History: databases
Most of the resources listed below will give you references to journal articles (and some cover other publications). A few contain the full-text articles. These databases will give you good quality articles you can rely on. Others give you images or full-text primary source material.
Key databases for history
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- ACLS Humanities E-book [full-text]
- Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
- JSTOR [full-text]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [full-text]
- Project MUSE Humanities Collection [full-text]
Other useful sources
- ArticleFirst
- ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
- IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
- IMB (International Medieval Bibliography)
- Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
- MLA (Modern Language Association International Bibliography)
- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) [full-text]
- Who's Who & Who Was Who
- WorldCat
- Zetoc
Online primary source material
Medieval
Early modern
- British Newspapers 1600-1900 (cross-search the Burney Collection and 19th Century British Library Newspapers)
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
- ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
Modern
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers
- 19th Century British Pamphlets collection available on JSTOR
- 19th Century UK Periodicals
- BFI InView - video recordings from 1920 to 2005
- British Library Archival Sound Recordings
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974-1996
- Gale NewsVault
- John Johnson Collection: an archive of printed ephemera
- London Broadcasting Company/Independant Radio audio archive
- MediaHub
- Newsfilm Online
- The Times Digital Archive