21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods

Finding Scholarly Articles

MIT Libraries subscribe to several relevant databases; some contain full text, others contain citations & abstracts only. You may want to search more than one to be most comprehensive. (See Locate Full Text for guidance in tracking down the documents you need.)

Don't limit yourself to the databases listed below! Many others in different disciplines (e.g., art, film, or music) might also be useful for your research. Use VERA (Virtual Electronic Resource Access) to find additional resources.

INDEXES & ABSTRACTS

HISTORY & OTHER DISCIPLINARY INDEXES

America: History and Life (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/america

• Covers articles published 1964 - present
• Covers articles about the the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• Citations and abstracts only but with links to some full-text.

Historical Abstracts (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/hist-abs

• Covers articles published 1954 - present
• Covers articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
• Citations and abstracts only but with links to some full-text.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/bas

• The online version of the BAS currently contains about 450,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc., published from 1971 until the present day. It encompasses the full content of the annual printed volumes of the BAS from the 1971 to the 1991 editions (the 1991 edition was the last volume available in print form). In addition, there are many references to publications after 1991, including citations to all articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian studies (up to the present in many cases), and a substantial number of additional citations from earlier years in South Asian studies.

Women's Studies International (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/wsi

• Includes over 232,000 records from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts.

GENERAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY INDEXES

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (part of Web of Science) (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/webofsci

• Covers articles published 1973 - present
• Cited reference searching retrieves papers that have referenced earlier works by a specific author

• An index to more than 400 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
• Indexing from 1984-present; abstracts from 1994.

• Coverage: 1907-1984

PAIS International (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/pais

• An index to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters,and statistical directories about public affairs.
• Coverage: 1972-present

ProQuest Research Library (MIT only)
http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=http://www.umi.com/pqdauto?COPT=SU5UPTAmREJTPUc2

• Online access to thousands of journals, periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, and magazines covering a broad range of subject. Many are in full text.

FULL-TEXT ONLINE JOURNAL COLLECTIONS

JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive (MIT only)
http://libraries.mit.edu/get/jstor

• Contains full-text of articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals (usually not the most current)

Project Muse (MIT only)
http://libproxy.mit.edu/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/

• Contains full-text of articles from Humanities and Social Sciences journals (only recent issues)