Key databases
Search databases for online journal articles and books relating to your topic. Explore more databases at the Database A-Z list, or dive straight into journals from Journal Search on the ACU Library website.
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Historical AbstractsCovers the history of the world (excluding the USA and Canada), focusing on the 15th century to the present.
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Cambridge HistoriesA series of 300+ volumes, spanning subjects across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
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Oxford AcademicA single point of entry to search or browse across Oxford University Press’s research books and academic journals. Includes full text books and articles which can be read online in HTML as well as downloaded/printed in PDF format.
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ProQuest Research LibraryLarge, multidisciplinary database with a diverse mix of scholarly journals, professional & trade publications, and magazines. Covers business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology, social sciences, and the arts.
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Project MuseFull text scholarly journals and recent ebooks in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Subjects include literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
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JSTORAcademic journals, books and primary sources in the arts and humanities.
Early Modern to Contemporary history
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History Today
Presents essays and research articles dealing with a wide range of topics pertaining to ancient and modern world history. -
Journal of Contemporary History
The Journal of Contemporary History is a quarterly peer-reviewed international journal publishing articles and book reviews on twentieth-century history (post-1930), covering a broad range of historical approaches including social, economic, political, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural. -
Journal of Global History
JGH publishes articles that examine structures, processes and theories of global change, inequality and stability, as well as articles focusing on smaller scales that are in keeping with, or transcend, the boundaries of historical polities or environments.
Indigenous peoples and Australian history
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Journal of Australian Colonial History
The Journal of Australian Colonial History produces one volume annually on subjects including convict history, bushranging, Aboriginal-settler relations, nineteenth century legal and medical developments, colonial nationalism and republicanism, colonial literature, imperial history, biography, and various aspects of Australia's early social, economic and political history. -
Australian Journal of Politics and History
Australian Journal of Politics and History publishes papers addressing significant problems of interest to those working in the fields of history, political science and international relations. Articles explore the intersection between politics and history, intellectual history, political history, and the history of political thought. -
Aboriginal HistoryAn annual journal that contains interdisciplinary historical studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ interactions with non-Indigenous peoples
Medieval history
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Medieval EncountersMedieval Encounters promotes discussion and dialogue across cultural, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries on the interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim cultures from the fourth to the sixteenth century C.E.
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The Medieval History Journal
The Medieval History Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that encourages thematic, temporal or spatial transitions over the centuries comprising the medieval and the early modern epochs providing scope for comparative and transcultural conversations within scholarship. -
Renaissance Quarterly
Renaissance Quarterly is the leading American journal of Renaissance studies, encouraging connections between different scholarly approaches to bring together material spanning the period from 1300 to 1700.
Ancient history
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Hesperia
The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. A core source for new research in classical studies and other fields of humanistic scholarship related to the Greek world. -
Classical quarterly
The Classical Quarterly publishes research papers and short notes in the fields of language, literature, history and philosophy. -
Journal of Roman studies
Peer-reviewed papers on Roman history and Latin literature form the larger part of each issue. Papers on art history and archaeology are also published. The journal seeks to publish articles with wide implications for our understanding of the Roman world.
Conducting research
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Research Methods Primary SourcesDesigned as a tool to support students of the humanities and social sciences, Research Methods Primary Sources introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence.
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SAGE Research MethodsSupports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process, allowing students to explore by discipline and content type.
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Essaying the Past by Publication Date: 2016Guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of producing good historical prose, offering key strategies and useful tips. Includes expert advice on writing about history, conducting good research, and learning how to think analytically -
Going to the Sources by Publication Date: 2017Presenting various schools of thought, this useful tool explores the dynamic, nature, and professional history of research papers, and shows readers how to identify, find, and evaluate both primary and secondary sources for their own writing assignments. -
Quantitative Methods in the Humanities by Publication Date: 2019This guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, "big data," or "digital humanities." The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool, applicable to a myriad of materials from the past. Their book, accessible to complete beginners, offers detailed advice and practical tips on how to build a dataset from historical sources and how to categorize it according to specific research questions.
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Last reviewed: 28 October 2022