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Articles in Historical Journals and Magazines

Core Bibliographic Databases

This link opens a new window - Info About America: History and Life America: History and Life   (All JHU (incl. International))
           

Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada.  Includes abstracts of articles and citations to book reviews.  Also provides abstracts for dissertations.  Coverage extends back to 1954.                                                                                                                                      

This link opens a new window - Info About Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts   (All US JHU)
 

Covers the scholarly literature on the history of the modern world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.  Includes abstracts of articles and citations to books reviews.  Also includes abstracts for dissertations.  Coverage extends back to 1964.

This link opens a new window - Info About International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)  (All US JHU)
            

An interdisciplinary bibligraphy of the Middle Ages that covers Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa during the period 400-1500.  Coverage began in 1967 and includes over 4500 periodicals, 5000+ miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogues.)  Does not include book reviews.

This link opens a new window - Info About Iter Italicum Iter Italicum  (All US JHU)
       

Provides a searchable bibliography of literature about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance drawn from over 1000 journal titles published since 1842.  Also includes selected essays from over 1500 collected works published since 1995 and selected book reviews from over 107 scholarly journals published since 1943.

Additional Bibliographic Databases

This link opens a new window - Info About Academic Search Premier Academic Search Premier  (All US JHU)

          

A multi-disciplinary database that provides the full-text for over 4,000 scholarly and general interest publications, as well as indexing and abstracting for all of the over 8,000 titles in the collection.
This link opens a new window - Info About JSTOR JSTOR  (All US JHU)

           

An archival collection of core scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines.  Journals are digitized from their first issues to a moving wall of three to five years from the present (i.e. no current issues).  At present, over 40 history hournals are archived in JSTOR.

This link opens a new window - Info About Periodicals Index Online Periodicals Index Online  (All US JHU)

Searches the table of contents of over 4000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their date of inception through 1996.  The earliest issue included is from 1790.

This link opens a new window - Info About Project  MUSE Project MUSE  (All JHU (incl. International))
Provides online access to the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and over 20 other non-profit presses in the social sciences and humanities.   Most titles do not include coverage before 1993.
This link opens a new window - Info About Web of Science Web of Science  (All US JHU)
Combines Science Citation Index (1945-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), and more.  Allows for a cited reference search by author or journal title.  Also includes a current contents alert service and a journal citation report service. 

For retrospective coverage of history journals, see als

C.R.I.S.:  The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974.
MSEL GEN REF D4 .C14 1977 Quarto

More Electronic Resources for History 
This link will lead you to a list of electronic resources identified as useful for the study of historical topics.  In fact, depending on your particular topic, you may want to look for electronic resources identified for other fields of interests, such as literature or art history.  The library maintains an alphabetical list of all of our electronic resources and a list of electronic resources by subject.  Link to Article Indexes, Full-text Databases, Reference Works, and Datasets.

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