Journals

Back Issues* and Historical Journals

*Back issues: more than a year old

• Select Databases
• Historical Resources

Back Issues may be available as either:

• Bound print issues shelved in Alderman Stack by call number, or
• microform, shelved by call number in the Periodicals/Microforms Room, or
• Electronic full-text at UVA. See list by subject and by database. See also the selected databases listed below.

Select Databases

InfoTrac - UVA only
Huge general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Not all articles indexed are full-text, but many are full-text, many with images. Coverage 1980 to present, varies with journal title. Updated daily.

JSTOR - UVA only
Full text back files of many important scholarly journals; some coverage back to end of the 19th century. See list of journal titles and dates of coverage.

Project Muse - UVA only
Project MUSE provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of Johns Hopkins University Press's over 200 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Dates covered include last 5 to 7 years only.

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Historical Resources

See also resources on finding 18th and 19th century periodical articles and literature. From NYU's Bobst Library. Resources listed include the following items as well as many others available at UVA.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 - UVA only
Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. |

Harpers Weekly, 1857-1865 - UVA only
Search by subject, date or occupation. Or browse by genre.

Internet Library of Early Journals - unrestricted use
A digital library of British 18th and 19th century journals. Example titles: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Research Resources for American Periodicals - unrestricted use
Access to sites with full texts and selected texts of magazines and newspapers on the web. The Making of America Collection of 19th century titles, as well as sites devoted to single titles of African-American, Social Gospel, and women's journals, are among the selections.

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