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 more focused search. Indexes and Databases Arts and Humanities Search Library Gateway Arts and Humanities 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 covered includes literary, social and historical topics.
As an index, EAI covers over 1800 English-language periodicals in social sciences, humanities, and science, as well as general interest magazines and several important American newspapers. Articles are indexed back to 1980. This comprehensive set of history bibliographies indexes articles, books and reviews from 2200 scholarly international periodicals. It covers the history of all countries of the world except the United States and Canada. The format of the print version features author and subject indexes whose entries refer to a separate volume listing full bibliographic citations with abstracts.