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Historical Abstracts
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America: History & Life
Historical Abstracts
• An exceptional resource that covers the history of the world
(excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present
• Includes world history, military history, women’s history,
history of education, and more
• Provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals
in over 40 languages back to 1964
• Includes relevant dissertations from Dissertations & Theses (formerly DAI)
• No other history research tool matches its scholarly standards or
comprehensive coverage
America: History & Life
• An exceptional resource that covers the United States and Canada.
• Includes world history, military history, women’s history,
history of education, and more.
• Provides indexing of more than 2,000 academic historical journals
in over 40 languages back to 1955.
• Citations to book reviews from c 140 major journals of American history.
• No other history research tool matches its scholarly standards or
comprehensive coverage.
• Cross-searchable with HA.
Historical Abstracts: A Selection of Titles
European History
Eastern European History
• French Historical Studies
• Academia Republicii Socialiste Romania.
Studii: Revista de Istorie
• Geschichte In Wissenschaft Und
Unterricht
• Hispania: Revista Espanola de Historia
• History of European Ideas
• Journal of British Studies
• Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of
Russian, Eurasian, & East European Studies
• Istoricheski Pregled
• Zgodovinski Casopis
• Studi Storici
Russian History
World History
• Morskoi Sbornik
• Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales
• Otechestvennaia Istoriia
• English Historical Review
• Sovetskie Arkhivy
• Journal of Economic History
America: History & Life: A Selection of Titles
America History
• American Historical Review
• Arkansas Historical Quarterly
• Journal of American History
• Ohio History
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Historical Abstracts: More Limiters & Index Browse Fields
EBSCO has added the ability to search and limit by:
• Historical Period
• Year Published
• Publication (text box)
• Publication Type - new
• Peer Reviewed - new
• Abstract Available - new
• Document Type
• Language
Historical Abstracts: Historical Period indexing
All records are indexed with an Historical Period limiter for easier information
retrieval.
Searches on EBSCOhost are by the exact historical timeframe displayed in the full
record. (previously the search was by decade.)
Historical Abstracts: More Limiters & Index Browse Fields
EBSCOhost provides these Indexes for browsing and searching:
• Document Type – new
• ISSN - new
• Year of Publication - new
• Author/Editor/Reviewer
• Journal Name
• Language
• Subject Terms
Historical Abstracts: More Limiters & Index Browse Fields
EBSCO has added Source Type Searching
This enables filtering of retrieved results by publication source
Timeline
• September 2007 – Historical Abstracts available via EBSCOhost
• November 2007 – Searchable references available.
• June 2008 – Libraries may continue to access Historical Abstracts and
America: History & Life via the ABC-CLIO platform through June 2008
• July 2008 – Ehost 2.0 release will enable multiple Index searches for
searching many databases at once.
• 2009
– EBSCO plans to release Historical Abstracts with Full-Text,
including hundreds of unique journals not found in other databases.
– Publication Index
• Enable journal alerts.
• Browse issues more readily.
Summary
Historical Abstracts – America: History & Life
– Created for the scholarly & intensive research community
– Superior abstracting & indexing by ABC Clio.
– Historical Abstracts primarily covers Renaissance period to present.
– EBSCO offers more limiters and index browse fields.
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Links to full text. Where possible, links to commercial full text providers
(e.g. JSTOR, EJS, Swets, etc) are handled by EBSCOadmin/CustomLinks.
Those links determined to be freely available (open access) have been
retained in the full record.
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