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General History Current SubscriptionsA list of the journals currently subscribed to with General History funds. It does not reflect all History titles owned by the Libraries.  Please check WebLUIS for titles not on this list. 

Guides to the Literature

Major Collections/Resources Electronic Journals: Full Text Databases and Guides

     Smathers Libraries subscribes to numerous Internet services that provide access to full-text journals and newspapers, including some history titles. Access is restricted to UF-affiliated persons.

   JSTORA fulltext archive to 100+ scholarly journals in various disciplines, from their beginnings up through several years ago (cutoff date varies depending on agreements with publishers). DOES NOT INCLUDE recent issues/volumes (last few years.)  Includes images, graphs, and other illustrations. Requires Adobe Acrobat software, or JSTOR's own software, available from the site.
             NOTE: The UF Library's print collection of journal titles and volumes included in JSTOR has been sent to STORAGE facilities, but they may be ordered through the Circulation Desk.

    PROJECT MUSEAccess to the fulltext of recent volumes/issues of 100+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

   LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSEOne of the main features of this database is the file for continually updated fulltext articles from thousands of local, state, national, and international newspapers, some going back twenty years.  Other files contain recent Congressional documents, company profiles and financial reports, business trade journals, and legal databases.

   HARPWEEKFulltext and images of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1877, an influential newspaper of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction years. (more description)

***Indexes to periodicals that provide partial fulltext coverage:****

                ACADEMIC INDEX (1996-present)Primarily an index to articles and reviews in scholarly journals and popular magazines.  About 25% of the articles are available in fulltext.

               ACADEMIC INDEX (1982-1995)

               EBSCOAcademic Search Premier: Recent coverage (1990s; some earlier) of articles and book reviews.

               GALEGROUP: Expanded Academic ASAP(1980-current.)Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers, with fulltext and images.

               WILSON SELECT PLUSA fulltext resource available via First Search.

Electronic Indexes and Abstracts

     AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE(1964-    )Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.  Abstracts of articles, and also cites dissertations and book/media reviews.

EUREKA/RLIN (available from the "Quick Links" page via Netscape Navigator browser)
          Links to the following files:

  

RLIN UNION CATALOG 

Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute)

Anthropological Literature Index 
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 
Bibliography of the History of Art 
Chicano Database 
CURL Union Catalogue 
Deutsche Bibliothek Database 
English Short Title Catalog 
FRANCIS (International Soc. Sci. & Humanities) 
Hand Press Book 
Handbook of Latin American Studies 
History of Science, Technology, Medicine 
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals 
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals 
Inside Information PLUS 

RLG Serials File
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies 
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs 
World Law Index
      FIRST  SEARCH     (Must be accessed from the UF Libraries Home Page or the list of Quick Links.)  A collection of over 60 databases acquired through Florida's Distance Learning Library Initiative.  Includes resources for the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Sciences.  (List of databases available)

     HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS(1954-   )   Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).  Abstracts of articles and citations for dissertations and book/media reviews.

     PCI WEBPeriodical Contents Index.  An electronic index to the Tables of Contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to the early 1990s.

     INGENTA  An index to articles in over 20,000 multidisciplinary journals  (approximately 11,000,000 articles) published since Fall 1988.Some fulltext.

WEB OF KNOWLEDGEComprises three indexes to scholarly articles and book reviews.  These indexes can be searched individually or in combination: 

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present 

Access to these services and others is also available:

Other Campus Links

    University of Florida History Department
    Florida Museum of Natural History
    Oral History Program
    UF Home Page
 

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Link to the Web addenda to The Cambridge Ritualists: An Annotated Bibliography of the Works by and About Jane Ellen Harrison, Gilbert Murray, Francis M. Cornford, and Arthur Bernard Cook (Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990).

 

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