Some of the indexes of interest to historians are: 

    Online indexes 

• Academic Search Premier   This online resource indexes the contents of a great many journals, in all fields.  Links to full-text of the articles is often available. 
• JSTOR.  This is both an online collection of journals, and a search tool for articles in that collection. It’s strength is the deep retrospective file of journals – usually from the journal’s beginning.
• Project Muse   This online collection of recent journal articles is especially strong in the humanities, including history.
• ProQuest Journals    Another online search tool for journal articles. 
• Arts & Humanities Search    This index covers selected journals in the humanities.  In addition to standard subject keyword searching, you can search for cited references.  Covers 1980 - date.  On the library web site. 

    Paper indexes

• America: History and Life. This is the most comprehensive abstracting index to articles, books, and theses on North American history. On paper for the years 1964 -1998 at Ref E 171.A1 A48.
• Humanities  Index   This index covers selected journals in the humanities, including history, literature, religion, philosophy, language, and communication.  The years 1973 -1995 are available as paper volumes at Ref AI 3.H8.  
• Social Sciences Index    This index covers selected journals in the social sciences, including political science, psychology, anthropology, and economics.  The years 1973 -1995 are available as paper volumes at Ref AI 3.S62.
• Both of the above two titles were preceded by an index known as The Social Science and Humanities Index, and earlier the International Index  (begun in 1907).  Both are in paper at Ref AI 3.R49 
• British Humanities Index..  An index to British scholarly journals - On paper at Ref AI 3.B7, for 1962 -1992.
• Historical Abstracts.  This is the companion index to America: History & Life, covering journal articles about non-North American history.. The years 1955 -95 of this index are in paper at Ref D 299.H5.

Also on the web are the following other search tools of general usefulness.  

• GoogleScholar (scholar.google.com)  lets you search by keyword for articles, and sometimes links across to the full-text of the article.
• IngentaConnect  (www.ingentaconnect.com) - allows keyword search of the titles of articles in some 26,000 journals.  Does not offer automatic links to the articles themselves.

Among the journals covered by the indexes listed above are these:

A few journals have published cumulative"dsR22"s to their contents.  These include:

• American historic"dsR20"ew, general index 1935-1955, and 1955-1965."dsR22".A57 index)

There are many other indexes that may be useful depend"dsR20"the focus of your research.  They cover"dsR22"es in the professional journals of other disciplines, such as medicine, science, economi sk at the Reference Desk, or see the list on our web site, for other suggestions.

Finding the articles:   The most complete listing of available journals is provided through the link called Periodical Title Search on the library homepage.  Type in the TITLE of the journal you are looking for - to see whether it is available here.  Check to see what dates are available either in paper or online. If the title is not available or your article falls outside the years we have of the journal, you can request the article through Interlibrary loan.

Use the “ArticleLinker” button wherever it appears in a search result to see if the library has the journal in paper or in another online source.

Identifying more historical periodicals:  See this comprehensive list - Historical periodicals;  an annotated world list of historical and related serial publications. (Ref D 20.A1 B6 1961); and for journals published in the U.S. Canada, and the U.K., this more current guide: Historical journals: a handbook for writers and reviewers. (Ref D 10.A1S73 1993) 

DT   8/2008