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Guide to History Research Finding Journal Articles Databases Finding Full-text Book Reviews Databases Search the following databases for articles (or citations to articles) on your topic. Make use of the linked online help as needed. America History & Life "The premier bibliographic citation tool for the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It covers 2,000 English language historical journals including selected local history journals. The database also includes citations to dissertations and book reviews in American and Canadian history." Coverage is 1964 - present. Links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse. Historical Abstracts "Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada that are covered in its companion database, America: History and Life). It provides bibliographic citations and article abstracts on all aspects of history from over 2,000 scholarly journals, dissertations and selected books." Coverage is 1960 - present. Links to full-text articles in JSTOR and Project Muse. JSTOR The complete backfiles (full-text) of core academic journals in many disciplines, including 40 history journals. Coverage begins in the 1800s for some journals, and goes up through 2 to 5 years ago. For a some journals, links to recent content in Project Muse are included. Basic Search Help \| General Help (includes printing) \| History Search handout (pdf) Project Muse Full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from several university presses. Coverage is of recent issues only. Search help More history databases on GALILEO General and Multi-subject databases on GALILEO News and newspaper databases on GALILEO Back to Top Finding Full-Text If the database you are searching does not include the full-text of your article, search the Journal/Article Locator. Enter the journal title (not the article title!) to see if your article is available in full-text in a different database. The journal locator will also tell you if we have a journal in the McCain print or microfilm collections. Double-check by searching in SOPHIA for the journal title (not the article title!). If we don't own the journal, you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan, or, check to see if another local library owns it. Back to Top Book Reviews When searching for book reviews, its important to know the title, author and publication date of the book. Be sure to use a database or printed index that covers the appropriate time period. In many databases, you can limit your search to book reviews. In America: History and Life, select Advanced Search, then click the next to Document Type. Select "Book Review" and paste to search. You can do the same selection for the author field, then add title or keyword terms. In JSTOR database, select Advanced Search. Use the search fields at the top of the screen to enter Author or Title or Keywords to search. In the section Narrow Your Search To: These Types: check the box next to Review To select a specific journal or one or more disciplines, use the options These Journal Title(s): or These Discipline(s) and/or Journal(s): Project Muse also has books reviews. Use the Advanced Search and enter Author or Title or Keywords in the search fields at the top of the screen. Use the Limit Search: By Type: and select Review from the drop down list. For older books, you may need to use printed indexes, for example: Book review digest. New York: The H. W. Wilson company. Ref. Z1219 .C95 1905 - 1979 Book review index. Detroit, Gale Research Co. Ref. Z1035.A1 B6 1965 - 2000 Index to book reviews in the humanities. Williamston, Mich.: P. Thomson. Ref. Z1035.A1 I63 1960 - 1990 Back to Top Research Guide Home
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