LibGuides: HIS 4355: History &amp; Politics of the Middle East: Databases and Periodicals

Journal Databases

You can use the following journal databases to find current and older articles about the Middle East.

Academic Search Complete
This database covers many subjects found at colleges and universities. Contains articles from thousands of journals, magazines, news sources, and videos from the Associated Press.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers journals, ebooks, and primary source collections, allowing researchers to retrieve high-resolution scanned images as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The resources archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Sage Journals
Provides access to journals for the Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Contains articles from journals and magazines, plus books and conference papers on all aspects of sociology. The full text in the title means that for some the resources, the entire resource in available in the database.

Gale In Context: World History
Provides information on hundreds of world history topics. For each topic or person, there is a topic overview, and also rare primary sources, magazine, journal and news articles, encyclopedia and dictionary articles, images, video and audio files, (if available) and for some topics, websites.
Gale in Context : Global Issues
Gale In Context: Global Issues supports global awareness and provides a global perspective while tying together a wealth of authoritative content, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more, Global Issues is updated daily and offers 250 country pages and more than 400 issue pages. Exclusive to Global Issues, more than 6,000 viewpoint commentaries provide background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, Extreme Weather, and more.

Paper Periodical Indices

Before there were journal databases, there were paper journal indexes. While they are harder to use than the journal databases, they index the journals and magazines of the past that could still be useful to find articles on your topic.

Humanities Index
Call Number: Located on 2nd floor
An Index of selected periodicals (345) in the subjects of archology, classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology, and related subjects.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
Call Number: Located on 2nd floor
Publication Date: 1802-1906
Indexes 216 general periodicals This index was begun by William Frederick Poole and first published in 1853, with later editions and supplements that brought the coverage of periodicals from 1802 to 1906.
Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
Call Number: Located on 2nd FLoor
Publication Date: 1982-2007
This is a cummulative author-subject index to about 275 popular interest magazines, including American History, Arizona Highways, Astronomy, Atlantic Monthly, Better Homes and Garden, Christianity Today, D (Dallas), Jet, Maclean's. New Republic, Newsweek, Pyshcology Today, Reader's Digest and Time.
Social Sciences Index
Call Number: Located on 2nd Floor
Publication Date: 1982-2000
An index of selected periodicals (415) in the subjects of anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects.

More Online Periodicals

Contemporary Review of the Middle East
Seeks to publish original research articles that analyse contemporary Middle Eastern developments in the fields of security, politics, economy and culture.
Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies
Middle East Critique provides a forum to develop intellectually innovative perspectives on and through key political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the contemporary Middle East/West Asia and North Africa.
Digest of Middle East Studies
A refereed, quarterly journal dedicated to publishing original research on domestic and international policy issues in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. DOMES offers new and compelling analyses on some of the most urgent and complex issues and policy challenges at the nexus of politics, society, religion, and economy.
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa
Publishes research on the historic social, economic and political links between Africa and the Middle East, from perspectives like economics, history and more.
Middle Eastern Studies
Middle Eastern Studies provides the most up-to-date academic research on the history and politics of the Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa as well as on Turkey, Iran and Israel, particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Middle East Journal
The Middle East Journal explores the region's political and economic development, cultural and literary heritage, and ethnic and religious diversity. Published quarterly since 1947, the Journal provides peer-reviewed research and analysis on the region, on the area from Morocco to Pakistan.