History

SELECTED ELECTRONIC DATABASES FOR HISTORY STUDENTS

Electronic Journals: Fulltext Indexes and Databases

The Smathers Library subscribes to numerous electronic services that provide access to fulltext journals and newspapers. All (with one exception*) are available via the UF Library Homepage and Online Catalog. Access is restricted to on-campus computers and to UF-affiliated persons from these web pages:

Database Locator http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/locator.html

Remote Logon with Gatorlink or Gator1Card http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufproxy.html

EBSCOhost– Academic Search Premiere(1975-present) Multidisciplinary index to scholarly journals and magazine, with many fulltext articles and book reviews.

GALENET -- Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-current) Multidisciplinary index to scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. Some fulltext and images available.

JSTOR A fulltext archive to 500 scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines in facsimile format (including images), from their beginnings until 3 – 6 years ago (cutoff date varies depending publisher embargo). DOES NOT INCLUDE recentissues/volumes.

19 th CENTURY MASTERFILE A compilation of periodical indexes:
Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)

Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922)

Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)

The Psychological Index (1894-1905)

Index to Periodicals (1890-1906)

(Stead’s) Index to Periodicals (1890-1906)
Cumulative Index to a Select List of Periodicals (1896-1899)

Catalog of Scientific Papers--Mechanics, Physics, Mathematics

PCI INDEX/FULL TEXT - Periodicals Contents Index Guide to the Tables of Contents of thousands of social sciences & humanities periodicals, from their first issues (some late 1700s) to the mid 1990s. About 300 journals are fulltext (others will be added), and the text of some can be searched by keyword.

PROJECT MUSE Access to the fulltext of recent volumes/issues of about 250 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

Guide to Electronic Indexes and Fulltext Articles by Journal Title

E-JOURNALS: A guide to determine which electronic index/database to use to access fulltext journals. Need an online article from Ethnohistory? E-Journals will tell you which index to use and the years covered.

Electronic Newspaper/Broadcast News Sources

ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVES: Pennsylvania Gazette(1751-1765) The so-called “New York Times of the18th century.” Fulltext and graphics include advertisements. This CD-ROM is available at Smathers Library East, Reference Desk. Not available online.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS: A 19th Century online collection of seven fulltext newspapers written by and for the African-American community during the 1800s.

AMERICAN PERIODICAL SERIES (APS Online) -- Contains fullpage images of over 1,400 American magazines and journals from colonial days to the beginning of the 20th century. Early publications represented are Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, Medical Repository ( America’s first scientific journal), and Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine. The Golden age of American periodicals in the 19th century saw the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in National Era, Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger, and Margaret Fuller's articles in The Dial. Publications of the American Economic Association and Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are among the early professional journals. Scribner's and Lippincott’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal are popular titles; Puck and McClure’s offer political and social commentary. Presented as digitized images, the database displays the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.

EAST VIEW RUSSIAN PERIODICAL DATABASE

ETHNIC NEWSWATCH Fulltext newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

GALENET – The Times ( London) Digital Archive, 1785-1985.

GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK (1830-1865) A magazine to “entertain, inform, and educate the women of America.” Fulltext and graphics.

HARPWEEK Fulltext and images of Harper's Weekly, 1857-1877.

LEXIS-NEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSE Includes a file of fulltext articles from state, national, and international newspapers, some going back 30 years. Other databases are for the U. S. Serial Set, recent Congressional documents, business, and law.

THE NATION DIGITAL ARCHIVE America's oldest weekly magazine, covering politics, culture, books and the arts, since 1865, from thought-provoking writers, activists, and artists such as Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Mead, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Luther King, Jr. Called "a dissenting, independent, trouble-making, idea-launching journal of critical opinion."

PROQUEST HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS

Christian Science Monitor (1908-1991)

New York Times (1851-2001)

Wall Street Journal (1889-1987)

Washington Post (1877-1988)

PROQUEST NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS

Los Angeles Times -- 1985 to current

New York Times -- 1995 to current

Wall Street Journal -- 1982 to current

Washington Post -- 1987 to current

VANDERBILT TELEVISION NEWS ARCHIVE Transcripts of broadcast news from ABC, CBS, NBC, since 1968, from CNN since 1995; videos of CNN segments since 1999.

Other 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 cites dissertations and reviews. For coverage of other regions from 1450 to the present, use

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS (1954- ).

WEB OF KNOWLEDGE – WEB OF SCIENCE    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

WILSON WEB Fourteen subject-specific databases for the social sciences, sciences, and the humanities, as well as Book Review Digest, Biography Index, Short Story Index, and Essay & General Literature Index.