Subject and Course Guides: History: Journal Articles

Indexes for Journal Articles

Below are indexes to journal articles relevant to different areas of history. These indexes all identify articles on specific topics and, in some cases, provide direct links to full text of the articles. Depending on the topic, the indexes can lead to primary or secondary sources.

America: History and Life
America: History and Life provides articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. The database also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 140 major journals of American history and culture, and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.

America: History and Life is a resource for a variety of disciplines, including:

* History
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Genealogy
* Interdisciplinary Studies
* Literature/Folklore
* Multicultural Studies
* Popular Culture
* Sociology
* Women's Studies/Gender Studies
* History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law
Historical Abstracts
Historical study of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Published since 1954, this database has long been recognized as among the leading bibliographies for historical study of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Alternative Press Index
Alternative Press Index covers alternative radical and left publications. Limited to 1 simultaneous user.
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES)
American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES) is being renamed American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES) to more accurately represent the content within the product. This bibliographic resource provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, with a vast collection of indexed sources, published in the United States and Canada. Coverage for ABSEEES ranges from 1989 to the present.
Annee Philologique
L'Année philologique online is the digital version of L'Année philologique, a database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, in collaboration with the Society for Classical Studies (founded as the American Philological Association).
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
This resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment. The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.
It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009. The Bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. 696 journals and series are currently searched systematically for material relevant to the Bibliography and you can consult a list of these journals and series.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar covers as much scholarly literature as Google has indexed.
You can use Google Scholar to search by keywords.
You can also use Google Scholar to search for sources that have cited a source you have in hand. Enter the author, article or book title, date, and, for articles, the title of the journal in which it appeared.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Selected works on social sciences and the humanities in Latin America (1936 to present).
This database is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and published since 1936, the Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
HAPI Online combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage from 1970 to the present.
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Also provides over 60,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

Databases of Journal Articles

The databases listed below provide searchable full-text journal articles. Depending on the topic, the databases can lead to primary or secondary sources.

JSTOR
Digitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.
Collections of back issues of scholarly journals in the following disciplines: arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, and general science.
Periodicals Archive Online
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.
Persee
Persee provides open access to back files of more than 150 French scientific journals in the field of the humanities. Journals have moving walls of different lengths that block access to recent issues. Persee has advanced functionalities which facilitate and enhance use of the portal’s resources.
Project Muse
Journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Project MUSE® offers more than 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. It covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

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History: Journal Articles

Indexes for Journal Articles

Databases of Journal Articles

Locations

Richard J. Daley Library

Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago

Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria

Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana