Core Articles Options for History
Start with these resources for focused research in history.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowArticle citations and abstracts from 1,700 journals on United States and Canadian history and culture, plus citations to books, chapters, book reviews and dissertations.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowArticle citations and abstracts from journals covering world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada), as well as citations to book reviews and dissertations.
Research Collections
These topical collections include a mix of articles, overviews, primary sources, and other resources to aid your research.
- Issues and Controversies in History This link opens in a new windowThis source reports on pivotal events in American and world history. It has background articles, biographies, images, timelines, charts, and primary source documents.
- Historical Statistics of the U.S. This link opens in a new windowA source for the statistics of American history, Historical Stats arranges the data by population; work and welfare; economic structure and performance; economic sectors; and government and international relations.
More Article Options for History
These general interest article resources, along with options from related fields, provide additional choices for article searching.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA favorite for the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, medicine, and education, ASP indexes 8,200 periodicals. Full-text articles from 3,750 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are found here, plus a number of popular sources.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis indexes 12,500 periodicals in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Physical Sciences, Medicine and Education, with 5,400 titles in full-text. The sources are a mix of academic, professional, and popular periodicals and newspapers.
- Gale Power Search This link opens in a new windowCross-search content from select Gale products, including the Regis Library's subscription access to Gale's OneFile periodicals databases covering multiple subject areas, In-Context article databases, and eBooks hosted on the Gale platform.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowArticle citations and detailed abstracts of articles from over 2,000 journals published internationally in all areas of psychology from 1872 to the present. Links to full-text articles from PsycARTICLES and Academic Search Premier.
- MEDLINE This link opens in a new windowThe largest index of medical literature, MEDLINE has citations and abstracts from more than 5,400 journals worldwide. The citations link to full-text in our other databases, where available. The MeSH subject headings help in selecting the best search terms.
- ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new windowATLA indexes religious and theological literature from over 1,600 journals plus books and edited works. It includes full-text articles from about 100 core journals. A special feature is the ability to search by scriptural citation.
- Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields from 1940 to the present day. The Philosopher''s Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThis is an archived collection of 150 e-journals in language & literature, music, art & art history, religion, history, and Asian, Jewish, and African-American studies. The journals are a nearly complete run from vol. 1 up to 4 years prior to the current issue. The individual journals can also be located through Lumen.
Print Indexes
Depending on your topic, you may need to use some of the print resources in the library's reference collection for identifying articles:
Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (Reference AI 3 .R48)
- useful in identifying older news and popular press articles
- covers 1890-present
Google Scholar
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- Click on Settings.
- Type "Regis University" in the 'Library Links' section and select "Regis University - Full Text @ My Library."
- Click Save.
Full Text Finder
If the full text of an article isn't available from the database you're searching, click on the Full Text Finder link that appears below the citation or abstract to see if it is available elsewhere. A new tab or window will open when you click the Full Text Finder link, and all linked options for accessing the full-text document will be listed. Links on this page are formatted to prompt the Regis login for subscription access. Options may include:
Check for full text at the publisher's site: this link will direct the user to the publisher's Web site while passing through our institutional subscription.- Find this article in full text from EBSCOhost SmartLinks+: this link will connect the user to the resource in our library system that provides full-text.
- Find this article in full text from [database name]: this link will connect the user to a specific database in our system that provides access to the full-text document.
- Request this item through interlibrary loan: if no other options are presented, the user can request a digital copy of the article using the interlibrary loan system.