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The Library Research Strategies page of this guide gives advice on how to structure a library search, and how to find journal articles. |
Most library research projects in U.S. history would start with a search in the article index: America: History & Life. |
Best Article Source for U.S. History
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
Where Historical Abstracts cites sources on the history of areas OUTSIDE of North America, America: History and Life primarily provides access to resources on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present day.
Other Article Sources for U.S. History
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
An index to millions of articles published in hundreds of periodical press runs (individual magazine and journal runs) covering the arts, humanities, social sciences, psychology and geography across more than 300 years (from the 1680s). - Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
An index to over 4,720 journals covering the arts, humanities, and the social sciences across more than 300 years (from 1865). Formerly named Periodical Contents Index (PCI). - JSTOR This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
JSTOR indexes just over a thousand scholarly journals; around 250 of these cover world history.
- NB: JSTOR's holdings are bound by a "moving window" of availability: the most recent two to five years of most journals are NOT available through this database. - Project Muse Journals This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
Even smaller than JSTOR, but covering many very useful titles, Project Muse is a searchable index of over 180 university press journals.
Three more useful resources for the pursuit of U.S. history:
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
The Web of Science provides access to three important databases: the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 to present), and the Science Citation Index (1945 to present).
If you want to know who has cited an important article or book since its publication, go to the Web of Science and do a Cited Reference Search. Search for the author's last name and first initial, plus the date of publication - no more than this. DO NOT fill in the Cited Work (title) field.
- UCSB eJournals[online resource]
Use this link to see if the UCSB Library provides online access to a specific journal; search for the title of the journal (NOT the title of the article within the journal)
You can browse the list of UCSB e-Journals ...
- by Category: Arts and Humanities and
- by Sub-Category: History.
- Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History This link opens in a new window[online resource; UCSB IP addresses only]
Covers scholarly writing focused on interactions between different peoples and cultures on four continents and many islands in the period between Columbus’ voyages to the New World in the late fifteenth century and the end of slavery in the Americas in the late nineteenth century.