Finding Books
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Journal & Magazine Articles
The databases listed below provide indexing to journal and magazine articles. Full-text is linked directly in most of these databases, but often a databases will have a mix of full-text and citations-only. If full-text is not linked directly from these databases, you will see the 
button or another live link. Click this button/link to track down the full text of articles, if the full text is not already available in the database. If the library does not own or provide access to articles, you may obtain them via interlibrary loan.
To access the databases listed below, click on the links. Alternatively, these databases, along with many others, can be accessed via the library's Databases A-Z list.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. The database indexes academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowAmerica: History & Life is an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes journals from 1964 to the present and also includes citations and links to book and media reviews. Strong English-language journal coverage but also included are abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
- Bibliography of British and Irish HistoryThe Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) 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.
- JSTORProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in numerous fields of the humanities and social sciences, including history. Coverage varies for each title.
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals Archive Online is a full text archive of millions of articles published in over 700 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, in English and other Western European languages. Coverage is from 1802 to 2005.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 This link opens in a new windowIndexes articles published in the most important popular magazines published in the United States from 1890 until 1982.Provides some links to full text. A key resource for identifying what was published in the popular press during this era.