Research Guides: Modern European History: Find Articles

Best Bets for Journal Articles in European History

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes journals in the social and humanities sciences, covering 1953-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is the premier scholarly journal archive. Offers full-text access to more than 60 core history journals dating back in some cases to the early twentieth century.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse provides access to full-text journals, ebooks, and ebook chapters from university presses. Temple does not have access to all available ebooks.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Find articles on contemporary topics. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

More European History Databases

The following Temple databases index and in many cases provide full-text access to the peer-reviewed journal literature, i.e. secondary literature, related to the history of ancient, medieval, and modern Europe.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
Find bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications that cover North American scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former republics of the Soviet Union.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984 [via EbscoHost] This link opens in a new window
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984 [via EbscoHost] contains a range of journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1907 to 1984.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Includes nearly 2 million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. IBSS is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Citations to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, international agency publications, microfiche, and websites. No newspapers. Covers 1915 to date.

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
PAO "is a major online periodical archive that makes the [full-text] backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically." PAO currently offers access to 450 journals spanning some 300 years.
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Browse the 137 history titles by clicking on "Find Journals" from the homepage, then on "Find Journals by Subject"; a right-hand column will display a list of subjects, including "History (General) [94 journals]" and "History (The Americas) [37 journals]"
Project MUSE
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Project MUSE, a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins Press and Milton S. Eisenhower Library, provides full-text access to the Press's scholarly journals. Over 40 important history titles are included. Coverage begins in 1995. This database complements JSTOR in that it provides full-text access to the recent issues of many titles archived in JSTOR. Available titles include French Historical Studies (1999 to 2004), International Security (3/2001 to date), Journal of Military History (2003 to date), World Politics (10/1995 to date) and many others. Particularly useful is the ability to search for articles in Project MUSE by standard Library of Congress Subject Headings, a feature not available in JSTOR.
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Selective bibliography of articles relating to Jewish Studies and Eretz Israel. Covers thousands of periodicals and articles -- in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages -- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.