BC Libraries Research Guides
Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
Research Guide: Irish News and Newspapers
Historical Abstracts
Covers articles from over 2000 journals, plus books and
dissertations in world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from
1450, including political, diplomatic, military, economic, social, cultural,
religious and intellectual history.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1982 - present)
The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that provides unique access to the bibliographic information and cited references of all items published in more than 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from over 7,000 journals in the sciences and social sciences.
British Humanities Index (1962 - present)
BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
Expanded Academic ASAP (1980 - present)
Academic and popular journals indexed for recentyears in
all subject areas with some full text, depending on the publication.
FRANCIS (1984 - present)
FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly.
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI Full-text) (1770-1995)
Over 3000 scholarly journals from their inception to
the present are indexed in 23 broad subject areas in several Western languages.
Some of the citations have links to full text of the articles. Many history
journals are covered, including several dozen devoted solely to American history.
JSTOR
The JSTOR project is a digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals in anthropology, Asian Afro American studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, sociology, and statistics.
Coverage is from two to five
years ago (a moving wall) back to the first issue of the journal, so it has
extraordinary value for its retrospective coverage as well as its full-text
access.
Project Muse
Unlike JSTOR, this includes only recent issues of journals
full text, but not the backfile. With coverage of over 200 journals in arts
and humanities, social science, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins and selected
other publishers, it includes many history journals full text which can be searched
online. Use in tandem with JSTOR for full text retrieval of history articles
from scholarly journals on your paper topic.
Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)
From the University of Ulster, this site contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also information on Northern Ireland society. New material is added regularly and there are also frequent updates, so information on particular pages may change.
Archival Resources
Provides detailed finding aids for archival collections,
with over 730,000 collection records and nearly 48,000 collection guides. Supports
full-text searching and display, and some finding aids links to digital images
of archival material. Indexes finding aids that have been encoded using XML
and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), in addition to providing access to RLG's
AMC (Archival and Mixed Collections) file.
ArchivesUSA
Access to holdings and contact information of more than
5,500 repositories and online links to over 2,200 repository home pages. Indexes
to over 149,000 special collections and over 5,000 links to online finding aids.
Includes three major archival information resources (NUCMC, National Union Catalog
of Manuscript Collections and NIDS, the National Inventory of Documentary Resources
in the United States).
ARTstor
An ever-expanding database of over 300,000 images plus
descriptive information of art, architecture, painting, photography, sculpture,
decorative arts and design, archeological and anthropological objects, and visual
and material culture, as well as the software tools to organize, manipulate,
and present them.
Oral History Online
Oral History Online offers more than 30,000 pages of full-text content, including Ellis Island oral history narratives, exclusive Black Panther party interviews, and other oral histories. It is also an index to English-language interviews that are either publicly available on the Web or held by repositories and archives around the world, including more than 100,000 index entries, with links to full text when transcripts are available online.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2001)
Full-text access to historical content of the New
York Times, including advertisements. Search for words in the entire text
or in the citation and abstract (headline and first paragraph). Advanced search
includes searching by year and by article type (e.g., death notices, editorials).
Displays PDF images of the citation article, including its extension to other
pages.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
Two hundred years of "the world's newspaper of record,"
the Times of London, is offered in searchable full text, including news
articles, editorials, obituaries, and advertising. Either individual articles
or entire pages can be viewed as full-image facsimiles.