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History Article Databases

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 almost 400,000 bibliographic entries.
ARTstor: ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers collections of art images and descriptive information. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. The collection represents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
Book Review Digest: Book reviews from almost 100 American and Canadian periodicals covering adult and children's books in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
HarpWeek 1857-1865: Full-text and images from Harper's Weekly for the Civil War period, 1857-1865. Full text is now searchable.
Historical Abstracts: This database provides abstracts to journals which discuss world history (excluding the United States and Canada). In addition, it contains some citations to historical books
Humanities Index: Single reference for periodical information in the humanities, with full text for selected journals from 1995.
JSTOR: Full text backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, searchable by journal, keywords, author, title etc. Files do not include the latest 3 -5 years.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: LexisNexis Academic provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from nearly 5,000 sources, most of them available in full text. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
Military and Government Collection: Military and Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 publications. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for 500 titles.
National Newspaper Index: Quick search access to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
New York State Newspapers: Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post
Newsbank: Full-text access, with archives, to 10 New York regional newspapers (including the Ithaca Journal and the Syracuse Post-Standard) and to 6 national newspapers (Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer).
Newspaper Abstracts: Index to 26 national and regional newspapers including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the USA Today, and the Washington Post.
Readers' Guide to Periodicals: Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Social Sciences Abstracts: International, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition: A multi-disciplinary fulltext database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from Education, Science, Humanities, Social Sciences , Business and a variety of other subject areas.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000: Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 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.
WorldCat: Online index of books and other material cataloged by libraries worldwide, includes records for web sites.

Broad Topic Databases

Academic Search Complete: Academic Search Premier contains indexing for over 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Coverage: 1975 - present
MasterFILE Premier: MasterFILE Premier contains full text for more than 1,950 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps & flags.
Coverage: 1975 - present
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition: A multi-disciplinary fulltext database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from Education, Science, Humanities, Social Sciences , Business and a variety of other subject areas.
Coverage: 1982 - present