History Databases
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
ATLA Religion Database - American Theological Library Association
A database designed to support religious and theological scholarship. Contains citations from international monographs, journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews.
· Coverage and update frequency: 1949-; semi-annually
· Citations, abstracts and some links to full text
American Memory
Information regarding the history and culture of the U.S. from over one million source materials. Compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library program; involves the participation of other libraries and archives as well.
· Coverage: 1700-
· Type: full text
Canadian Reference Centre
Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books in full text as well as over 84,000 full text biographies and an Image Collection of more than 193,000 photos, maps and flags.
CPIQ: Canadian Periodical Index
The electronic version of the
Canadian Periodical Index, with indexing of nearly 700 Canadian and international periodicals including
The Globe and Mail;
Maclean's weekly magazine;
Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the
Canadian Parliamentary Guide and
Canadian Newsmakers. With full-text articles from 240 periodicals.
· Coverage: 1988-
· Type: Citations and some full text (from 1995 to present)
First Nations Periodical Index
Accesses a listing of journals containing mainly Canadian Native content.
·2222 Coverage: 1992-
·3333 Type: citation index
Humanities International Complete
This is a comprehensive database of humanities content which provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing, it provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
·4444Type: citations and full text
Internet Library of Early Journals
Makes available considerable amounts of early journals - 18th C journals:
Gentleman's Magazine,
The Annual Register,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; 19th C journals:
Notes and Queries,
The Builder,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. This database is a joint project of the Universities of Birmingham Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford.
·5555 Coverage: 1731-1869
·6666 Type: full text
Making of America, Cornell University
And at
University of Michigan
Drawing on the depth of primary materials at the University of Michigan and Cornell University libraries, these two institutions are developing a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history. The collections are particularly strong in the areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
·7777 Coverage: 1840 - 1900 (Cornell)
·8888 Coverage: 1850 - 1877 (U of Michigan)
·9999 Type: full text
Medieval Feminist Index
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books, covering women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
·0000 Coverage: 1994-
·1111 Type: citation index
PARLIT [Parliaments & Literature]
Citations of books and articles regarding the role, structure, and working methods of national parliaments around the world, electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science.
·2222 Coverage: 1965- (with online access from 1992-)
·3333 Type: citations
Population Index
Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
·4444 Coverage: citation index and abstracts
·5555 Type: 1986-
POTUS: Presidents of the United States
Provides summaries of each President's term in office, including short biographies, election results, names and tenure of cabinet officials, as well as major accomplishments.
·6666 Coverage: 1789-
·7777 Type: full text
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
·8888 Coverage: 1400-
·9999 Type: full text
Television News Archive - Vanderbilt University
"The world's most available, extensive and complete archive of television news. Since 1968, the Archive has consistently recorded, indexed, and preserved network television news for research, review, and study. The Archive offers: loans of duplicated tapes, loans of compiled tapes and in-archive viewing."
·0000 Coverage: 1968-
·1111 Type: citations and abstracts
TOCS-IN [Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists]
Table of contents for approximately 160 journals and over 23,000 articles in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. Citations with some (about 6%) links to full text.
·2222 Coverage: 1992-
·3333 Type: citations with some links to full text
Victorian Women Writers Project
A collection of the full text of works of British women writers from the Victorian period. Includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
·4444 Coverage: 1830-1910
·5555 Type: full text
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
·6666 Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily