Library: HIST 325: Public History: Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Articles Databases

Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life
Search across two important scholarly article databases in history. You can also search Historical Abstracts (world history) and America: History and Life (American history) separately.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers well-respected scholarly journals, across a wide range of disciplines. Before searching, you can limit by discipline (scroll down) and by date.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Offers over 400 journal titles from 100 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles in many disciplines. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles. You can limit by Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals.
Education Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 in full text.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
A database with articles in librarianship, information science, library management, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, and online information retrieval.

Google Scholar
Full text searching of articles and books. If you find a journal article of interest, try the "cited by" link. You can also add Library Links.
E-Journal Finder (New)
If you want to search a specific journal, such as the Annual bulletin of historical literature, search for the journal name in Ejournal Finder to find the full text.
Library "Everything" Search
Search across many Helmke Library databases to find both primary sources and scholarly materials. After searching, try the filters at the left hand side. This is also a good place to look for items found in footnotes or a bibliography. If you don't find the full text of the item you're looking for, make a Document Delivery request. The "Everything" search is also the default search on the Library's homepage.