Research Guides: European History From the French Revolution: Databases

Key History Databases

Historical Abstracts
Indexing and abstracting for periodicals and dissertations on all *except* US and Canadian history. Covers 1450 to present, published since 1955. Many links to full text.
Academic Search Complete
Large scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database containing over 5300 journal titles, about half with full image and/or full text articles. Most indexing dates back to 1993, and most full text only goes back to 1998.
JSTOR
A full-image collection of the back issues of over 1100 scholarly journals representing most major academic disciplines including 300 of the top journals in history. Access from first issue to within 3-5 years of present (embargo). This will get you back past where Historical Abstracts and Academic Search Complete begin.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index forms the bibliographic spine of 19th century research, comprising tens of millions of records and providing integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material. Users can query its many component indexes simultaneously or can conduct more detailed research using search pages for specific indexes or content types.
Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice

Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across North America and the UK, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice. In addition to the primary source documents there is a wealth of useful secondary sources for research and teaching; including scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.

British Periodicals

Anthropology, art, education, history, literature, music, philosophy, political science, science, social sciences
Periodicals from late 17th to early 20th century

Periodicals Archive Online
Covers almost 800 fulltext journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences published from 1770 to the present.
Project Muse
Over 100 full-text journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, over 40 of them in history. None of the holdings are older than 1995, some only back to 2000.
Google Scholar
Covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. Click on Scholar Preferences, go down to Library Links, fill in University of Texas at Tyler, then Find Library. Check box.
Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online
Includes primary source material published from 1543-1945, possibly the greatest single source for the study of international women's history and the feminist movement. Includes books and periodicals.