Research Guides: Historiography: Scholarly Articles & Journals

Top History Databases

Databases are used to link you to the more than 100,000 journals that are available through UNM Libraries. Sometimes you will need to search the same interface several times (for example, EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale) as each subject database has unique content.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
World history including military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Indexing of scholarly journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Coverage: 1450-present.
America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
U.S. and Canadian history and culture which includes scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, reference sources, and other documents and multimedia. Coverage: prehistoric times to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive archive of multidisciplinary scholarly journals and books. Coverage: 1800s to 3-5 years ago; Includes ARTstor - images across the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. Coverage: ancient times to today.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Citations to publications in all aspects of the humanities. Extensive full-text collection, much of which is not found in other databases
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles are available from many university press journals including: Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. Offered through the Johns Hopkins University Press.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A resource of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations with main topics including literature, linguistics, language studies, rhetoric, composition, drama, theory, criticism, teaching, and publishing. Coverage: 1920s-present.
International Medieval Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and collections of essays about the European Middle Ages (c. 400-1500). Publications are classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records.

Other useful History databases

UNM Databases for History
See all the databases that are useful for History

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
An index of scholarly articles and books. Look for the Find@UNM link to access the full-text articles in University Libraries subscription databases. For books check the library catalog.
Google Scholar will link to some--not all--of the online resources to which the University Libraries subscribes. Use the "Check full text @ UNM" link to see if the resource is available through a UNM subscription. It may also be helpful to look up the journal or citation through UNM eJournals tool.