Online Tutorials
Click on the link below to take you to the interactive online tutorial.
Electronic Journals
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR - is a based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions.
- Project MuseProject Muse - A searchable database that provides online access to current issues of selected scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. It contains electronic editions of 46 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press since 1995. Excellent search engine. Full text articles.
Databases and Indexes
- Iter : gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowProvides access to an online bibliography for articles, essays, books, and reviews for the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700).
- Fuente academica This link opens in a new windowFuente académica is a collection of full-text scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Topics include history, literature, politics, business, current events, economics, biological sciences, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, sociology and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the 2000s. Content is updated on a weekly basis and currently offers the full text for more than 500 publications from 18 countries.
- PRISMA Database with HAPI Index This link opens in a new windowPRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing 165 full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Articles are in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies.
- Historical abstracts This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in the database, America: History and Life). Indexes the journal and book literature.
- Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & CriticismSearchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism. Each entry includes a selective primary and secondary bibliography.
- Literature Resource CenterInformation that includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications, web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists. Also contains an encyclopedia of literature.
- HAPI online This link opens in a new windowThe Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. For online tutorial, see link at left.
- Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century This link opens in a new windowContains materials from 33 different archival collections that offers content a variety of topics including indigenous peoples, Conquest/Conquista, colonial rule, religion, and social progress.
Cancelled due to budget constraints. Access retained to Historical Collections only.
KU Libraries Search Tool
- Quick SearchKU Libraries' search and discovery tool allows searches across millions of items all at once. Some important databases are NOT included in the search, so if you can't find what you are looking for, ask for assistance.
- Quick Search - TutorialHow to use the KU Libraries Quick Search tool to find multiple resources (articles, books, maps, videos, and more) with one search
- Advanced SearchSearch with PRIMO, but narrow results by limiting the search to only those items that meet specific parameters.