Suggested Resources for History

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles
	America: History and Life (EBSCO)		Index to articles on United States and Canadian history
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)		Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada). .

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Indexes 250 alternative, radical, and left publications.
	American Memory Project		Collections of digitized primary sources and images in American history and culture
	Arts and Humanities Citation Index		Index to articles in arts and humanities fields
	Early American Imprints		Full text collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the British American Colonies/United States from 1639 through 1800; based on Charles Evans American Bibliography
	Early English Books Online (EEBO)		An online collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the English language in any country from earliest times to 1700.
	Encyclopaedia of Islam		Scholarly encyclopedia covering all aspects of Islam. Information about Fonts for Encyclopedia of Islam
	First Nations Periodical Index		The First Nations Periodical Index contains journals of mainly Canadian Native content. This Index is a tool providing access to information about First Nations for students (high school or university), educators, instructors and researchers.
	Google Scholar -- UMD Students, Faculty & Staff		Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. This campus version provides full text access to e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Duluth Library.
	Historical Census Data Browser		Demographic, economic, and social data from the U.S. Census, 1790-1970
	History Cooperative		Full-text of the American Historical Review and Journal of American History
	ITER Bibliography		NEW
	ITER Italicum		NEW
	JSTOR		A full text archive of over 100 journals; often date from first issue; usually don't include most recent 3-5 years.
	LexisNexis Academic		News sources, transcripts of interviews, legal resources, and more
	New York Times (Historical Online Archive)		Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 through 2000. Includes digital images of individual articles and pages from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
	New York Times (NewsStand)		Access articles from the New York Times, 2001 - present.
	Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers		British Library Newspapers consists of two major collections from the British Library: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers. For a list of titles, please click here.
	Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers		Full text articles from 19th century United States newspapers. For a full list of newspapers included, please click here .
	Oxford English Dictionary Online		The Oxford Engish Dictionary, containing more than 2.5 million quotations illustrates how words are used and their origins
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy
	Project Muse		Articles in arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	Proquest Congressional Publications		Guide to locating congressional publications, bills, testimony, public laws
	RefWorks		An online bibliographic management tool
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy
	Web of Science		Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		Catalog to over 4,000,000 books, microform, and av materials

 

 

Web Sites

 

United States History Primary Sources Online

Using Primary Sources on the Web (RUSA)

 

Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Thomas Ambrosi, Reference Librarian

Email:tambrosi@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7861

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