History: Modern World: Find Articles, Databases, Historical Newspaper & Journal Archives
Major Databases for Modern World History
- Academic Search Complete (ASC)
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database indexing journals, including thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Abstracts and indexes are also included for monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.
- Historical Abstracts with Full TextComprehensive full text database of the literature covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, covered in America: History & Life with Full Text) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. HA provides selective indexing of historical articles and access to the full text of modern journals and books.
Other Subject Specific Databases for Modern World History
- Alternative Press Index & Alternative Press Index ArchiveProvides access to bibliographic information about emerging theories of radical social change. Coverage is international, and focuses on socialism and revolution.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerialsCombines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with the full text of the ATLA's online collection of more than 100 major religion and theology journals. Includes ATLA Catholic Periodical Literature Index (CPLI) records.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies OnlineA record of research and scholarly literature on East, Southeast, and South Asia written in Western languages.
- ClasePeriodicaIndex of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Offers bibliographic citations from "documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues."
- Gale Academic OneFile Select (GAOFS)From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this full text database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
- Hapi Online: Hispanic American Periodicals IndexAn authoritative source for worldwide information about Latin American issues, including analyses of current political, economic, and social issues, as well as coverage of arts and letters. Includes some full text.
- Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and RenaissanceA collection of bibliographic databases, electronic journals and directories pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) created by Iter, University of Toronto Libraries and several partners including the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, and the Renaissance Society of America, as well as several society affiliates. Includes links to available full text.
- PAIS IndexAbstract and Index bibliographic database covering public affairs, public and social policies, international relations. It has an archive going back to 1915.
Formerly PAIS International & PAIS Archive. - Political Science Complete (PSC)Political Science Complete contains scholarly journals, full-text of reference books, monographs and conference papers covering political topics with a global focus. Subjects include: comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.
Historical Journal Archives
- Eighteenth Century Journals, sections I-V: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1835Digitized image collection of newspapers and periodicals, 1685-1815. Topics are wide-ranging and include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and coffee house gossip and discussion.
- JSTORFulltext archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, as well as 19th century British pamphlets. A unique e-journal database of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. Current issues of the e-journal may be available direct from the publisher or through another e-journal aggregator such as Project MUSE. JSTOR and Project MUSE have enabled reciprocal linking for titles held in common so that users may access both current and archive holdings.
- Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)An archive of over 750 historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering over 200 years of content. Each issue is digitized cover to cover, showing the content on each page.
- Royal Society Journals & Archive
Collection of all eight (8) Royal Society Publishing journals from volume 1, issue 1, covering the biological, mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences.
Historical Newspaper Archives
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection NewspapersA collection of newspapers and news pamphlets, collected by Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817). This is the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media, and includes over 700 bound volumes of content published mostly in London.
- Early English newspapers [microform]EEN combines content from the British Library’s Burney collection with that of John Nicholls, which was purchased in 1865 for the Bodleian Library.
- Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020The complete archive (1843-2020) of The Economist weekly newspaper, including fully searchable editorial, advertising, and tabular matter.
- Imperial Russian NewspapersThis collection "comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The collection's core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire."
- Independent and Revolutionary Mexican NewspapersNearly 1,000 titles are included in this collection from Mexico's pre-independence, independence, and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). These newspapers "provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. While holdings of many of the newspapers in this collection are available only in very short runs, the titles are often unique and, in many cases, represent the only existing record of a newspaper's short-lived publication."
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese NewspapersThis collection includes newspapers in Chinese from more than twenty cities on the mainland with a focus on the first half of the twentieth century. It "provides researchers a richly comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People's Republic."
- Latin American Newspapers, Series 1Provides fully searchable newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.
- Latin American Newspapers, Series 2This online series includes newspapers published in English, Spanish and Portuguese from 20 countries.
- Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers"Includes publications from across this dynamic region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present." Much of the content has never been digitized and is predominantly in Arabic but also includes some key titles in English and French."
- Russian Central Newspapers: Universal Database of Russian Central NewspapersA collection of 65 Russian central newspapers, including official resources, independent media and partisan publications. Also includes several English language newspapers, including The Moscow Times. This collection is also known as the Universal Database of Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM).
- Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2006The Sunday Times offers a weekly analysis and commentary on news, theatre, sport and politics in an abundance of detail. Access to all issues from first publication in 1822 - 2006 is included.
- Times Digital Archive: 1785-2019The complete digital edition of The Times (London), from 1785 to 2019, can be searched using advanced search techniques, or browsed by date. Search results include "full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching."
- Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. Series 2A directory of 50,000 English language newspapers and periodical publications published in England between 1800-1900. Subjects covered include: Art & Architecture, Children, Feminism, Music, Theatre, Wit & Humour, and Women.
- Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900. Series 3A directory that includes many nineteenth century periodicals as well as newspapers. "A subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 73,000 publications, 68,000 personal names, 6,300 issuing bodies, 2,400 publishing towns, 23,000 title pages, 2,000 subjects." Editor John S. North.