For the government documents collection and special collections materials, specialized indexes may need to be consulted since records for those collections are only partially entered into the library catalog. For subject searching the best search results are obtained by use of the standardized subject headings found in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books. If you start with a keyword search, you can usually find subject heading terms in the catalog record to use in performing a more focused search. Arts and Humanities Search Library Gateway Arts and Humanities Search indexes the contents of scholarly periodicals and books in the arts and humanities, published from 1980 to the present. The scope is international.
Access points are author, title, and subject.
Subject matter includes literature, social sciences and history. Expanded Academic Index Library Gateway EAI indexes over 1800 English language journals in social sciences, humanities, and science, as well as general interest magazines and several important American newspapers. It covers articles published back to 1980. Some of the periodicals in EAI are of a very general nature and are valuable for newsworthiness or basic background, but are not appropriate for scholarly research. This comprehensive set of history bibliographies indexes articles, books and reviews from 2200 scholarly international history periodicals.