Indexes help find where information is located. Below you will find indexes to Scholarly Analysis and Magazine Articles.

• How and When to Look for Scholarly Analysis
• How and When to Look for Magazine Articles

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How and When to Look For Scholarly Analysis

Scholarly analysis can usually be found either as a monograph or an article. Below are important indexes for finding books and articles related to your topic.

Academic Search
Provides full text for over 1,530 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, and education.

America:  History and Life
America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with bibliographic entries, covering journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-) is an international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of journals, fully and selectively. Those selectively covered are titles in the sciences and social sciences indexed by Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, from which articles of possible interest in the arts and humanities are drawn. Published in three parts: Citation Index (through which you can find what later articles have cited earlier books or articles), Source Index (an author index), and Permuterm Subject Index (which offers keyword access to the titles of articles). Years of Coverage: 1975-present.

Digital Dissertations
Digital Dissertations contains more than 1.6 million entries with information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. It is the same database as Dissertation Abstracts, but with the significant advantage that titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Historical Abstracts
Contains annotated references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:  History and Life).

International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)
Indexes articles in 150 international scholarly and popular Black studies periodicals.

MLA Bibliography
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, excluding book reviews.

AHA Guide to Historical Literature Ed. Mary Beth Norton, Pamela Gerardi. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 2 v.
The product of over 400 historians. This edition of the Guide presents and integrated, selective listing of books and articles that most successfully introduce others to the study of key issues in history. Works have been chosen for inclusion on the basis of (1) their function as reliable syntheses or reference works that provide entry to a field; (2) works that set the standard of excellence in various fields of history; and (3) major alternative interpretations represented in current scholarly debase. Contains nearly 27,000 annotated citations arranged in 48 chapters. Each chapter includes a brief introductory essay summarizing the history and development of that area of historical inquiry. With author and subject indexes and a list of journals.
SML, Reference Z6201 A55 1995
Also at the SML Reference Desk as well as CCL, Reference

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How and When to Look For Magazine Articles

An index reveals the contents of periodicals (magazines, journals, and newspapers, etc.) Below are important indexes for finding articles related to your topic, organized by time period.

20th Century | 19th Century | 18th Century

20th Century

Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective together offer comprehensive indexing and abstracting of popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada since 1890, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals from 1994 - present. They cover news, current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science. Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting of more than 240 of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals. Print covers 1890-present.

Academic Search
Provides full text for journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, and education.

Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals.
SML, Reference, Index Case AI3 A23
Indexes magazines not presently indexed in Reader's Guide Abstracts, including city and regional magazines.

Africabib.org
Africabib is a combination of databases providing access to periodical and other material on Africa. The two major databases include Africana Periodical Literature, a bibliography of citations from periodicals covering the entire range of topics relating to Africa. The other large database is African Women's Database which, in addition to including citations pertaining to women in Africa, includes conference papers, as well as references to theses and dissertations. A large and detailed bibliography entitled Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa 1763-2001 can be found on Africabib.

African Studies
African Studies is a combination of databases providing access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. Included are the catalogs of the African Studies Center (Leiden), the Africa Institute (Pretoria), the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Africana Collection of the University of Natal, and the International Library of African Music at Rhodes University.

Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Archive (1969-1990)
The Alternative Press Index and its archive are a guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. 90% of the publications indexed in API are unique; you won't find them indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature or the Social Sciences Index. Approximately 17,000 new records (some with abstracts) are added each year. Major topics include: African-American Studies, ethnic & racial studies, feminism, gay/lesbian studies, community organizing, ecology, labor studies, social theory, socialism, alternative organizations, anarchism, prisons, indigenous people's rights, internationalism.

Black Index: Afro-Americana in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949. Richard Newman. New York: Garland, 1981.
SML, Reference Z1361 N39 N58 (LC)
Articles taken from journals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.

Black Studies Database
The electronic version of the celebrated Kaiser Index to Black Periodicals, includes citations drawn from journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the Black experience from 1948-1986. 

International Index to Black Periodicals
IBP indexes articles in international scholarly and popular Black studies periodicals. It covers humanities-related disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology. The full text of some recent articles are included. Covers 1910 to present (varies by periodical title).

A Guide to Negro Periodical Literature. Winston-Salem, NC, 1941-1946.
SML, Stacks, Yale Classification X413 +G92 Also in SML, Microform Film S1069
Published February 1941-September 1946. Publication suspended March 1943-February 1946. Continued by Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes.

Index to Black Periodicals. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984-.
SML, Reference, Index case AI3 I563
Included are indexes to African-American periodicals of general and scholarly interest. They include citations of journal articles, literary works, and book and live recorded performance reviews. Previous Titles: Index to Periodical Articles By and About Blacks (1973-1983) and Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (1960-1972).

Nation Digital Archive contains every issue of The Nation from July 1865 through 1999.

Periodicals Index Online
An index to the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.

19th Century

Harper's Magazine Online provides access to the full-text Harper's Magazine. When complete, it will cover 1850 to the present.

HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction is a searchable full-text database of all the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1877).

Niles Register is a cumulative index of the Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register from 1811-1849.
*Located in the SML, CD-ROM Reference Center

The Nineteenth Century Masterfile contains several electronic indexes to pre-1920 periodical literature, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906). *The print version of Poole's is located in SML, Reference, Index Case A13 P656 1963

Periodicals Index Online
An index to the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.

18th Century

American Periodical Series Index
This full-text-/full-image resource contains 1000 magazines published between 1741 and 1900. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal. The search interface allows you to search the complete text, including tables of contents, by Boolean and keyword operators. Articles are linked to the corresponding page images, downloadable in PDF format.

Periodicals Index Online
An index to the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.

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