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HIST 490 - Senior Seminar

This guide is for History Senior Seminars.

Find journal articles

Academic Search Complete

Why search here? Great starting point, with something for every subject!

What's included? Lots of full-text, mostly peer-reviewed and recent, with some older and popular sources

JSTOR

  • Why search here? It’s an excellent tool for scholarly articles and books/chapters from university presses, covering most disciplines.
  • What's included? The collection's strength lies in its complete back issues of journal titles covering 75 disciplines, while a weakness is a "moving wall" limiting access to the most recent journal issues - the coverage skews older, so it’s not always a great starting point for researching topics that need to have the most current sources.

Project Muse

  • Why search here? You need scholarly articles on the humanities and social sciences.
  • What's included? Project Muse is a collection of established and longstanding scholarly journals in full-text for humanities and social sciences journals. Strengths of this collection include its caliber of content with historical and the current holdings.

Humanities Full Text

  • Why search here? You want scholarly journal articles in the humanities
  • What's included? About 600 journals, mostly peer-reviewed, covering art, history, theatre, music, religion, film, philosophy, literature, and language.