History Resources

General Research Indexes:

• Academic Search Complete
  Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study
• EJC - Electronic Journal Center
  Full text of 6000+ research journals
• Films on Demand
  Over 8200 full-length streaming video programs from academic and commercial publishers including PBS, BBC, CNBC, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Bill Moyers Journal, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• Image Quick View (searches Academic Search Complete) 
• ISI Web of Knowledge
  Portal to Web of Science, providing high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities
• JSTOR
  Full text scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Business, Language and Literature
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information
• OhioLINK Digital Videos
  Education and Instructional Videos
• Scopus
  With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers a to support research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, in the arts and humanities
• VAST: Academic Video Online
  A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video which will include access to 20,000 videos in 2013.

History Research Indexes:

• ACLS Humanities E-Book
  Full-text of over 1500 titles, click here for subject and title list
• African-American History Online 
• America: History and Life
  Bibliographic reference to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present; the index has been published since 1964
• American History in Video
• American History Online
• American Indian History Online
• American National Biography Online
• American Periodicals Series
  Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 historic American magazines, journals, and newspapers.
• American Women's History Online
• Ancient and Medieval History Online
• Bibliography of Native North Americans
• Country Watch
  Full text information on the people, history, economy, environment, of countries of the world; news articles, key data and complete country reviews available for downloading
• Dictionary of National Biography 
  Over 50,000 biographies of British of men and women from earliest times to the end of 2000
• DRC: Digital Resource Commons
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction I
  The full text and images of Harper's Weekly from 1857 through 1871
• Historical Abstracts
  The history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)
• Historical Statistics of the United States
• Humanities International Complete
  Provides bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada; this database covers over 1,700 journals and more than 1.5 million records
• In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and other Personal Accounts
• Modern World History Online
• Oxford African American Studies Center
• World History in Video

• SERIAL SET

  The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is your primary source for history and geneology questions as it includes every aspect of American history. Congressional reports, treaties and other federal publications are all included in the Serial Set. The American State Papers are also included in the Serial Set.

  Access to the Serial Set is made available through the State Library of Ohio. A library card, which is free, must first be acquired to access the Serial Set which is available as a subscription database from LexisNexis. When clicking on the link for the Serial Set, you will be prompted for your library card information, or you may apply for a library card if you do not already have one.

  U.S. Congressional Serial Set - after clicking on this link please scroll down to the page section "Sources for Government Documents" to locate the link for the Serial Set.