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Open Access journal articles

Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for users of open access journals.

Journal articles

Gale Academic OneFile
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Contains content from over 17,000 scholarly journals, of which more than 8,000 are available in full text, in Criminal Justice, Economics, Environmental Science, History, Marketing, Media & Fine Arts, Political Science, and Psychology. Also includes videos and podcasts from authoritative sources such as BBC Worldwide Learning. Available on trial basis till December 31, 2020.

Search the subject index to find articles tagged with specific subject terms.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a citation database, covering academic journals worldwide in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, and conference proceedings. It provides cover-to-cover indexing, from 1975 till present.

To search for a specific journal in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index or view all journals in this index, see this page.
The Web of Science Core Collection consists of:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) --1975-present
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) --1975-present
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) --1975-present
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) --1990-present
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) --2015-present
Date range: 1975 - present
Related databases: Scopus, Dimensions
Scopus
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature (journals and books).

Date range: 1823 - 1970 (abstracts included where available); 1970 - present (records including references - in development)
Related databases: Web of Science, Dimensions
Historical Abstracts
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Bibliographic database covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Indexes abstracts from journal articles, books, conference proceedings, newspapers, periodicals and dissertations in over 40 languages.

Date range:1953-present

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
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Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes the full text of roughly a quarter of the journals and some 150 ebooks indexed in Historical Abstracts (without full text - see above).

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Please note you need to be a member of the KB before you can access the database. More information on how to become a member can be found on this page.

Would you like access the full text of a specific article or book that you found in Historical Abstracts? Then you could first check if the full text is actually available by consulting the Content Lists on the homepage of HAwFT.
Google Scholar
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Search engine for journal articles and abstracts.

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Want to get the most out of Google Scholar? Check this e-module on our Training & Support portal.

Project Muse
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Full-text access to high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 200 scholarly publishers.

Date range: 1993 - present
Related database: JSTOR
JSTOR
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Full-text access to high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 120 scholarly publishers.
For an overview of the indexed journals in History, see this page.

Date range: In general journals have been indexed from the first issue. Please note that in most cases the last three to five volumes are not available via JSTOR.

The EUR subscribes to the collections
- Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VI, VII and IX
- Business I
- Health & General Sciences

DigiZeitschriften - History
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Online archive of digitised and digital-born German scholarly journals, periodicals, state papers and government periodicals, from the nineteenth century untill today.

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Please note that the most recent volumes of journals are only made available after an embargo period of 1-5 years.

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Open Access journal articles

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