History-Based Databases

This is a sampling of the databases available that index primary source materials. The links will take you directly to the database, but you can also find these all in the UW Madison Libraries' E-Resource Gateway. Additional sources can be found in the UW Madison Libraries guide to Pre-1970 Databases.

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Details	P or S[?]	Database [?]	Full-text [?]	Years Included[?]
+	S	America : History and Life	Some	1964+
SUBJECTS: US and Canadian-History all subjects
+	S	America's Historical Newspapers	Yes	1758-1922
SUBJECTS: U.S. & Canada Newspapers
+	P	American Periodical Series Online	Yes	1741-1900
SUBJECTS: magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines
+	P & S	Business Full Text	Some	1982-Present
SUBJECTS: business side of health care
+	P & S	CINAHL Plus	Some	1931+
SUBJECTS: nursing & allied health literature
+	P	Defining Gender	Yes	1450-1910
SUBJECTS: advice literature
+	P & S	Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management	Some	1981-Present
SUBJECTS: air, land, water, and noise pollution
+	P	Ethnic News Watch	Yes	1959+
SUBJECTS: newspaper & magazines on diversity, race, and culture
+	S	Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (c. 400-1500)	Some	1994
SUBJECTS: women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages COMMENTS: links to journal articles available through JSTOR and Project Muse
+	P & S	The Gerritsen Collection, Women's History Online	Yes	1543-1945
SUBJECTS: condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights international scope
+	S	Google Scholar	Some	Varies
SUBJECTS: interdisciplinary COMMENTS: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research: links to UW Find It
+	P	HarpWeek-the Civil War Era	Yes	1857-1865
SUBJECTS: Harper's Weekly
+	S	Historical Abstracts	Some	1450-Present
SUBJECTS: world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada
+	S	History Cooperative	Some	Varies
SUBJECTS: several nationally known journals with a focus on American history.
	S	History of Science, Technology and Medicine	Some	1975-Present

+	S	Humanities International Index	Some	1975-Present
SUBJECTS: collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada.
+	P & S	IndexCat	No	1840s-1950
COMMENTS: citations only
+	P & S	International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBPFT)	Some	1900-Present
SUBJECTS: cultural and artistic, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of importance to the Black Studies discipline COMMENTS: scholarly and popular
+	P	Internet Library of Early Journals	Some	1700s-1800s, varies
SUBJECTS: 20 year runs of six important British journals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
+	S	International Medieval Bibliography	No	1967-Present
SUBJECTS: medieval studies (c.400-1500)
	P & S	JSTOR	Some	Varies

+	P & S	LEXIS/NEXIS	Some	1980s+
SUBJECTS: legal issues
+	S	Magazine Stacks	No	1827+, vary by title
SUBJECTS: table of contents of European (including British) historical journals COMMENTS: limited keyword searching
+	P	NewspaperARCHIVE.com (1759-2005)	Yes	1700s+
COMMENTS: many small towns
+	P & S	19th Century Master File (1800s-1920)	No	1700s-1800s, varies
SUBJECTS: interdisciplinary COMMENTS: British and US periodicals
	P & S	Old Medline; See PubMed	No	1950-1965

+	P	Palmer's Full Text Online	1800-1870	1790-1905
SUBJECTS: The London Times
	S	Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1806-1920); See 19th Century Masterfile

+	S	Project Muse	Yes	1990-Present
SUBJECTS: interdisciplinary
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World	1931-2003	1931-2003
SUBJECTS: Atlanta Daily World
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender	1910-1975	1910-1975
SUBJECTS: Chicago Defender
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune	1849-1985	1849-1985
SUBJECTS: Chicago Tribune
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel	1934-2005	1934-2005
SUBJECTS: LA Sentinel
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times	1881-1985	1881-1985
SUBJECTS: LA Times
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News	1922-1993	1922-1993
SUBJECTS: New York Amsterdam News
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times	1851-2006	1851-2006
SUBJECTS: New York Times
+	P	ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier	1911-2002	1911-2002
SUBJECTS: Pittsburgh Courier
+	P & S	ProQuest Research Library	Some	1989
SUBJECTS: interdisciplinary
+	P & S	PsycINFO	Some	1972-Present
SUBJECTS: psychology and related subjects international scope
+		Pubmed	Some	1950-Present
SUBJECTS: medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences COMMENTS: includes Old Medline (1950-1965)
+	P & S	Readers' Guide Retrospective	1994+ for some titles	1890-Present
SUBJECTS: interdisciplinary COMMENTS: US popular magazines
	S	Social Sciences Citation Index; See Web of Knowledge	Some	1981-1985

+	P	Times (London) Digital Archive, The	Yes	1785-1985
COMMENTS: Sunday's not included
+	S	Victorian Database Online	No	1945-Present
SUBJECTS: interdisciplinary regarding Victorian Age (1830-1914)
+	S	ViVa: Bibliography of Women's History in History and Women's Studies Journals		1995-Present
SUBJECTS: related topics such as prostitution, witchcraft, housework, sexuality, birth control, infanticide, gynecology, and masculinity COMMENTS: ViVa is a bibliography of citations to scholarly articles
+	P & S	Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)	Some	1970-Present
SUBJECTS: arts & humanities, science, and social science COMMENTS: combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

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