Tom Glynn
History and Political Science Selector
glynn@rci.rutgers.edu
February 23, 2006

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: History- British Isles:
Online and Fulltext Databases

Online Indexes- History

America: History & Life [Rutgers Restricted]
- Cover all periods in North American history. Indexes articles written since 1964 in over 2,000 journals.

Historical Abstracts [Rutgers Restricted]
- Covers all continents, except North America, from 1450. Indexes articles written since 1955 in over 1,700 journals in more than fifty languages.

Online Indexes- Related Disciplines

History is the discipline that embraces all disciplines. Potentially any of the Libraries' online indexes could be of use in historical research. For the full list of all the indexes arranged alphabetically and by subject click here. The following indexes may be particularly useful for historians. All are [Rutgers Restricted]

Anthropology:		Anthropology Plus
Education:		ERIC
Literature:		MLA International Bibliography
Medicine:		Medline
Political Science:		World Wide Political Science Abstracts
Psychology:		PyschINFO
Sociology:		Sociological Abstracts
Women's Studies:		Women's Studies International

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premiere (EBSCO) [Rutgers Restricted]
- An extensive, multidisciplinary database with a majority of the articles available in fulltext. Includes both popular and scholarly publications.

Wilson Omnifile [Rutgers Restricted]
- Covers a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes some fulltext.

Fulltext Primary Resources

AMICA Library [Rutgers Restricted]
- An image database with tens of thousands of works of art from most of the major art museums in the United States.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) [Rutgers Restricted]
- Approximately 125,000 titles printed in English between 1645 and 1700. The records of all of these works are included in IRIS, so it is often more productive to search there, rather than in the index itself.

New York Times [Rutgers Restricted]
- The fulltext of the Times from the first issue in 1851 to two years prior to the current year.

Oxford English Dictionary Online [Rutgers Restricted]

Periodicals Index Online [Rutgers Restricted]
- Indexes articles that appeared in approximately 3,600 journals in the humanities and social sciences published between 1770 and 1995. Most of the coverage is from the twentieth century and at present only 150 or so of the titles are in fulltext.