Before you search the databases, make sure that you've listed the key concepts and ideas in your research question. Create a list of any synonyms for those concepts: Are there other terms or names in common use? What about more specific phrases? Read each set of results carefully as a group of short documents. Look for new concepts, named persons, named events, organizations, etc. that could be used to adjust your search.
Indexes and abstracts over 11,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subject areas with over 7,000 in full text.
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.
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.
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 5 - 7 days; those outside RI will require longer.
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