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Essential World History Sources

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
World history coverage (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
JSTOR
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.
Project MUSE
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

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Ebook Central (Proquest)
More than 1,800,000 ebook titles that can be either read online using a web browser or downloaded.

Cambridge Histories Online
Scholarly overview essays about American and world history from the neolithic (5000 BCE) to the recent past.

History on Oxford Reference
History encyclopedias, dictionaries, and companions.

Cambridge Companions Online
Scholarly essays about literature, religion, history and other topics in the humanities. It covers from the Bronze Age (3000 BCE) to the present.
History Handbooks Online: Oxford 2014 Collection
The Handbook series contain in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.
Atlantic History: Oxford Bibliography
Over 300 peer-reviewed articles on the history of the Atlantic world.
Medieval Studies: Oxford Bibliographies
Over 200 peer-reviewed article on the medieval world.
Renaissance and Reformation: Oxford Bibliography
Over 400 peer-reviewed articles on the Renaissance and Reformation.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and news magazine content.
JSTOR
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.
Project MUSE
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford Reference
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
CQ Researcher plus Archive
Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for locating scholarly literature. Searches scholarly articles, books, and other technical or research content. Often helpful for locating specific articles when you already know the title.