E-Resources for History

Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present, including topics in the social sciences and humanities. Materials indexed include journals articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations.

This database indexes western-language articles and book chapters on East, Southeast, and South Asia. All subjects are covered with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.

Covers Native North American history, life, and culture from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). Materials indexed include the cumulative eight volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America, books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, dissertations and U.S. government documents. This database was formerly known as Bibliography of Native North Americans.

Covers biographical material on over 6 million individuals from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of activity. BGMI indexes material from current and major retrospective publications and includes over 20 million entries covering more than 2,000 year of human history.

Provides online access to over 300 volumes of the Cambridge Histories Online series published by the Cambridge University Press since 1960. Covers multiple academic subjects across the humanities and social sciences with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts. Full text is available for various volumes from 1968-2020.

Provides access to documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and technology. Materials indexed include essays, book reviews, books, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes from nearly 2,600 scholarly journals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

Indexes U.S. doctoral dissertations completed at accredited institutions since 1861 (abstracts since 1980) and dissertations and theses, most with abstracts, from the U.K. and Ireland since 1716. This database includes some dissertations from Canada and Europe, as well as some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Find most OU dissertations full text through summer 2013; after that date, find OU dissertations in SHAREOK. Most dissertations from other institutions, 1997 to present, are full text. To obtain pre-1997 dissertations, use the interlibrary loan request form.

Provides complete bibliographic citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Includes topics on current political, economic, and social issues. Some full text is available.

Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Materials indexed include abstracts to books, journals, and dissertations.

Covers the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture. Materials indexed include journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations. Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (technology and culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

This database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world, including the main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, as well as Muslim minorities elsewhere. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works, and book reviews.

The IMB allows researchers to identify current scholarship in medieval studies published throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region. This resource contains citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogues. Indexing is included for publications from 1967 to present covering medieval history from 400-1500.

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An Open URL- and Zotero-enabled bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogues).

This database is a digitized archive of the backfiles of selected scholarly journals. Provides access to materials in African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. Full text is available.

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. 

NOTE: Kanopy video access is mediated. This means that any video not currently licensed for use will require the user to request access. Access is being enabled for class use with instructor approval.

Koseisha zasshi kijisakuin shusei contains journal citation indices for Japanese journals from the Meiji period to the present.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is designed to help researchers efficiently locate reliable sources of information. Each subject module contains a literary research guide to the most significant sources in that area of study with citations that link to those sources. University Libraries provides access to the following subjects: Atlantic History, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Classical Studies, Hinduism, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Renaissance, and Victorian Literature.

Selective bibliography of academic articles and books covering all fields of Jewish studies.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research provides public opinion data from polls conducted by major U.S. and international polling organizations. Roper iPoll includes broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and more. Questions, charts, demographic crosstabs, and datasets are all available. 

An international, multi-disciplinary catalog of books, internet resources, audio visual materials, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings and other materials held by over 20,000 libraries. Contains materials representing 400 languages.