checked. There is no way to un-check them all at once. If you retrieve too many citations, consider refining your search by adding other terms or limiting by time or place.
Exporting is possible to the screen or to a floppy disc. You can export results of searches for your own use. This may be done in two ways:
"Export" provides a download in *.csv (comma-separated value) format, whereby the selected records are separated by commas into distinct fields. This download format is therefore appropriate for use in most proprietary databases such as Excel or Access.
"Export as HTML" provides a download in html format which can then be used in word-processing software, and can be saved in *.rtf or *.doc formats, for instance.
Printing: To print a full citation, you must pull up the full citation, then click your browser's File > Print commands.
Contact for International Medieval Bibliography : Jen Tellman, Social Sciences Librarian, tellmanj@u.library.arizona.edu
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Created by Lisa Waite Bunker.
Last updated July 22, 2008