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Periodicals Overview
Periodicals include popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. These may contain news, original research, opinion pieces, and other types of information. While many magazines and newspapers offer some articles for free online, academic articles are typically behind a paywall and can only be accessed through specialized tools like those provided below.
Primary Sources
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Hosted by the Library of Congress, offering selected digitized issues of historic U.S. newspapers published between 1777 and 1963. - Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers from 1969 to today. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers. - Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
Provides legal, news, and business information from 15,000 of the best business, news, and legal sources available.
- Times Digital Archive (London, England : 1785-) This link opens in a new window
The Times of London has covered all major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive, 1785–2013 makes 228 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history, literature, culture, business, art and architecture, and more. - U.S. Major Dailies (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Provides users with exclusive and preferred access to current content and significant archives dating back to 1980 from five of the nation’s most respected national and regional newspapers: The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, in full-text format.
Secondary Sources
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts the research literature from 2,100 journals for all aspects of United States and Canadian history.
- Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of more than 7000 online research journals covering many subject areas.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts the research literature of modern (1450d- ) world history (excluding the United States and Canada, see America: History and Life).
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the back issues of scholarly journals as well as ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, some of which date back to the 1800s. Supports such disciplines as biological sciences, business and economics, education, history, language and literature, mathematics and statistics, music, political sciences and sociology.
*Please note that issues from the last 3 to 5 years for the majority of JSTOR's journals are not available.
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