History Research Guide
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America: History and Life - History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present..Citations with abstracts, no full text.
Historical Abstracts - Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). Citations with abstracts, no full text.
JSTOR - Journal articles available from initial date of publication (many from the 1800's) until 3 to 5 years ago. Exact replication of the original journal article.
Project Muse - Full-text , user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
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History Journals and Online Journals available from the Canisius Library.
FirstSearch - A collection of databases that includes arts/humanities, business/law, education/social studies, science/technology, and general/books/periodicals. Abstracts only. No full text.
Web of science - Provides access to Science Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences that indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Also provides access to Social Science Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literatureof the social sciences that indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. Citations from 2001 forward.
L'Annee Philologique - Search academic journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, and bookreviews in classics and classical studies. Abstracts only. No full text.
Contemporary women's issues - Covers a broad range of women's studies topics. Abstracts only. No full text.
Biography reference bank - biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present. Thousands of images and articles on over 500000 individuals.
Oxford Reference - Dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates and quotations.