Database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1955 to present, America: History & Life with Full Text also provides full-text coverage of more than 200 journals and nearly 100 books.
This video demonstrates how to conduct a search in the database America: History and Life. The techniques in this video will also work for the world history database, Historical Abstracts. Note: these databases will look a little different from the video, but the advanced search still works.
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that makes off-campus searching easier. While searching online/outside of library databases, you can quickly access articles and ebooks provided by the library.
Watch the video below to learn how to add and use the LibKey Nomad Browser Extension
Searching library databses, you'll encounter lots of abstracts. Abstracts are summary records for articles, but they do not contain the full content of a source. This video demonstrates how to use the "Get It" to get to the full-text article from an abstract record.
Scholarly journals contain more than peer reviewed articles, they also contain reviews of scholarly books. Many students accidently download book reviews thinking they are articles. This video demonstrates how to recognize a book review and differentiate it from an article.