How To Locate Scholarly Analysis

Scholarly analysis can usually be found either as a monograph or an article. Here are the places to look along with the Yale catalogs:

America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, covering over 2,000 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. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals. All abstracts are written in English.

In addition to articles, each year America: History and Life includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields. The database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas.

Historical Abstracts contains annotated references to books, aricles, 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).

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975-) is an international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities, indexing the contents of about 6,100 journals, covering about 1,000 fully and about 5,100 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

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 rpresented in current scholarly debates. 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.
LOCATION: SML, Reference Z6201 A55 1995. Also at the SML Reference Desk and in CCL, Reference.

Dissertations and Theses - Full Text
ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses - Full Text contains more than 2 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.

BACK | PREVIOUS | NEXT