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Periodicals Archive Online is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It provides researchers with access to more than 200 years of scholarship, spread across a wide variety of subject areas.

Includes full-text of 302 periodicals published during 1833-1911, covering such critical periods later known as the Opium Wars, Westernization Movement, Reform Movement of 1898, and Revolution of 1911. Note: Please click "USE" to enter database.

晚清期刊全文數據庫(1833～1911) 共收錄了從1833年至1911年間出版的三百餘種期刊，幾乎囊括了鴉片戰爭、洋務運動、戊戌變法和辛亥革命等時期出版的所有期刊，擁有眾多的“期刊之最”，是研究晚清歷史的專業人士必備的數據庫檢索工具

This resource contains collected essays in medieval studies published by Brepols during 1998-2011. Approximately 300 miscellany volumes with 5,200 articles have been collected. Each essay/article is indexed and searchable and can be read without the rest of the collection, although searching at the book level is also possible. Geographic scope is Europe and surrounding areas, and span the time period of 330-1563 CE. All content is indexed in the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)

Full text of hundreds of popular British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

This database covers the study of international women's history, feminism and the feminist movement. It consists of periodicals, books, and pamphlets in 15 languages.

From 1841 to 1992 Punch was, arguably, the worlds most celebrated magazine of humor and satire. The database is composed of about 7,900 issues (200,000 pages) from all volumes of Punch between 18411992. It includes almanacks and other special numbers, as well as prefaces, epilogues, indexes and other specially produced material from the bound volumes. Images originally published in full color appear in full color in the archive.

1890-1920, digitized periodicals collection held by the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, documenting the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist periods in the history of Latin American labor movements.

The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals database includes digitized images from American magazines and journals from 1684 - 1912. Detailing American history and culture, these specialized collections cover advertising, health, women's issues, science, the history of slavery, industry and professions, religious issues, culture and the arts, and much more.

Full text of popular periodicals published between 1740 and 1940 in the United States, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines. Now updated with labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries.

Major magazines devoted to LGBT+ interests, dating from the 1950s to recent years.

Covers a wide range of music related subjects in both scholarly and popular music journals. Date range: 1874-present.

The full backfiles of leading womens interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005.

The Fireside Companions and Family Literature Periodicals, 1805-1877 collection draws from a rich tradition of family and children's literature. Many of the titles found here focus on courtship, marriage and child-rearing by emphasizing moral, wholesome, family living. Highlights include the New York Fireside Companion, Merry's Museum, and Parley's Magazine. Researchers can also find a number of children's Sunday School and temperance periodicals. Taken together, the titles comprising this collection enable scholars to study not only prescribed values but also the social and family dynamics of nineteenth-century America.

The Foreign Language Periodicals in America, 1684-1904 presents periodicals published in foreign languages primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries. These publications cut across subjects -- and include religious, literary, and political magazines -- speaking to and reflecting the interests and concerns of immigrant and ethnic communities. In addition to works published in the United States, titles also come from Paris, Montreal, London, Hamburg, Leipsig, and Mexico; languages including French, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Swedish, and Welsh are represented.