LibGuides@Southampton: History: Journal Articles & Databases

Why Use Journals?

Articles are more up-to-date than books
They offer greater detail and insight into research
Peer-reviewed articles are considered more reliable

Understanding An Article Reference

A correctly formatted reference will tell you exactly where to find the article.

M. Kishlansky, 'Mission Impossible: Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and the Regicide', English Historical Review, 125 (2010), 844-74.

This article was written by M. Kishlansky, and the article's title is 'Mission Impossible: Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and the Regicide'. It was published in 2010 in the journal called English Historical Review. It was published in volume 125, and the article runs from page 844 to 874.

How Do I Reference An Article?

Referencing articles you've used is important - it demonstrates that you've researched your topic, it allows others to find the article to read for themselves, and it avoids accusations of plagairism.

Check out our Citing and Referencing page for more information.

Resources to find journal articles and more

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies This link opens in a new window
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Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1989-present.
European Views of the Americas 1493-1750 This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, books, collected essays etc relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500).
Internet Library of Early Journals This link opens in a new window
Search and browse the full text of a selection of 18th and 19th century British journals.
Includes the Annual Register, 1758-1778; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1843-1863; the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1750; Notes and Queries, 1849-1869; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1757-1777 and the Builder, 1843-1852
JISC Journal Archives This link opens in a new window
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Journal Archives brings together content from 8 major publishers: Brill, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, ProQuest, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Taylor and Francis.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes 1,500+ leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences,
Also lists select monographs and other academic sources such as Hebrew language journals
Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) This link opens in a new window
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The Oxford AASC provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 20,000 articles by top scholars in the field, with over 2,500 images, more than 700 primary sources, and nearly 200 maps collected to enhance this reference content.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies offers authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas with articles written by over 6,000 scholars from around the globe. Subjects include; Art History, British and Irish Literature, Cinema & Media, Chinese Studies, Education, Environmental Science, International Law, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Management Studies, Music and Psychology
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content. It includes ebooks and journals.
ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new window
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Access ProQuest's curated collection of journals, ebooks, dissertations, news, video and primary sources, all in one place. With ProQuest One Academic, four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global – are now available and cross-searchable on the same platform.
Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new window
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Revolution and Protest Online is a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements. This collection will include at completion 175 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials, and more than 1,000 images.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought, Vol. II: Islam This link opens in a new window
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Volume II, Islam is an extensive research database of the most influential thinkers of modern Islamic theology and tradition. At completion, the text will include 100,000 pages of foundational texts and contextual monographs from the late 19th century to the 2010s.
University Press Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
A vast and rapidly-expanding online research library providing full-text access to the best scholarly publishing from around the world, making disparately-published scholarship easily accessible and fully searchable on a single online platform.

Gale

Gale This link opens in a new window
Gale is a collection of primary and secondary sources. It is a collection of medicine, engineering, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics, religion and many other fields of science, books, archival materials and news sources.

Off-Campus Access

Accessing library resources from home

To connect to library resources such as databases and journals you will need to use the University’s VPN service called Globalprotect. Advice on how to set your connection up can be found on the iSolutions page How do I set up VPN on my device?

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