These are our two citation databases for history. They combine breadth of coverage with a history disciplinary focus. We do not have full text of everything in these databases.
JSTOR is a journal repository. Every journal in JSTOR has 100% full text, but a journal only appears in JSTOR at all if the publisher has made and agreement with the repository. So, there are only about 400 total history journals in JSTOR, while America: History and Life indexes from 1800 journals. This difference in breadth of coverage is why the two databases above should be your starting point for research, not JSTOR.
But where JSTOR shines is that you can search the full text of every article in there. Trying to research an event, place, or person that is rarely featured in articles? Go to JSTOR and find every single article that mentions that person or thing even a single time!
Full text scholarly journal articles in Arts & Sciences, Biological Sciences, Business, Health, and General Sciences.
These options will all expand your research by moving from focusing on a history disciplinary perspective to finding scholarship from other disciplines.
We have databases that play the same role as America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts for almost every field of study. A few examples given below, but you can find more through our database listings (use the subject pull-down menu).
The premier online full-text resource serving the research, teaching and professional needs of anthropologists.
Citations and some full-text for scholarly journals, essays, book reviews, and multi-author works from the American Theological Library Association.
Education Source contains the largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals providing scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals, and policy makers. It covers all levels of education — from early childhood to higher education — as well as all educational specialties.
Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia from 1972 to present. Essential subjects covered include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism, gender identity and more.
A comprehensive and high quality sociology research database encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.
Full-text journal articles, books, and conference proceedings content covering areas in political science including comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations, and political theory.
Cross searches all the databases mentioned so far, plus many more.
Google algorithm and search interface are very different from what library databases use. Sometimes this is a good thing!
Using Limiters in Historical Abstract and America: History and Life
Using Advanced Search with Boolean Searching
An introduction to narrowing searches in JSTOR and also using to find both primary and secondary sources.
