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HISTORY DATABASE INFORMATION

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About the History Databases
America: History and Life
Historical Abstracts
World History FullTEXT
Enhancements
FAQs
User Guides
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About the History Databases

Our bibliographic history databases, America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, are essential research tools for students and scholars of world history. First published in 1955, they contain almost 50 years of abstracts and remain vital resources for members of the broad historical community. World History FullTEXT combines the indexing and abstracts from America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts, with the full text of appropriate journals from EBSCO’s library.

America History and Life    more info

Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada from pre-history to the present. Each year editors review over 1,700 journals and add approximately 16,000 new entries to the database.

  • 75-120 word abstracts to journal articles
  • Citations to book/media reviews and dissertations
  • Over 450,000 entries currently available
  • Web version updated monthly

Historical Abstracts    more info

Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). Every year over 20,000 new entries are added from over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide.

  • 75-120 word abstracts to journal articles
  • Citations to books and dissertations
  • Over 600,000 entries currently available
  • Web version updated monthly

World History FullTEXT      more info

Focuses on historical writing from 1990 to the present with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.

  • Detailed abstracts and subject terms from America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
  • Coverage of 180 English-language journals from EBSCO’s library
  • Quarterly updates

Enhancements

These enhancements are available with Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life subscriptions now!

CLIO Links

Links to full-text articles from our publishing partners.

  • Full-text links to JSTOR's Arts and Sciences I and II collections, currently over 90,000 direct links to full-text journal articles in the JSTOR archives.
  • Full-text links to the journals of the History Cooperative, including The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, and William and Mary Quarterly.
  • Full-text links to over 60 journals from Project MUSE
  • More partnership agreements coming soon.

CLIO Notes

A research guide packed with pertinent information. Features include:

  • Concise overviews of historical periods designed to help students identify major issues and events
  • Detailed chronologies that give context to the events and issues of each period
  • Topic suggestions for papers and class discussions
  • Guided searching using selected index terms and search strategies to ensure optimal results

CLIO Alert

A monthly, automatic e-mail feature that helps users stay current in their field(s) of interest. Features include:

  • Monthly notification of newly added, specific abstracts from HA and AHL sent directly to the user’s email
  • Users easily set up and manage their own profiles (up to 10) directly on the HA and AHL Web sites

Simple Searching

An optional search screen to make searching easier. Features include:

  • A three field search-limited to the field that searchers use the most
  • Library administrators can choose the search screen they would like to use as a default

FAQs

FAQs for America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts

User Guides

Download and print a User Guide for the History Databases. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

America: History and Life User Guide

Historical Abstracts User Guide

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