These are considered secondary source article collections. Most content is scholarly.

Most Useful

Database Full Text Coverage Scholarly
America: History & Life

Abstracts of journal articles covering American & Canadian history, from pre-history to the present.

Links to full-text via Get-It 1964 to current All
Historical Abstracts

Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.

Links to full-text via Get-It 1973 to current All
JSTOR

Contains (EXCEPT for the latest five years) core scholarly journals in sociology, history, economics, political science, mathematics, African-American & Asian studies, literature, humanities, music, and biological, health & general sciences.

Full-text 1838 to most recent five years Most
Project Muse

Full-text coverage for hundreds of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics

Full-text 1993 to current All
ProQuest - History

Search among ProQuest’s History databases

Some full-text; plus links to full-text via Get-It 1985 to current None

Also Useful

Database Full Text Coverage Scholarly
ArchiveGrid

Access to thousands of digital texts, audio files, and images from open access archives.

N/A current None
Military & Government Collection

Provides full text for hundreds of military related periodicals and general interest magazines.

Some full-text; plus links to full-text via Get-It 1975 to current Some
Handbook of Latin American Studies

An essential bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

None 1935 to current All
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index

Indexes journals from 1970 on providing information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean as well as Latinx and Chicanx people in the United States.

None 1970 to current All
Oxford English Dictionary

A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It includes etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet

Full-text current to current None
Dissertations and Theses Database: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection

Dissertations and Theses Database includes digitized dissertations in a variety of subject areas including Art, Communications, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, and Social Sciences.

Some full-text 1979 to current All
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