Databases/Article Indexes for History


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ACLS Humanities E-Books
Dates vary

formerly known as ACLS History Ebook Project
Offers a searchable collection over 1700 full-text humanities books, as well as reviews.
 
Ad*Access
1911-1955

Open Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines.
 
The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
 
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
Recommended resource
History of the United States and Canada, comprised of over 490,000 citations in over 2,000 journals dating back to 1964. Also available from ABC-Clio
 
American Memory
1450-current

Open Access
Library of Congress historical collections online, comprised of written and audio-visual materials, with roughly 120 collections in all subject areas.
 
American Song
1750 - 1960
American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 763 albums, equaling 12,542 tracks.
 
AP Images
1826 - Current

formerly AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive 1 user maximum
an International photo archive (1826-present), a Graphics Database which contains graphics, maps, illustrations and logos, and an AP Audio Database which contains searchable audio clips dating back to the 1920s.
 
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI)
1980-current

41 concurrent users maximum
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
 
Full text access to Health Sciences and Social Sciences titles from Cambridge University press.
 
CIA World Factbook
Current

Open Access
Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
 
Resource for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
 
Offers access to English language translations of the current constitutions of 187 countries, with scholarly commentary and citations to secondary works. Historical documents (usually earlier constitutions) in English translation are available for many countries. Also includes up-to-date constitutions for the United States (with commentary) and all 50 U.S. states, plus 15 U.S. territories. Historical documents include proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution and earlier constitutions of many U.S. states.
 
Indexes books, journals, reports, etc. about women's health and human rights issues.
 
Political, economic, corporate, and environmental trends in 191 countries.
 
CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics into an electronic format that offers easy navigation between titles. Includes Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.
 
Features reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations.
 
Weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, two bibliographies and more.
 
Provides access to tools for statistical analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Justices roles, opinions, and voting in cases from 1946 to the present full text and summaries of U.S. Supreme Court opinions from October 1969 to the present biographies of U.S. Supreme Court Justices and articles about the Court from CQs Supreme Court Encyclopedia.
 
CQ Weekly
Current
CQ Weekly Online offers full coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.
 
Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the renowned bibliography by Charles Evans
 
Contains full text of The Economist magazine from 1843 to five years before the present. It includes full color images and exportable financial tables, and allows searching of photographs, advertising, tables, maps, supplements, or commentary.
 
Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
 
FirstGov.gov
Dates vary

Open Access
Search engine for government information, with more than 186 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
Recommended resource
Provides coverage of over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide and serves as a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Also available from ABC-Clio
Recommended resource
The 4th edition of HSUS, published by the U.S. Census bureau. Contains data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History.
Recommended resource
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
1975 - present

5 concurrent users maximum.
describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Recommended resource
History Reference Center
prehistory - current
Includes full text of thousands of sources covering historical topics from pre-history to the present day throughout the World, with the option of a United States focus.
 
HLAS Online
1936-current

Open Access
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
 
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.
 
In The First Person
Dates vary

Open Access
In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
 
JSTOR
Dates vary
Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Left Index
1982-current

2 concurrent users maximum
Guide to literature of leftist and radical media, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
 
Large database covering federal and state court opinions, statutes, and regulations. Also has extensive coverage of news publications, news transcripts, and company information.
 
Includes Serial Set, CRDC Historical, Statutes at Large, and Congressional Indexes from LexisNexis.
 
Includes tables, abstracts, and links to statistical information from State, US, and International sources through LexisNexis. The American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, Index to International Statistics.
 
Contains full text of more than 10,000 accounts of civil and criminal trials published between 1600 and 1926, including trial transcripts, briefs, transcripts of oral arguments, records of legislative and administrative proceedings, arbitration records, and popular accounts of trials.
 
Collection of more than 61,000 full-text books and 466 periodicals on business and economics, published from 1450-1850.
 
all Nation articles from July 1865 through the present
 
Full text of the New York Times from 1980 to present (no images). Full text of New York Times Magazine and New York Time Book Review from 1997 to present.
 
Full Text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 - 2003, including original images.
 
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Current

2 concurrent users maximum
An online library of current event topics: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center's unique features include Viewpoint articles and access to statistics and government data placed in context.
 
PAIS International
1972-current
Covers articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, hearings and statistical directories about public affairs, including public policy and social issues.
 
Project Muse
Dates vary
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
 
A searchable database of thousands of papers sent by the authors for submission, covering all areas of social science. Abstracts and some full text available.
 
Social Sciences Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Social Sciences subject area
Full Text access to artcles indexed in the Social Sciences Index. Indexing begins at 1982, Abstracting begins at 1984, and fulltext coverage begins in 1994.
 
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
 
Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.
 
WorldCat
1200-current
Records for materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. WorldCat offers holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
 
Supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research drawn from 1000 journals drawn from the international serials literature.

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