LibGuides: History Research Guide: Find Articles

Finding Articles @ the Library

You can use OneSearch on the library homepage as a starting point for finding articles. For more information and tips, please visit the library's guide to using OneSearch. In addition to OneSearch, you can also use the databases below, which are focused on materials within History.

America: History and Life
Database covering history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Limited to 6 consecutive users.
Historical Abstracts
A selective bibliography of the world's historical literature (journal articles, books, dissertations) excluding U.S. and Canadian history. Covers the historical period from 1450 to present, featuring coverage of academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955.
JSTOR
Interdisciplinary database of scholarly journals and other materials, most in full text. Mostly excludes articles published in the past 3-5 years.
Academic Search Complete
Contains indexing for more than 8,100 journals, with full text for nearly 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles
Google Scholar (through Proxy)
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
View All History Databases

How do I find the full article?

First, look for an HTML or PDF full text link. If available, click either link for full text. Otherwise, click the Find It@FresnoState.

If full text is available, click the link for the article. Otherwise, there will be a link for requesting the article through Interlibrary Loan.