Periodical Indexes

Historical Abstracts
Indexes articles, book reviews, and some dissertations published from 1955 to date.
** This is THE major index for scholarly journal literature pertaining to world history      (excluding the U.S. and Canada).

Royal Historical Society bibliography of British and Irish history.   
Imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002-

This database is an index of British history from the year 900 AD to the present. It collects the publications indexed in serial publications such as the "Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History" and "Writings on British History," below, as well as book length bibliographies such as the highly regarded Oxford bibliographies of British History published from the late 1950's through the 1970's.
The search interface isn't ideal but this is now the premier database for locating material about British history.

Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Writings on British history.
London J.cape.
Later Title: Writings on British History 1946/48-
Baker/Berry Reference Z/2016/R88
Library has 1901-1945

Writings on British history.
London, University of London, Institute for Historical Research [etc.]
Later Title: Annual bibliography of British and Irish history. Publications of ...
Baker/Berry Reference Z/2016/R88
Library has 1946/48-1973/74

Annual bibliography of British and Irish history.
Publications of ... / Royal Historical Society.
Brighton, Sussex : Harvester Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press for the Royal Historical Society,
Earlier Title: Writings on British history.
Baker/Berry Reference Z/2001/A61
Latest issue received: 1999
Library has 1975- to date

America: History and Life. [Santa Barbara, Calif., Clio Press.
Indexes articles, book reviews, and some dissertations published from 1964 to date.
** This is THE major index for scholarly journal literature pertaining to U.S. and Canadian       history.

British humanities index.
Indexes articles in scholarly and popular journals from 1962 to date.

Academic Search Premier.

Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection.

JSTOR

A fully-searchable database containing the full-text of scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields. Coverage is generally from the beginning of publication to within 3-5 years of the current issues.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE offers nearly 200 full-text journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic periodicals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

The subject index to periodicals.
London, Library Association.
Earlier Titles: Subject index to periodicals, 1952-1961, Athenaeum subject index to periodicals, 1915-1951.
Later Title: British humanities index.
Library has 1915/16-1950/51
Baker/Berry Reference AI/3/A72
Library has 1952-61

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts covers political science articles published since 1975. The database contains abstracts of materials from professional journals, major news magazines and books devoted to the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, public law, public administration and public policy.

PAIS International
Online edition 1972 to date.
Print edition 1st-73rd (1915-1984)
Baker/Berry Stacks Z/7163/P9

PAIS International is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade, international relations, public administration, government and political science. The database covers selected journal articles, books, chapters in books, statistical sources, and government documents

International Political Science Abstracts
[Paris]
Online edition 1989 to date.
Print edition v.1-38 (1951-1988)
Baker/Berry Reference JA/36/I5

International Political Science Abstracts is published by the International Political Science Association. It provides abstracts of political science articles published in scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide. Topics include method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; political and administrative institutions; political process (public opinion, attitudes, parties, forces, groups, elections); international relations; and national and area studies. Approximately 95% of the records include abstracts, with most written in English and the remainder in French (for articles in languages other than English). Titles in other languages are always translated into English. IPSA makes a special effort to include articles about the countries for which information is scarce.

Humanities Abstracts.
Online edition 1983 to date
Earlier Title: Social sciences and humanities index.
Print edition v.1-10, 1974-1984
Baker/Berry Reference AI/3/S611

Social Sciences Abstracts .
Online edition 1983 to date
Earlier Title: Social sciences and humanities index.
Print edition v.1-9, 1974-1983
Baker/Berry Reference AI/3/S61

Social sciences and humanities index.
Imprint: New York [etc.] H. W. Wilson Co.
Notes: An author and subject index to publications in fields of anthropology, archeology and classical studies, economics, folklore, geography, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion and theology, sociology and theatre arts.
Other Titles: Readers' guide to periodical literature supplement 1907/15-1916-/19. International index to periodicals 1920/23-1952/55.
International index; A guide to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities 1955/58-Mar. 1964.
Later Titles: Humanities index. Social sciences index.
Baker/Berry Reference AI/3/S6
Library has v.1-27 (1907-1974)

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Index   
1907-1982.
The online version of the Humanities and Social Sciences indexes noted above.
An important source for academic journal articles in History published prior to 1955 (when "Historical Abstracts" appeared).

Readers' Guide Abstracts.
Online edition 1983 to date.
Earlier title: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Readers' Guide Retrospective.
Online edition 1890-1982
Earlier title: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

19th Century Masterfile
An accumulation of various indexes to printed materials from the nineteenth century. Coverage actually ranges from about 1774 to 1920, depending on the index selected.
Dartmouth subscribes to Series I and Series V of the product.
Relevant titles for British history include:
* Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1907
* Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922 (ed. Jones and Chipman)
* An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-    1899 (ed. Ernest Cushing Richardson)
* Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902 (ed. W. T. Snead)
* Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England, 1066-1803
* Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons, 1803-1830 
* Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords, 1803-1830 

Poole's index to periodical literature.
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin.
Baker/Berry Reference AI/3/P7
Library has v.1-2 (1802-1907)
The print version of Poole's contained above in 19th Century Masterfile.

The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900. (CD-ROM and Print ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Routledge & K. Paul, [1966-1989]
Baker/Berry Reference AI/3/W45
Computer File: CD-ROM in Baker Reference

The Times, London.
The index to the Times.
Later Title: Times index.
Jones Media Center AI/21/T46
Library has 1785-1789, Print edition Jones Media Center, Microfilm 302R
Library has O.1790-D.1869
Jones Media Center AI/21/T46
Library has 1869-1973, Print edition