Historical Abstracts&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 presentIncludes world history, military history, womens history, history of education, and moreProvides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1964Includes 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, womens 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 TitlesEastern European History Academia Republicii Socialiste Romania. Studii: Revista de Istorie Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, & East European Studies Istoricheski Pregled Zgodovinski CasopisEuropean History French Historical Studies Geschichte In Wissenschaft Und Unterricht Hispania: Revista Espanola de Historia History of European Ideas Journal of British Studies Studi StoriciRussian History Morskoi Sbornik Otechestvennaia Istoriia Sovetskie ArkhivyWorld History Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales English Historical Review Journal of Economic History

America: History & Life: A Selection of TitlesAmerica 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 FieldsEBSCO 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 indexingAll 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 FieldsEBSCOhost 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 FieldsEBSCO has added Source Type SearchingThis enables filtering of retrieved results by publication source

TimelineSeptember 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 2008July 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 & LifeCreated for the scholarly & intensive research communitySuperior abstracting & indexing by ABC Clio.Historical Abstracts primarily covers Renaissance period to present.EBSCO offers more limiters and index browse fields. 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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WelcomeStanding in for Tania Smith, EBSCOIn 2007, HA and America: History & Life sold by ABC-CLIO to EBSCORunning both versions at the moment, but old version will be turned off end of June 2008.Important to know of the differenceOpportunity to re-acquaint with content and usefulness

Bibliographic tool: use to discover publications which are not listed in library catalogues, ie journal articles, book essays, dissertations. Tell us what is published.Needed for systematic literature searches

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Use to check or correct a citation, ie e.g. cant find article in journal issue.What does it cover:

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Good content of foreign language content