Readers' Guide
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
This online equivalent of the printed index provides listings from over 375 popular press magazines and journals.
Finding Full-Text
The 'Find It' button will appear on a record if the journal article is not full-text within a particular database (if, for example, the title and abstract are available through the database but not the entire article). Check to see if we have access to the item, in print or electronically in another database, by clicking on the Find it button. A window will pop up directing you to a resource, if available, Please try searching our catalog for journals that might be in print and, if we don't have access to a particular article, don't hesitate to use Interlibrary Loan.
Subject Databases
Databases provide access to full-text articles from journals and books, primary source documents, citations and more that are specific to the study of History.
- America: History and Life Citations to journal articles, book reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. Some access is provided to the full-text of journals in the JSTOR archive, EBSCO Print +, the History Cooperative, and more.
- Historical Abstracts A complete bibliographic reference to scholarly literature for world history (excluding United States & Canada). Indexing and abstracting for over 2100 journals worldwide as well citations to book and dissertations. Some access is provided to full-text.
- Digital National Security Archive DNSA is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Content, selected by scholars in the field, includes introductory material, chronology, glossary & bibliography.
- Cambridge Histories Online Digitized books with unique & dynamic content for broad subject areas that include American, British, Economic and General History, History of Science, Political & Social Theory, Regional History, Religious Studies and Warfare.
- CQ Historic Documents
Selected primary source documents from 1991 to present covering: Business, Economy, & Work; Defense, Security, & Military Affairs; International Affairs; Media, Culture, & Life in America; Health Care, Social Services, Housing, and Education, etc. - CQ Researcher In-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Some reports include color photographs and charts. October 25, 1991 to the present. PDF files are available for full issues dating back to January 1996.
- History Cooperative Collection Online versions of several journals to which the SJU Library subscribes in print, including American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, and The William and Mary Quarterly and full-text access to open access journals available to the
- JSTOR history journals Archive of History journals as well as journals in "African American Studies", "Asian Studies" and more. Older volumes have been digitized, starting from the first issues and running up to 3 to 5 years ago; no current issues are available in JSTOR.
- Project Muse Access to full-text of quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. Coverage includes History, Medieval Studies, Native American Studies, and more. Searches can be limited to specific disciplines or journal titles.
Multisubject Databases
Resources that may contain articles on historical subjects.
- Academic Search Premier All academic disciplines. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
- ProQuest Research Library This comprehensive database contains indexing for about 2,600 periodicals, with full text from over 1700 of them. Smaller subsets of the database can be searched by selecting subject-specific modules, e.g. History & Politics from the Collections page.
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