History Research Guide

Login Instructions

To Search the resources and databases linked on this guide, you'll need to enter your CRUZ ID and Gold Password when prompted.

Go to Nomad and install the browser extension. This extension will make getting access to articles seamless.

For more help, visit the Online Access Guide.

Find Articles & Books in History Databases

America History and Life This link opens in a new window
This database provides citation and abstracts of journal articles and book reviews in History, covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. For all other geographic areas, see Historical Abstracts database.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides citation and abstracts of journal articles and book reviews in World History, covers the period from 1450 to the present.
Index Islamicus This link opens in a new window
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes journals articles, proceedings, monographs, book chapters, and book reviews, 1906 to present.
History of Science, Technology, & Medicine This link opens in a new window
This databases integrates four bibliographies (Click move for details). Topics covered: the role of scientific discovery in society and culture, as well as the historiography of scientific disciplines from prehistory to the present. It includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials.
Bibliographies include: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975-current) This link opens in a new window
The database provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

Find Articles & Books in Academic Databases & Catalogs

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
This searches across all 10 UC Library collections and beyond. Sign in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Sign into your library account to see items to which we subscribe.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database includes the full text of journals starting with their very first issue and eBooks and eChapters. Note, current issues are not available in JSTOR. Consult the journals list for information on years of coverage. For wider coverage of a topic, consult the database best suited to your discipline.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full text articles of 400+ peer-reviewed journals from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Arts, humanities, and social sciences – full-text scholarly journal archives. The contents is indexed in Periodicals Index Online
WorldCat (FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
This is the FirstSearch version: A union catalog, it enables you to search the holdings of libraries across the country and internationally.
Catalogs generally contain: books, journal titles, sound recordings, movies, newspapers and so on.

Tools to locate PDFs or request them from our network of libraries

Get it UC shows up in databases that only describe the sources (these usually only include citations and abstracts). Use it to find PDF attachments of articles, links to ebooks, or information about print books on the shelf in a library. A Request link lets you request PDF attachments or print books from the shelves of other libraries.

1156 High Street spacer bullet

Santa Cruz, CA spacer bullet

95064

Feedback

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License except where otherwise noted.

Patrons with Disabilities
Privacy Policy

Staff Portal
LibApps Login
Incident Form (staff only)

Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.

University Library