Research Guides: HIST 066: Disease, Culture, and Society in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (SC): Scholarly Articles

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America: History and Life
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US and Canadian topics - This database provides abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on US and Canadian history topics from prehistory to the present. America, History & Life includes articles, book reviews, and dissertations published from 1954 - present.
Historical Abstracts
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Non-US topics - This database provides abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present.

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HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
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This database contains scholarly articles that may be useful for students with an interest in Latin America, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, or US Hispianic topics
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
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Provides a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly books, journal articles, and other resources dealing with Latin America. Curated by the Library of Congress’ Hispanic Division.
Eight Centuries
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Includes over seventy seminal as well as lesser known contemporary indexes to English-language publishing prior to 1930. Access is by genre: 1. Multi-title Periodical Indexes (e.g., Poole's, Legal, Religion, Scientific Papers, etc.); 2. Book Indexes; 3. Newspaper Indexes; 4. Complete Individual Periodical Indexes (e.g., Harper's, Atlantic Monthly,etc.); 5. US Patents; Hansard's; US and UK Historical Government Documents
PsycINFO
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Provides abstracts of journals, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations. Areas covered include psychology and related disciplines, sociology, linguistics, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Covers 1887-present.

Try searching PsychInfo if you're interested in the history of mental illness, health, and psychology.
Includes PsycARTICLES journals.
PubMed
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Pubmed includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's, including articles from many medical history journals.
Clase & Periodica
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Provides citations to Latin American and Caribbean journal articles, books, essays, book reviews, conference proceedings, technical reports, and interviews in the social sciences, humanities, science and technology fields. Covers 1975-present.
ACLS Humanities eBook
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Offers a collection of major scholarly works from all areas of history, including American, world and the history of science and technology. Also offers online versions of printed works and original electronic publications. Covers prehistory-present.
Periodicals Index Online
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Index (and some full text) to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, from the 17th century to 1990s. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Covers 1980-present.