LibraryGuides: HIS 176 Course Guide: Databases

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Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Modern Languages, Modern Literatures, Political Science, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology

Research tools that help you find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, or other information sources like books, videos, and maps.
Some focus on a kind of source (like newspaper articles); most of ours focus on scholarly research in a specific academic field.

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America: History & Life
An index of scholarly literature, including citations for journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations, about United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.
Limit of 6 concurrent users
Historical Abstracts
Articles from several thousand scholarly journals covering world history from 1450 to present, excluding the U.S. and Canada (1955-present).
Limit of 6 concurrent users
JSTOR
Archive of 2,400 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and business. Narrow results by discipline(s).
Project MUSE
Provides access to the full-text of several scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Much of the journal content focuses on the humanities, arts, and social sciences (mid-1990s to present), plus recent books on global studies and literature.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
MEDLINE Complete
Articles from thousands of biomedical journals, compiled by the National Library of Medicine (1947-present).
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences (1952-present).
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy (1975-present).