Research & Subject Guides: History: Find Articles & Databases

Selected Databases for Scholarly Research

Academic Search Complete Date coverage varies, back to 1887. Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Covers over 6100 fulltext journals, 5100 peer reviewed journals, and indexing for over 10,000 journals. Non-journal publications are also indexed.
America: History & Life (EBSCO) 1964-present. Citations and abstracts. History and culture of the U.S. & Canada, from prehistory to the present. 1,700 academic journals in more than 40 languages, as well as books and dissertations.
Cambridge Journals Online 1990s-present. Access to 500 fulltext, peer-reviewed journals and 20 books that cover a broad range of subjects across the humanities, arts, and sciences.
Dissertations & Theses Global Fulltext and citations. Contains 1.2 million full-text dissertations, including most dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Includes 2.7 million citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) 1955-present. Citations and abstracts. History of the world (excluding the U.S. & Canada) from 1450 to the present. Military history, women's history, and history of education. 1,700 academic journals in over 40 languages.
JSTOR Coverage begins with the first issue of a journal, some as early as the 1600s, and continues up until 1-to-5 years ago. An online archive of core scholarly journals in most fields of study. Comprised of high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Not a source for recent articles.
Project MUSE Date coverage varies, mostly current. Fulltext access to over 600 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine & Health, as well as some titles in Science, Technology, and Mathematics. Access Note: SBU only subscribes to some titles in this collection
SAGE Journals Academic, scholarly and research articles on subjects in humanities, medicine, sciences and social sciences. Access Note: SBU only subscribes to some titles in this collection

Specific Journals

You may want to target your research to a specific journal in your subject area. Below are listed some prominent scholarly journals in history along with various print and electronic access options.

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American Historical Review
ONLINE: 1996-present in Oxford Journals.
1895-2004 in JSTOR Arts and Sciences I Collection.
PRINT: 1895-present. E171 .A57.
Journal of American History
ONLINE: Jun 1996-present in Oxford Journals
1964-2004 in JSTOR Arts and Sciences I Collection.
PRINT: 1964-present. E171 .J87.
Journal of Medieval History
ONLINE: 1997-present in Taylor & Francis Online
Print Holdings: 1977-2004 - D111 .J67
Historische Zeitschrift
ONLINE: 2008-present in Atypon Link.
PRINT: 1859-present. D1.H6.
Russian Studies in History
ONLINE: 2001-present in Academic Search Complete
PRINT: 1992-present. D1 .S67.

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