LibGuides: History: Databases

Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,000 journals.

Use these databases to find secondary sources. For primary source databases, please visit the Primary Sources tab.

Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
This diverse, up to date and authoritative collection offers vastly improved accessibility to the print editions published since the 1960s. Features: personalisation including, saved & most recent searches, workspaces and bookmarks; citation export functionality; and, extensive bibliographic reference functionality.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a database of journals and primary sources that offers full-text to more than 2,300 journals.
Search and browse JSTOR citations from a mobile device.

To find out more about mobile apps, visit our Mobile Resources page.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Web of Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Web of Knowledge Covers over 22,000 journals, 23 million patents, 12,000 conference proceedings, 5,000 books, and now scholarly Web content via the Web Citation Index. The searchable databases include: Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and Medline.
World History in Context This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers.
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
The Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. City College's collection of Oxford Handbooks focus on History.
U.S. History This link opens in a new window
GALE OneFile: U.S. History offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.

OneSearch Tutorial Video

OneSearch is a federated search engine that locates articles as well as books in a great number - but not all - of our catalogs and databases.

Legal Databases

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
This 'Core Subscription Package' includes the Law Journal Library, Federal Register/CFR, U.S. Code, U.S. Supreme Court Library , Legal Classics, U.S. Presidential Library, Treaties & Agreements, English Reports, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, European Center for Minority Issues, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Trends in Law Library Management and Technology, and American Association of Law libraries.