Locating History Articles
The best indexes for articles about History are:
Historical Abstracts
Description: Contains citations with abstracts to literature on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes material on Canada and the United States. Subjects covered include current affairs, area studies, ethnic studies, folklore, historiography and methodology, international relations, oral history, prehistory, government and political science, popular culture, urban affairs, teaching of history, and other interdisciplinary studies of historical interest and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.
Dates of coverage: 1964-to present.
America:
History and Life
Description:
Contains citations, with abstracts to social science and humanities
literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture
and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present. Covers
books, dissertations, and articles from approximately 1,700 journals
published worldwide. Since 1988, the database also provides reviews
of films and video titles.
Dates of coverage: 1964- to present.
CPI.Q
The Canadian
Periodical Index Fulltext is the new full text version of the
Canadian Periodical Index. CPI.Q provides comprehensive coverage
of 400 Canadian and international periodicals. All subject areas
are represented, with an emphasis on mainstream and academic titles
available in Canadian libraries.
Dates of coverage: 1988-to present (Citations); 1995-to present (full text)
Academic
Search Premier
Academic
Search Premier provides full text for 1,360 academic, social
sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural
journals.
In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing
and
abstracts for 2,920 journals. Nearly 1,770 journals are peer
reviewed.
Dates of coverage: 1984-to present (citations/abstracts); 1990-to present (full text)
Project
Muse
Project
Muse provides online international subscription access to the
full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the fields of literature
and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics
and many others.
Dates of coverage: 1993-to present.
JSTOR
JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of
core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles.
As part of JSTOR's agreement with publishers, current issues (usually
the last 3 - 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and can be obtained
elsewhere.
Early Canadiana Online
Description: Contains well over 2 million pages from books, pamphlets, broadsides and government publications that together document Canada’s printed heritage up to the early decades of the 20th century. Topics include Canadian women’s history, colonial government, early Governors General of Canada, early official publications, English Canadian literature, history of French Canada, Hudson’s Bay, Jesuit relations, native studies, and reconstituted debates of parliament. The database allows full-text searching; bibliographic records for individual items are being loaded into the library’s catalogue.
Empire Online (Adam Matthew Digital)
Description: Contains documents (manuscript and print) relating to the British Empire, along with thematic essays by scholars, biographies and a chronology. Material is organized into five sections: Cultural contacts, 1492-1969, Literature and Empire, The visible Empire, Religion and Empire, and, Race, class, imperialism and colonialism, ca. 1607-1969. The database allows full-text searching; bibliographic records for individual items will be loaded into the library’s catalogue once the collection is complete in 2007.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 (Adam Matthew Digital)
Description: Documents key aspects of slavery worldwide over six centuries; includes case studies from the Caribbean and Cuba.
Defining Gender, 1450-1900 (Adam Matthew Digital)
Description: Contains more than 60,000 pages from manuscripts, pamphlets and early periodicals related to gender studies, along with thematic essays by scholars, biographies and a chronology. Material is organized into five sections: Conduct and politeness, Domesticity and the family, Consumption and leisure, Education and sensibility, and The body. The database allows full-text searching; bibliographic records for individual items will be loaded into the library’s catalogue once the collection is complete in 2007.
Military & Intelligence Database
Description: Database with 16,167,000 articles.
Dates of coverage: 1980-2011
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Description: The database provides access to citations and abstracts of journal articles appearing in political science journals. Years of Coverage: 1975 to the present. Major areas of coverage include: Comparative politics, Developing nations, Disarmament, Economic policy, Electoral systems, Environmental policy, Government/Political systems, History and theory of political science, International relations/trade, Labor relations, Military policy, Methodology and research technology, Political behavior, Political economy, Political psychology, Politics and law, Politics and communication, Politics and religion, Politics and society, Public administration, Security and defense, and Welfare systems.
Alexander Street Press
Description: More than a dozen separate databases featuring drama, oral history, letters, and diaries plus African American, native and women’s history in the United States.
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital)
Description: Provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.
Medieval Travel Writing (Adam Matthew Digital)
Description: Provides an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing. The core is a collection of medieval manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
Boolean Searching
For effective searching of the above electronic databases Boolean search strategy should be used.
Newspapers
Newspapers can be important primary sources for historical research. The library has historical coverage of several important newspapers including:
Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage
from 1844
"Canada's Heritage from 1844" is the electronic full-page newspaper archive of The Globe from June 1844 to The Globe and Mail until December 2005. Coverage includes all the stories, plus thousands of images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, births and deaths from more than 1.4 million pages of Canada's National Newspaper, dating back to the pre-confederation era.
New York Times (1851-2006)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2006, with a new year’s content added annually.
Pages of the Past: The Toronto Star
The Toronto Star - Pages of the Past, an archive that includes over a century of regional, national and international events, is available online, fully digitized, and searchable by date, keyword or subject.
Paper of Record subsumed by Google News Archive
The Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images from a collection of international papers spanning the 18th-21st centuries. Canadian and Mexican regional newspapers are well represented.
The Times Digital Archive (London, 1785-1985)
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is available, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to aid searching.
Washington Post (1877-1993)
Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1877. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.
Print Indexes:
For older resources not covered in the electronic indexes and databases, consult the Print Indexes and Abstracts located on the 5th floor, on the last two ranges of shelves. Some useful indexes in History are:
Canadian Periodical Index (1938-1988)
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1939-1997)
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