Research Guides: HIS103H5: Revolutions in History: Find Journal Articles

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JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
☆ ABOUT RECENTLY PUBLISHED ISSUES OF JOURNALS (PAST 3-5 YEARS): In most cases, recently published issues of journals are not available through JSTOR. If you realize that access to particular articles via JSTOR is not available, use LibrarySearch to find them from a different platform.
Project MUSE
Project Muse provides full-text versions of scholarly journals from university presses and scholarly societies.
You have access to electronic journal articles, but not ebooks. If you need ebooks, check a specific title via LibrarySearch.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The major database for world history from 1450 to the present.
Historical Abstracts covers the world’s scholarly literature in History including articles from over 2,000 journals as well as citations to books, articles in books, and dissertations.
You may limit your searches to historical time periods

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Ulrichsweb.com
If you are not sure whether a journal is peer-reviewed or not, this database is very helpful.
Instead of using "peer reviewed," they use referred.
➤ ➤ Watch our video on "Peer Review Check with Ulrichsweb" if you would like to learn more about it.

0:00 – How to find Ulrichsweb, using LibrarySearch
0:51 -- Remember to type in the JOURNAL title, not the article title
1:58 -- Make sure your article is a research article, since peer reviewed journals have other content
3:21 -- You can access the journal through Ulrichsweb

The following video was created by Cambridge University Press. They show the importance of the peer-review process: