These databases contain articles, papers, and abstracts (short summaries) on specific subjects. They should be used for searching for reliable writing about a particular topic and for when you need to conduct a more focussed search than the library search engine provides. The following are particularly recommended for history.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Project Muse provides full-text, high quality articles for the humanities and social sciences from over 120 publishers
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Access to Oxford University Press journals. If the University of Lincoln subscribes to a listed journal, then many of that journal's articles will also be available in full text.
Abstracts and some full-text scholarly articles from Cambridge University Press on the humanities, social sciences and STEM displines. Includes the Digital Journals Archive.
Abstract and index database of articles from academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature from scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
Access journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
The library subscribes to a number of PhD and MA dissertation databases which you may find useful when writing your own dissertation or exploring a subject in depth.
Searchable index of UK theses with full text available to order.
Information and a searchable index of international electronic theses and dissertations, including some open-access titles.
Search and view open access theses and dissertations.
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
If you wish to access full text theses, please make sure the "Full text" option is ticked under the search bar.
