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Does RIC own this journal?

To look for a specific periodical whose title you know (i.e. Journal of world history) , click on the JOURNALS By Title link on the Library home page. A search for the journal, Journal of World History, for example, indicates what years (issues) are owned by Adams Library and in what format: print or online or both.

Articles in Databases

Before you search the databases below, make sure that you've listed the key concepts and ideas in your research and that you create a list of any synonyms for those concepts to use as keywords in your search.

When you find a relevant citation, click on "Check the RIC library" to open another window which will indicate if the library has access to the journal and in what format (print or online or some of each for different spans of years). If the next display does not contain a link to the journal title or to Full Text, then use the "Request this item" link to request through InterLibrary Loan (ILL)". REMEMBER: requests for articles held in Rhode Island will require a MINIMUM of 7 - 10 days; those outside RI will require longer.

COVID update: walk-in access to many of these other libraries may still be unavailable. Please Request articles through ILL and indicate on your ILL form if there is an end date by which the article must be received. DO NOT say "ASAP" - the ILL folks ALWAYS do that. If you need the article immediately, consider doing a TITLE search for the JOURNAL (not the article) in the Library Catalog to see if the JOURNAL is held at another Rhode Island library where you can walk in and copy it.

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts 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. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. ACCESS LIMITED TO 6 SIMULTANEOUS USERS..
America: History and Life
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 490,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954, providing a research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
JSTOR
RIC currently participates in all 15 JSTOR Arts & Sciences archive collections and the Life Sciences archive collection. Journals in archive collections are always included from volume 1 number 1, and related prior titles, but stop short of current issues. RIC also subscribes to 34 current journals in JSTOR. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Academic Search Complete
Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text. Coverage dates vary.
Google Scholar
On-campus users at Rhode Island College see additional links in the right side column of Google Scholar search results which facilitate access to the library's full text articles. Off-campus, the same library links may be used by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner (next to "Sign In"). Select "Scholar Preferences" on the drop down menu, scroll down to "Library Links," then type in the box "Rhode Island College"

Citing Articles

Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). (2010). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. REF Z253 .U69 2010 is kept in the Library's reference collection for use in the Library, but does not circulate.

See the Online Writing Lab [OWL] at Purdue's guide to the Chicago Manual of Style and use the section on Periodicals for guidance on citing articles in your writing.

Reference and Research Support keeps a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) at the Reference Desk. If OWL does not have a clear answer for a specific type of source, please contact us. We're happy to check the full manual. A copy is also kept under REF Z253 .U69 in the Library's reference collection for use in the Library, but it does not circulate.