Find Articles & Documents
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present.
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window400 journals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index This link opens in a new windowInternational coverage of materials in government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas.
- RAND Online Publications This link opens in a new windowThe RAND Corporation pursues its nonprofit mission by conducting research on important and complicated problems. Included are reports on national security, terrorism, and various topics of interest to military personnel
About Articles
This page presents links to the databases provided by the UCSB Library that will be useful for research in the military science and military history. Although the bulk of the works indexed in these databases will be journal articles, the databases may also include citations to books, monographs, book chapters, as well as theses and dissertations.
Why Use Articles?
Articles provide focused discussions on specific topics. Because they are published more quickly and more frequently than books you will usually find the most recent works on a topic in the forms of articles.
Scholarly articles will always have citations to the author's sources in the form of footnotes, end notes, or a bibliography (or a combination of these). Peer reviewed articles are scholarly articles that were reviewed by experts in a field before being selected for publication.