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Indexes & Databases by Subject: History

A = All – 100% full-text or linked full text articles available
M = Most – no less than 50 % full-text or linked full text articles available
S = Some – less than 50% full-text or linked full text articles available

Use JAKE to determine where a specific journal is indexed and if it is available full-text.

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. 
America: History and Life
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America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
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America's Historical Newspapers The collection provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers.  It currently includes the following two series: Early American Newspapers, Series II, 1758-1900 and Early American Newspapers, Series III, 1829-1922.  Series 2 focuses on the period between 1820 and 1860 and offers several hundred thousand fully searchable issues from more than 250 significant 18th- and 19th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 3 focuses on the period between 1861 and 1900, and offers several hundred thousand fully searchable issues from more than 135 significant 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states.
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Historical Statistics of the United States – Millennial Edition The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. This resource includes over 37,000 data series. The new millennial edition has dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty.
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History Reference Center
This database f eatures full text for more than 1,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic archive of selected journals in various disciplines. It attempts to maintain complete journal holdings from the first volume, but current volumes (from the past three to six years) are not included.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides information from news,business, legal, medical and general reference sources
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LOUISiana Digital Library
This site, maintained by the LOUIS Louisiana Library Network, collects digital objects from universities, museums, and research centers throughout the state and offers them in one searchable location.
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New York Times Historical Archive 1851-2003
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003
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Project Muse
This collection of electronic journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more. Coverage for individual titles varies but is generally from the late 1990's to the present.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for 640 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 1,420 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features over 5,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
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Women and Social Movements This website is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.  It currently includes 79 document projects with more than 2,400 documents, more than 32,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 1,700 primary authors. It also includes book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

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World History Collection
World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.The majority of full text titles are available in searchable PDF, or scanned-in-color. Searchable cited references are also included in this database.
WorldCat
This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

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