Modern History

Academic journals are scholarly periodicals (i.e. publications which come out on a regular schedule) which contain articles on specific subjects.

They are important in academic research for a number of reasons:

• they are an important forum by which historical research is published,

• they can explore a narrow historical topic or problem in depth,

• they contain current or recent research findings,

• they normally go through a process called peer-review, which means that research findings are checked by other subject experts

Use the Library website to search across multiple databases:

You can access the Electronic journals search by clicking on the hyperlinked text, or by going to the main library website, clicking on the find tab, and selecting 'Electronic Journals' from the drop-down menu. You can use the Electronic Journals search to search the library's collection of journals. If you are looking for a journal about a particular topic or have found a likely looking article in a bibliography and want to check if we have access, this is often a good place to go.

Browzine is another way to search the library's journal collections--if you prefer getting information in a visual format, you may want to start here.