Major Indexes and Databases

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Historical Abstracts
Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
Academic OneFile
Interdisciplinary article index covering all subjects in over 10,000 academic-related journals and magazines (the majority with full-text). Includes all the content of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage: 1980 - present. Also includes New York Times full-text content back to 1995. Go shortcut = go/onefile
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current.
JSTOR
Full-text archive of core academic journals, including 74+ in the field of history. JSTOR never has the the most current articles. Go shortcut = go/jstor
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI)
Indexes the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Some records include links to full-text in Periodicals Archive Online. Dates of coverage vary, but some publications go back before the 1900's.

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