Pre 1600 Sources

1600-1700 (17th Century)

1700-1800 (18th Century)

1800-1900 (19th Century)

• 19th Century Masterfile
• Index to the New York Times
• Name Index to The New York Times
• Times (London) Index (alternately Palmers Index to the Times)
• Nineteenth Century Readers Guide
• HarpWeek
• Accessible Archives
• CIS Universe
• ESTC

1900- (20th Century)

∑ Alternative Press Index 1969-
Index to the radical press of the 1970’s. Find out what the anti war and labor and women’s publications were publishing.
∑ L'Année philologique; bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine 1924-
Multilingual index to articles concerning classical culture. Good for Ancient history.
∑ Art Index 1929-
Index to articles about art, including art history, folk art, sculpture, architecture, painting and anything art related.
∑ Biological Abstracts 1926-
History of biology and scientific development.
o Abstracts of Bacteriology 1917-1921
o Botanical Abstracts 1918-1926
∑ Biological and Agricultural Index 1964 –
Agricultural/farming developments.
o Agricultural Index 1916-64
∑ Chemical Abstracts/Chem Abstracts 1907-
History of chemistry and chemical related industries.
o Review of American Chemical Research 1905-1906
∑ Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974
Index to book reviews. Discover the reception of Margaret Mead’s work in anthropology, for instance.
∑ Education Index 1929-
History of education and educational theory.
∑ Essay and General Literature Index 1900 –
Indexes essays in books.
∑ Index Islamicus 1906-
Index to the study of the Islamic world.
∑ Index Medicus 1879-
Index to articles on all aspects of medicine.
∑ Industrial Arts Index 1912-1957
The practical index or index to publications to the trades, business, technical sciences, etc. This index later split into the two titles below.
o Business Periodicals Index 1958 -
o Applied Science and Technology Index 1958 –
∑ International Index To Periodicals 1901-1965
Index to scholarly journal articles. Parallel index to Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, which indexes popular articles. Split into the indexes below.
o Social Sciences and Humanities Index 1965-1974
ß Social Sciences Index 1974-
ß Humanities Index 1974-
∑ PAIS International | Public Affairs Information Service 1990-
Index to articles in public administration and the operation of governments.
o PAIS Bulletin 1986-1990
o Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin 1915 –1986
∑ Psychological Abstracts 1927 –
History of the study of psychology.
∑ Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900. Walter E. Houghton (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press & Routledge & Kegan Paul. Major nineteenth century British periodicals with listing of table of contents, issue by issue.