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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
America: History and Life: A comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
NOTE: Includes links to full-text articles in Ebsco, JSTOR, and Project Muse databases.
Historical Abstracts: Historical Abstracts is a bibliographic database covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
NOTE: Includes links to full-text articles in Ebsco, JSTOR, and Project Muse databases.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes many journals in history, history of science and technology, African studies, African-American history, Asian studies, classical studies, Latin American studies, Middle East studies, and Slavic studies. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text, good resources for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full-text of selected articles in 1995.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies by title.

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American Memory: American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress's vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections.
Annals of American History: Full-text of over 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, and essays. Also has multimedia files including more than 500 pictures, hundreds of video clips, and audio of famous speeches.
Documenting the American South: A digital publishing initiative that provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe: These links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries.
Facts On File World News Digest: World news coverage from Facts on File News Services and Reuters, including the complete Facts on File World News Digest from 1940. Includes editorials, obituaries, government leaders, country profiles, plus additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events. Coverage is from 1940 to the present.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index: Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Historical New York Times: Searchable full-text of the New York Times back to the first issue of the newspaper with full page and article images. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage is from 1851 to 2003.
History E-Book Project: History E-Book Project includes over 1000 full-text e-books selected by historians in the fields of American, Asian, European, and Middle Eastern history, and the history of technology.
Kentuckiana Digital Library: Includes over 4,600 finding aids to help locate material in Kentucky archival collections, an electronic text collection of over 1,000 volumes related to Kentucky history, an Oral History Collection, and over 50,000 digital images.
Oxford Reference Online: History: Offers complete content of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas, including history. Search sources collectively or search within an individual title.
Repositories of Primary Sources: A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British & Irish History: a database containing 350,000 records on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and Commonwealth during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

Last updated August 26, 2008