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History, World Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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Historical Abstracts

Covers articles, books, and dissertations on the history of the world, exclusive of the United States and Canada (for which see America: History and life).

JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive

An archive of journals that spans many disciplines. Provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Includes such History titles as The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, History in Africa, and The International Journal of Middle East Studies.

JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive Tutorials

Academic Search Premier

Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. Includes such titles as Journal of World History, Middle East Quarterly, Journal of African Cultural Studies , and Judaism.

Historical New York Times

Offers full page and article images with searchable full text. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. For more recent full text indexing, see Academic Search [Lexis-Nexis].

Coverage: 1851 - 2007

Historical New York Times Tutorials

Index to the Times (print index)

Indexing The Times from 1785, 1786, and 1790-1981, the title varies but they are arranged chronologically in the Reference Index area on Steely's third floor. The newspaper itself is available in Periodical/Microforms on the fourth floor.

Coverage: 1906 - 1973

Aluka

An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of resources from and about Africa. Includes archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, reference works, three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.

Index Islamicus

Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes journals, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews.

Coverage: 1906 - present

Index Islamicus Tutorials

Project Muse

Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, arts and social sciences. A non-profit collaboration from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Includes such titles as Journal of Victorian Culture, Late Imperial China, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Film & History.

Coverage: 1995 - present

Project Muse Tutorials

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (print index)

Located in the Reference Index area; an index to some 150 U.S. and British periodicals published from 1881 to 1907.

Coverage: 1802 - 1906