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Databases for finding journal articles (History)

Other Useful Databases for History

Book Review Digest This link opens in a new window
Cites and excerpts reviews appearing in periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. which cover English-language fiction and non-fiction. Children's books are included, but excluded are: textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences.
Subject Coverage:
thousands of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1983 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 600,000 records
C-Span Video Library This link opens in a new window
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Records, indexes, and archives all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text.
Subject Coverage:
House and Senate floor proceedings, public policy discussions and debates
Dates of Coverage:
1987 to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 160,000 hours
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Is a topical weekly publication that explores a single "hot" issue in-depth. Each weekly report seeks to be an objective, balanced treatment of the topic and runs approximately 12,000 words.
Subject Coverage:
social issues, teen issues, the environment, health, education, science, and technology
Dates of Coverage:
October 25, 1991 to present
January 1996 (PDF files included)
January 2001 (color PDF files included)
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
not available
DART - Europe E-Theses Portal This link opens in a new window
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Subject Coverage:
European dissertations and theses
Dates of Coverage:
1597 to present
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 106,000 research theses
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Indexes doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers Master's Theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations going back to 1637. Nearly half of the records link to the full-text document.
Subject Coverage:
covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
Dates of Coverage:
1637 to present (for selected British and European dissertations)
1861 to present (for indexing of U.S. dissertations)
July 1980 to present (for dissertations with abstracts)
January 1988 to present (for Master's Theses with abstracts)
1997 to present (for the full-text of most dissertations)
2013 to present (for indexing and full-text of theses produced at Morehead State University)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 3,800,000 records
more than 1.700.000 full-text documents
European Views of the Americas This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Subject Coverage:
botany, the Catholic Church, commerce, economics, fisheries, geography, Indians, Jesuits, law, mineral resources, navigation, pirates, shipping, slave-trade, tobacco
Dates of Coverage:
1493-1750
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 32,000 records
Facts On File: World News Digest This link opens in a new window
Brings together and enhances more than seven decades of domestic and international news.
Subject Coverage:
political, social, and economic news events
Dates of Coverage:
October 1940 to present
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
more than 92,000 records
GPO govinfo This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text of many government documents. It updates and replaces GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) website.
Subject Coverage:
covers numerous subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
1994 to present
Kentucky Digital Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Is a digital archive of historic Kentucky newspapers.
Subject Coverage:
local news events
Dates of Coverage:
1787 to 2018
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 86,000 items
Kentucky Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text access to hundreds of academic monographs from the University Press of Kentucky.
Subject Coverage:

humanities, social sciences, film, television and radio, history, military studies, and political science
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
whenever updates are purchased
Size:
more than 100 books
Public Affairs Information Service {PAIS International} This link opens in a new window
Indexes the literature relating to public administration and public policy. Coverage is selective and international.
Subject Coverage:
agriculture, banking, business, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, health, international relations, law and legislation, political science, public administration, social sciences, and statistics
Dates of Coverage:
1972 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 628,000 records
Notes:
PAIS selectively indexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories.
In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers comprehensive information on research methodology primarily in the social sciences (but in other disciplines as well) taken from hundreds of publications by SAGE.
Subject Coverage:
research methodology
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
annually (in December)
Size:
more than 100,000 pages of content
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to historical U.S. Census data. It includes reporting and mapping tools.
Subject Coverage:
demography
Dates of Coverage:
1790 to present
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
unknown

Tutorial:
https://socialexplorer.libguides.com/socialexplorer