Early Magazine/Journal Articles
How do I find early magazine or journal articles?
Specific Titles
Search for other journals in the Library's collection using the Library Catalog and/or Lens and/or eJournals.
Historical Collections
General
- Eighteenth Century Journals Section II
British and Irish journals and newspapers dating from 1699 to 1812.
- Internet Library of Early Journals
Runs of at least 20 consecutive years of three 18th-century British journals and three 19th-century British journals.
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
(About C19 Index)
Indexes a wide range of U.S. and British periodical literature, drawing upon the following indexes and others. Searching in C19 may produce different results than searching each database separately. Different search options are available, and in some cases the coverage is different as well.
- American Periodicals Series Online
(About APS)
Contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.
- British Periodicals Collection I
(About British Periodicals)
Contains over 160 periodicals published between the late 17th and early 20th centuries. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
- Periodicals Index Online
(About Periodicals Index Online)
Indexes over 5,000 periodicals, both scholarly and general, from the first issue to its terminal date, or through the mid-1990's. Includes numerous foreign-language titles, and many older, long-ceased titles commencing as early as 1665. Topical indexing appears to be mainly from title words, or translations of words in the article titles. Periodicals Archive Online is the full-text subset of Periodicals Index Online.
- Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature
(About Poole's)
Indexes 479 American and English periodicals for the years 1802–81. Also in print (other editions available) and in 19th Century Masterfile.
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
(About The Wellesley Index)
Identifies articles and the authors of articles within 45 major Victorian periodicals, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century. The exception to this is the Edinburgh Review, which is indexed from the first issue, in 1802. Also in print.
- Compact Memory: Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika
Over 100 of the most important Jewish periodicals in German-speaking countries from 1806 to 1938.
- Making of America (MOA)
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective
Valuable resource for U.S. culture and history, indexing the contents of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890-1982. Also in print: Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide and Readers' Guide.
Academic
- Digizeitschriften
Searchable full text of German scholarly journals.
- JSTOR
Searchable full text of major scholarly journals from the first issue until roughly 3-5 years ago.
- Persée
Searchable full text of French scholarly journals from the first issue until roughly 3-5 years ago.
Additional Online Indexes
- 19th Century Masterfile
Brings together over 60 subject indexes, including numerous indexes to periodicals: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1907; Stead's Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902, Richardson's ...Index... to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899; Jones and Chipman's Index to Periodical Legal Literature, 1786-1922, etc.
- HeritageQuest Online
Includes Periodical Source Index (PERSI), covering more than 6,300 genealogy and history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800.
- Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
Indexes 42 art journals published in the U.S. during the 19th century. Valuable source of information for popular culture and industry, as well as artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting.
- Index to Yiddish Periodicals
Ongoing project to record the materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) until 1939 (in the Soviet Union: until 1948).
Research Guides
- Guide to Reference
The American Library Association's Guide to Reference is useful for selecting additional resources. Includes a section on Periodicals with entries for works like the following.
- Early Periodical Indexes
Comprehensive annotated bibliography of about 400 titles providing indexing to articles published before 1900. Most cited references are to subject bibliographies rather than traditional periodical indexes. Subject matter is completely multidisciplinary, covering the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and the bibliography itself is arranged by classified subject. Includes four indexes: author, title, subject, and dates of coverage.
- Electronic Full Text Services (EFTS)
The Library's EFTS web pages group numerous humanities collections by language and other categories. Some include periodicals, for example Gallica (BnF) in the French section.
- Research Guides by Subject
Subject guides created for the Library's web site present additional resources.
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