History

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Key databases
Worth a look
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
High impact journals
Subject guides
Web sites and Internet resources

See the Classics Research Guide for Greek and Roman history.

Key databases

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

RHS: Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Provides an authoritative guide to modern works on the history of Britain and Ireland for the period from 55 BC to the present.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Informit Full Text
Covers architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports.
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A number of Australian databases are useul. Try the Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, Australian Public Affairs Full-Text, AHB (Australian Historical Bibliography), AHRR (Australian Historic Records Register), AUSCHRON (chronology of historic and current events) and MIHILIST (Australasian military history).

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

ACLS Humanities E-Book Full Text
The Humanities E-Book Collection consists of nearly 2,000 full-text titles covering archaeology, history, art history, literature, musicology, political science and religion.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Worth a look

Anthropological Index Online
Indexes periodical literature on languages, linguistics, culture, archaeology, ethnography, religion and civilisation.

Australian Key Journals
An indispensible resource for historians, social scientists and students of Australian politics. Indexes both peer-reviewed titles and mass media titles.

British Library Direct
Search the last 5 years' worth of articles from the 20,000 most heavily requested titles. Buy articles online.

Duke Scholarly Collection Full Text
Covers humanities and the social sciences.
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Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

American History Through Literature 1820-1870
American History Through Literature 1870-1920
Cold War Reference Library
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
ORB The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.

Useful titles include historical dictionaries, companions and encyclopedias for Australia, Britain, US and Canada. Military history, local and family history, ancient Egypt and world history are also covered.

High impact journals

The following History journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Historical Studies:

American Historical Review 1895-2002 and in print at Call Number P905/AME
American Quarterly 1949-1995, 2003- (1 year delay for most current issue) and in print at Call Number P051/A1522
Australian Historical Studies 1994- and in print at Call Number P994.005/HIS
Britannia 1970-2004 and in print at Call Number P942.005/BRI
Comparative Studies in Society and History 1958-2002, 1997- and in print at Call Number P905/COM
English Historical Review 1886-2001, 1996-
Environment and Planning C is in print at Call Number P307.12/E61c
Environmental History 1998-
Ethnohistory 1954-1999, 2000-
Historical Journal 1958- and in print at Call Number P905/H6734
History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History 1960-2003, 2006- and in print at Call Number P905/HIS
History of Political Thought 1994- and in print at Call Number P320.01/H673
History Workshop Journal 1996- and in print at Call Number P905/H6739
Huntington Library Quarterly 2000-
Journal of African History 1960-2002, 1993- (Gale databases)
Journal of American History 1964-2002, 1988- and in print at Call Number P973.05/JOU
Journal of Modern Italian Studies 1997-
Journal of Social History 1995-, 1993- (Gale databases)
Journal of Southern History 1935-2002, 2001-
Journal of the History of Sexuality 2001- (1 year delay for most current issue), 2002- (Gale databases) and in print at Call Number P306.709/J86
Late Imperial China 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Media History 2000-
Nations and Nationalism 2006- and in print at Call Number P320.44/N277
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is in print at Call Number R920.041/O98
Pacific Historical Review 1932-2004, 2002-
Renaissance Quarterly 1967-2004, 1994- (Gale databases)
Reviews in American History 1973-1994, 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Revue des Etudes Greques is in print at Call Number P880.5/REV
Seventeenth Century 1999-2007, 2002- and in print at Call Number P909.6/S479
Social History 1997-
Social Science History 1976-1999, 2000-
William and Mary Quarterly 1892-2002 and in print at Call Number P973.05/WIL
Women's History Review 1992-
Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik in print at Call Number P481.7/Z48

Subject guides

Australian history
Medieval & early modern Europe

Web sites and Internet resources

History - Australian

Archives of Australia Information on the Australian archives and links to other archive sites
Australian History Resources This portal site contains links to original documents, electronic texts, databases, associations, and historical societies. Hailed by the University of Sydney Library History Guide as "the premier site for Australian history"
Australian War Memorial A guide to the collections, publications, and services
From Terra Australis to Australia The State Library of NSW's digitised collection of original journals, logbooks, paintings (and more) from the First Fleet, Mutiny on the Bounty, Matthew Flinders and other events up to the mid 1800s.
Heritage Office Information about the Heritage Office and access to the Office's database of heritage sites; also links to other useful sites
RAHS (Royal Australian Historical Society) useful history links
SETIS Oztexts The University of Sydney's Australian Electronic Text Collection, including Australian literary and historical texts, the Australian Federation Database, Australian legal texts, and more
Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia The Australian Bureau of Statistics has digitised this series that will eventually include eleven volumes of statistical information from 1890

History

American and British History Resources Links to scholarly resources including documents, electronic journals, archives and other web gateways
American Memory Created by the Library of Congress, this ongoing project currently offers more than seven million digital primary source items relating to American history and culture
ARCHON This database is the principal information gateway for UK archivists and users of manuscript sources for British history. Hosted and maintained by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, it is invaluable for locating specific manuscripts. Please note that this is a bibliographic and locational database only — texts are not available online
Canadian Journal of History Articles available online from 1996-1998 from this prestigious journal
Chronicon An e-journal with full text articles devoted to Irish history
Great Britain Historical Database Online A large database of nineteenth and twentieth century British statistics. Please note that registration is required to access this database: read all conditions of use carefully
Eurodocs — Primary Documents Online This site gives e-texts and facsimiles of European documents ranging from the eighth to the twentieth century
IHR The website of the Institute of Historical Research, part of the University of London's School of Advanced Study, offers the History Online database, journal articles online, and a listing of history theses completed in the UK
Historical Text Archive Offers primary source documents and photographs on a range of topics in modern history, as well as articles, suggested readings, and links
Journal of Military History Abstracts are available online from 1996 to current, while Dixson Library holds issues of the journal from 1994. A useful timesaver.
Journal of Modern History An American publication, this e-journal offers PDF formatted articles from 1997 to current
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre has free online New Zealand and Pacific Island historical books, journals and manuscripts
Search Machine Searches tables of contents of thousands of journals in history (mainly English and German)
Smithsonian National Museum of American History offers online virtual exhibition tours, collection information, and links to conference papers
US National Archives for Federal Government documents
WWW Virtual Library — History

History - Greek and Roman

See the Websites & Internet Resources on the Classics Research Guide

History - Medieval

Exemplaria A journal of theory in medieval and renaissance studies, with selected articles available fulltext online.
The Labyrinth Sponsored by Georgetown University, this large portal site can be search by category, sub category, and material designation, or by a simple keyword search. Contains everything on medieval studies from discussion lists to online videos.
The Medieval Review Formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, this e-journal offers reviews of current scholarly work published on medieval history. Offers a search facility.
Monastic Matrix a study of women's religious communities 400-1600 AD
NetSERF 'The internet connection for medieval resources' includes an online glossary, thousands of links, a search engine, and medieval news.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library contains e-texts of documents of the classical and medieval world, translated into English.
ORB The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
WWW Virtual Library Medieval Europe A large portal site devoted to the study of medieval Europe.