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History: Journals

Library subject guide for History

Why Use Journals

Shows a pile of journals

Journals are generally more current than books and more specific in their focus. Many academic journals are peer-reviewed, meaning they are evaluated by other experts in the same field before publication. This makes them a good quality source of academic information.

You can access thousands of journals through the Library, most of these online: we subscribe to over 67,000 journals electronically. 

Finding online articles

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Request articles, books and chapters for your research.

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Library Search

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Featured Journals

LibKey

LibKey

LibKey is a suite of tools that aim to provide easy and efficient full-text access to articles.

Working in the background while you search, LibKey Discovery and LibKey Link help select the best full-text article option - including Open Access materials and Library subscribed content.

LibKey Nomad

LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides seamless access to full-text articles while researching on the web. It works with publisher, academic and general websites (including Google Scholar, PubMed and Wikipedia). Once installed - similar to LibKey Discovery and LibKey Link - LibKey Nomad works in the background to instantly find users the best option for accessing articles and offers access to the full text.

To install LibKey Nomad on personal devices, follow the instructions here: https://thirdiron.com/downloadnomad/ 

LibKey Discovery

Alongside LibKey Discovery, LibKey Link, and LibKey Nomad, another service of LibKey is LibKey.io. LibKey.io allows researchers to seamlessly connect to library resources. LibKey.io is a dedicated webpage that allows users to search for materials by their DOI or PubMed ID. Searching for material on LibKey.io will bring up direct links to the best full-text option of the material.

The University's LibkKey.io page can be accessed through the following link: https://libkey.io/libraries/3907

Journal databases

JSTOR logoJSTOR

A humanities and social science journal archive that has strong covereage of history by place, period and theme.

Project Muse LogoProject Muse

Journals database of scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences, covering history, culture and society.

Web of Science

Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities across 28 arts & humanities disciplines. Find out more.

Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar 
broadly searches the web for scholarly literature across disciplines and source types: journal articles, theses etc. from publisher websites and institutional repositories.

Find out more on the Library website here.