Research Guides: History: A Guide to Research

Citation Help
Get help using APA, MLA, IEEE, and Chicago styles, and citing data.
Magazines and Popular Journals
How to find current and historical magazine and journal articles.
Newspapers
Find current, historical, and SMU newspapers.
Primary Sources
Learn what primary sources are and how to find them.
Resources for Graduate Students in History
Learn which resources are best for dissertations, citation management, and information about archives.
Search Strategies
Learn the best ways to search for scholarly resources.

America: History & Life (EBSCO)
America: History & Life is the best database for getting journal articles on U.S. and Canadian history and culture.

Simultaneous users permitted: 6
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts is the first place to go for articles on the history of all areas of the world (except the U.S. and Canada.)
JSTOR
You will want to search JSTOR, as it provides access to many humanities journals. (All but the last five years are available for most titles.)
Project MUSE
Provides full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Academic Search Complete
A scholarly, multidisciplinary database that offers coverage of many areas of academic study

Contact:

rmirza@smu.edu
214-768-1838

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is an database of (online) encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Reference Universe
Search to find multiple (online and print) background and secondary resources
Oxford Bibliographies
Research guides are useful to give you an overview and starting point when looking at a topic you are not familiar with.