LibGuides: History: Databases (Locate Articles)

Scholarly Journal Articles

The UAH Library holds extensive scholarly journal articles, available either in print in the library or through online databases. Scholarly journal articles are sometimes called peer-reviewed or refereed articles. This is because scholarly articles have been subject to the review of experts in the author’s field of study prior to publication.

Here are the best databases that you can use to locate scholarly journal articles.

Note: Be careful as some of these databases also contain short magazine articles that are not peer-reviewed. You will want to avoid those magazine articles.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science)
Salmon Library has Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --2003-2011. CSA Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.
Cambridge Journals Online - Advance Search
UAH subscribes to full-text for approximately 33 of these journals. Select the checkbox next to "Restrict search to journals you have full-text access to" in order to limit your search to available articles. Cambridge Journals Online is the online content delivery service for Cambridge University Press’s collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Clase Periodica This link opens in a new window
Clase and Periodica is an index of articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together, they offer access to citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

HighWire
Stanford University's HighWire Press hosts and maintains the web versions of a variety of journals in the subject fields of science, technology and medicine. HighWire Press makes available free online access to the full texts of more than 137,000 articles -- largely though back issues. Availability of back issues/ free trials vary by journal.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Indexes more than 1,100 scholarly interdisciplinary publications of interest to students and scholars of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Covering history, languages, and literature, this database indexes journal articles, reviews, and books.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. Subjects covered include: African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, feminist studies, film studies, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, science, Slavic studies, sociology, and statistics.

Oxford University Press Journals This link opens in a new window
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By unearthing the foundations of current research, the Oxford Journal Archive enables readers to explore the changes in opinion over the past 140 years and puts present knowledge into context.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Project MUSE - Browse Journals
A collection of over 400 electronic scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from nearly 100 not-for-profit publishers. Back issue archives are available, with some titles beginning with volumes as early as 1993.
ScienceDirect
Salmon Library subscribed to this database up to 12/31/2011.
Citation Databases:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --2003-2011
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --2003-2011
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --2003-2011
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Contains Social Sciences and Humanities. Provides access to the full text of more than 1,800 Elsevier electronic journals in chemistry and chemical engineering; clinical medicine; computer science; earth and planetary sciences; economics, business, and management science; engineering, energy, and technology; environmental science and technology; life sciences; materials science; mathematics; physics and astronomy; and social science; as well as indexing and abstracting for electronic journals from other publishers.