Library Guides: History: Databases

Best Databases for History

America: History & Life with Full Text
Full text and citation searching of journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews on all aspects of North American history, including the United States and Canada. Covers publications from 1954 to present.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Full text and citation searching of journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews on all aspects of world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Covers publications from 1954 to present. Covers publications from 1954 to present.
JSTOR
Sponsored by: Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
Core academic ebooks and journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.
Project MUSE
Sponsored by: Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
Full text journals and books in the humanities and social sciences from several university presses and scholarly societies. 1993- present for some titles.

Other Helpful Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
A&HCI covers over 1,700 core journals plus selected articles from social science and scientific publications that are relevant to arts and humanities topics, including archaeology, architecture, music, dance, poetry, folklore, and more.
JSTOR Sustainability
An interdisciplinary digital collection of academic and policy research that focuses on issues of environmental stress and the impact it leaves on society. This database offers current full text journal articles and research reports.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses @ University of Nevada Reno
Includes thousands of records for dissertations and theses produced at the University of Nevada, Reno, 1964 - present.
Note: Most content is available as full-text after 1996. Titles not available online can be viewed onsite in print or microfiche, and are searchable in Library Search.

Historiographies

An historiography (history of the history) can be an excellent source for discovering the key scholarship on a topic. You can search for historiographies by adding a search term such as:

Historiography;
Review article; or
Review essay.

Databases such as America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts even include Historiography as a subject term. Another reliable source of historiographies is the journal History Compass.

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Browse History Journals

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