Research Guides: History: Finding Articles

Databases Strong in History

America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
This database is the definitive index of scholarship covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, with an index of 1,700 journals and a breadth from prehistory to present. From EBSCO.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) - Global Resources Network Catalog This link opens in a new window
Houses vast collections of specialized archival material for global studies, and provides topic guides for starting research in particular subject areas.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Digital historical documents from over 500 years of world history, curated by Gale and partnering libraries from around the world. Users can explore a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to books, articles, and other materials in world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Spanning from 1907-1984, this source offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals.
Iter Gateway This link opens in a new window
Middle Ages and Renaissance studies. Find citations to books, articles, essays, scholars, and a variety of specialized resources. Full text is available for a few journals and some unpublished letters.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text archive of high-impact academic journals in many disciplines. The archive does NOT include recent issues -- included journals generally begin with the first issue and stop 3 to 5 years ago. You can browse journals by discipline or by title, and you can search articles by keyword. Oxy subscribes to eight JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I through VII and the Ecology and Botany collection.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text of hundreds of journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from scholarly publishers, mostly university presses. Oxy subscribes to the Standard Collection.

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History Databases

Open Access History Journals

These open access publications may not be included in the article databases listed on this page. Searching through these resources can lead to additional articles on DWA topics.

A few of the open access history titles are listed below:

Accessing Material We Don't Own

Many of the books, journal articles and other resources you find can be accessed through Oxy. However, if not, you will need to request them through Interlibrary Loan. If you are logged into your Oxy account, most interlibrary loans can be made via a link associated with the article/book.