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| Historical Abstracts |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; and with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: items published 1954 onwards
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present . Provides listings for journal articles, book
articles, books, and dissertations. Covers more than 2,000 journals published throughout the world. |
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| The Royal
Historical Society Bibliography |
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Type of Resource: Index, with abstracts; and with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: items published 1900 onwards (with some pre-1901 publications), updated 3 times a year
Provides listings of historical writings "dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for
which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present." It "aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for publications
since 1900." Includes books, articles in journals and collective volumes, and review articles. Now includes data from Irish History
Online and London's Past Online. The database as a whole contains listings for over 387,000 items |
Researchers who wish to be thorough should consult BOTH of the above resources.
Branching out in Your Research
Depending on the nature of your British history research, there is a wide range of additional resources that may be useful to you.
In order to assist you in branching out in your research, some of the core databases in various disciplinary areas are listed below. For help in
identifying further resources, consult the appropriate LWEB Subject Guide.
| America: History and Life |
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Type of Resource: Index, with accessible full text for selected items
Coverage: items published 1955 onwards, updated monthly
Covers writings about the history and culture of United States and Canada from prehistory through the recent past. Provides listings for journal
articles, book articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations, along with brief summaries of journal and book articles. Also provides
links to full text for selected journal articles. |
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| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature: ABELL |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text access to more than 135 journals
Coverage: items published 1920 onwards
For the areas of English literature, English language, and English philology, covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary
works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. All aspects and periods
of English literature are covered, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. British, American and Commonwealth writing are all represented.
Coverage is international, including material in languages other than English. |
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| Art Full
Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full-text for selected titles beginning 1997
Coverage: items published 1984 onwards; updated monthly
Indexes art periodicals in English and other Western European languages. Subjects covered include: archaeology, architecture, art history, city
planning, computer graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting,
photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. |
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| ATLA Religion Database
+ ATLAS |
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Type of Resource: Index, featuring full text for selected items
Coverage: Religion Index 1 - Periodicals, 1949-present; Religion Index 2 - Multi-author works, 1960-present;
Research in Ministry, 1981-present; Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-present; Methodist Reviews Index, 1818-1985.
An international index of religion and theology journals, festschriften, and essay collections, with some links to full-text articles. |
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Book Review Digest Plus
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Type of Resource: Index with excerpts; includes full text for many reviews
Coverage: 1983 onwards
Book Review Digest Plus brings together the data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book
reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes. |
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| British Humanities Index: BHI |
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Type of Resource: Index with abstracts
Coverage: items published 1962 onwards
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, 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. Topics include
architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, education, economics, foreign affairs, environment, cinema, current affairs, gender studies, history,
language, law, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion, and theatre.
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| Film literature index. |
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Type of Resource: Printed Index
Coverage: items published 1973 onwards; updated monthly
Location: BUTLER REFERENCE
Call Number: R058.0922 F48 |
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| Humanities Full
Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text for selected titles beginning 1995
Coverage: items published 1984 onwards; updated monthly
Provides listings, brief summaries, and in some cases full text, of articles in a wide variety of humanities fields, including: Archaeology, Area
Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social
Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology. Types of articles covered include: feature articles,
interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion
pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. |
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| International Film
Archive |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: International Index to Film: 1972 - present. International Index to TV: 1979 - present.
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF): Holdings of Archives, List of Members, and Bibliography of Publications. Bibliography of Latin
American Cinema |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
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Type of Resource: Index, with e-Link full-text access for selected articles
Coverage: items published 1963 onwards; updated 9 times a year
For the areas of literature, linguistics, language, and folklore, provides international listings of journal articles, book articles, books,
working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. |
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| The Music
Index |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: items published 1979 onwards
Covers topics in "every aspect of classical and popular" music as reflected in more than 670 international music periodicals. |
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| Periodicals Archive Online |
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Type of Resource: Full text
Archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and areas of general popular interest. Each
periodical is covered back to its first issue, regardless of when it began publication. International in scope, Periodicals Archive Online covers
periodicals in a number of Western languages.
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| Readers Guide Full
Text |
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Type of Resource: Index, with full text for many titles beginning 1994
Coverage: items published 1983 onwards
Provides listings, brief summaries, and in some cases full text, for articles from popular and general-interest periodicals. Coverage
includes literary works published in those periodicals (short stories, poetry, etc.). |
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| Readers Guide
Retrospective |
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: items published 1890-1982
Provides listings of articles in popular and general-interest periodicals. Coverage includes literary works published in those periodicals
(short stories, poetry, etc.). |
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| Social Sciences Full Text |
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Type of Resource: Index with abstracts; full text for selected titles 1995 onwards
Coverage: items published 1980 onwards
Provides listings of, or access to, articles from a wide range of social sciences journals. Subjects covered include: "Addiction Studies,
Anthropology, Area Studies, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies,
Ethics, Family Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, International Relations, Law, Minority Studies, Planning & Public
Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies."
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| TLS, The Times
Literary Supplement Centenary Archive |
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Type of Resource: Full text and full page image
Coverage: items published 1902-[1994, when complete]
A full-text and full-page-image online edition of The Times Literary Supplement beginning with its inception in 1902.
NOTE: for listings of articles appearing in TLS subsequent to 1994, see Humanities Full Text. |
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Victorian Database Online
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Type of Resource: Index
Coverage: 1945-2004
Searches over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to the present on every field of
nineteenth-century British studies.
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