History
Specific Subjects
Article Databases
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html.en
Also known as Toyogaku bunken ruimoku, this is a large-scale bibliography of scholarship in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages on China. It is the creation of Kyoto Univeresity's Institute for Research in Humanities. You don't need to know Japanese to use this database.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ahl
1954- .
Primary index to research in American and Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Limit by language, time period, and document type (articles, collections of articles, books, and dissertations).
American Civil War Research Database
http://0-asp6new.alexanderstreet.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/cwdb
This database includes information from individual soldiers' military and civilian experiences that can be used for statistical and analytical examinations of the Civil War.
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial 
http://old.library.georgetown.edu/service/cdnet/app.cfm?appname=CalendarOfStatPapColonial
1574-1739
Provides transcripts, abstracts, or brief summaries of documents relating to the American and West Indian colonies held in the Public Record Office. Includes material dating from 1574 to 1739 on French, Dutch, and Spanish possessions, and some relating to the West Coast of Africa.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
A searchable index of feminist-oriented literary scholarship on the medieval period (450-1500 CE) in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Provides citations to journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=francis-set-c&adv=1.If
FRANCIS, a multilingual, multidisciplinary database, provides abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers, and other materials in the humanities and social sciences. It contains more than 1 million citations for publications on archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. Its coverage of articles and books on French language and literature is particularly strong.
http://0-www.heinonline.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/HOL/Welcome
Dates vary
One of the premier sources for legal and political information. Full text law journals are a major part, but HeinOnline also includes deep historical collections of U.S. federal government documents. Titles digitized include the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, bills and public laws in the Statutes at Large, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, selected legislative histories, Supreme Court documents, Presidential documents, and more. Search the Sources of Compiled Legislative History database by Public Law or Bill number, from the 37th to the 107th Congress. The U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection has full text legislative histories on significant legislation in banking, civil rights, labor, digital rights, the USA PATRIOT act, and other selected laws.
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=hia
1450- .
Primary index to materials for research in non-U.S./non-Canadian history, including social and cultural history. Includes abstracts (summaries) of journal articles. Covers world history from 1450 to the present.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective 
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HSR
1907-1984.
Indexes book reviews and articles from English-language periodicals, including scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Covers a wide range of interdisciplinary fields (including sciences into the 1950s), represented in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=HUMFT
1984- .
Indexes the major scholarly English-language journals in the humanities (including history and literature). Under Open Database Selection Area, select Humanities Full Text. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
IBZ - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
http://0-gso.gbv.de.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/DB=2.4/LNG=EN/
1983- .
An international and interdisciplinary bibliography of academic periodical literature mainly from the humanities, social sciences and the arts, with some science. Contains over 2,553,260 journal articles from about 10,785 journals covering the years 1983 to the present. Approximately 120,000 entries are added to the database annually; it is updated monthly. The article data in IBZ includes a subject classification in German and English based on the German Personennormdatei (name authority file -PND) and Schlagwortnormdatei (controlled vocabulary - SWD).
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=islamicus-set-c&adv=1
Major index to articles on Islamic history and the languages, literatures, and ethnography of the Islamic world. Also available in a printed version:
International Index to Black Periodicals
http://0-iibp.chadwyck.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1902-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 African-American-oriented and -produced scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Full-text coverage of 25 core black studies periodicals (1998 forward). Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues. An essential tool for identifying articles published in African-American periodicals
International Medieval Bibliography
http://0-www.brepolis.net.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1967- .
The IMB database comprises some 300,000 records, deriving from articles published in periodicals (journals) and in miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues) published world-wide. All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 400-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://0-www.itergateway.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
400-1700.
A bibliography of more than 225,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 300 medieval and renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, this powerful research tool will be of great use to scholars interested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Indexes publications from the mid-1800's to the present.
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.
http://0-www.annee-philologique.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/aph/
1969-
Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world in the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaelogy, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. Coverage begins in 200 B.C. and ends roughly in 800 A.D.
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu:80/journals/
Mid-1990s- (dates vary by title).
Provides access to almost 250 journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and 40 other scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. You can search across all journals in the database, selected subsets of journal titles or just a single title. Full text is available for titles marked with a green arrow.
http://0-www.victoriandatabase.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/victoria.html
1945–
Interdisciplinary in scope and updated annually, the Victorian Database Online provides bibliographic information for publications about all aspects of British studies from 1830 to 1914. The database indexes books and book chapters, dissertation abstracts, and articles from more than 500 journals published in 1945 and after. In addition to literature, topics covered include painting, architecture, and music; philosophy and religion; histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British colonial empire; military and naval history; politics, commerce, and economics; sociology, women's studies, law, and education; and science, technology, and medicine. Victorian Database Online is part of LITIR's Victorian Studies on the Web which, in addition to the database, provides links to recent and award-winning publications and to notable Victorian Web sites.
http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos
1980- .
Web of Science is part of the ISI Web of Knowledge, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. It cumulates three databases: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (the footnotes from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.
