Finding Scholarly Articles
You can search within both of these databases simultaneously if you wish.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
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Definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more – essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1953, with some coverage for titles back to the early 20th century.
This collection of databases is but a small sample of what UD subscribes to. For a full list of what we have, go to our "Databases" page and search for "Arts & Humanities Databases" from the "Browse by Subject" list.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering all subject areas. - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of more than 2,000 journals and more than 25,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Included are peer-reviewed scholarly journals, literary journals, and academic monographs. JSTOR includes material in more than 75 disciplines including area studies, the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
- Ancestry Library Edition This link opens in a new windowAccess to a number of genealogical and historical resources, including images of the decennial U.S. census from 1790-1930.
- ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
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Includes some coverage of the history of business. - GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
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A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women’s and gender issues. - Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window
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An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, drawn from a variety of essential women’s studies databases. - ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new windowSearch for past dissertations and theses from UD and other institutions. Keep in mind, abstracts are only available for non-UD institutions. You can request a full dissertation through InterLibrary Loan.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
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An index to the world’s public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences. Includes public policy literature in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish—periodicals, books, and government documents.
Journals give you the ability to search for articles on a specific topic or event. It can be an easier way to find relevant information because you are usually not sifting through a large pool of results. If you visit the E-Journals page, you can bring up a list of all the journals with subject content in History & Archeology. You can also search for a specific journal title from the E-Journals page or in DELCAT.
Tips & Tricks for Searching for Articles
Finding articles within databases and journals is not the same process you would use to conduct a search in Google or an internet search engine. You cannot type in a question, but rather need to choose specific keywords and phrases to find results. These tips are similar to how you would search for material in DELCAT.
Helpful Ways to Search:
- Use quotations around a phrase to "tell" the database or journal that you want these words to remain together.
- Ex: "American exceptionalism"
- Think of synonyms to your keywords...Especially when conducting historical research, you may need to develop words and phrases that were used during that particular time period, rather than modern-day words.
- Ex: World War I; First World War; The Great War - All would give you different results!
- Use AND/OR to connect words, concepts, and phrases together to receive specified results.
- Ex: World War I AND United States
Use the Advanced Search option in databases and journals to narrow down by date, region, type of document, and more!