Israel
From the Palestine Mandate to the Present

Locating Articles

See also the databases and indexes listed under Locating Primary Sources

Start with these databases:

Historical Abstracts (1955 to present)

Covers world history with the exception of North America from 1450 to the present. Searches may be limited to a particular century or decade using the "Time Period" limiter.

Index to Articles in Jewish Studies (RAMBI) (1965 to present)
Reference Z6367 .J62

Indexes an extraordinary number of scholarly journals carrying articles on Judaica broadly defined. Articles may be in English, Western European languages or Hebrew.

Other important databases:

Academic Search Premier (1984 to present)

Indexes a collection of general interest and scholarly periodicals. Full-text from 1990.

Access UN (1948 to present)

Indexes UN periodicals and provides access to UN publications and documents.

Columbia International Affairs Online (1991 to present)

A collection of working papers, conference papers and research studies relating to international affairs

Factiva (coverage varies; earliest is 1971 to present)

Full-text coverage of over 8000 business and news publications in 22 languages. Excellent for country political and economic conditions. Works only on Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Index Islamicus (1906 to present)
Theology Reference Z7835 .M6 L62 (1906 to present)

A vast index of articles, essays and books relating to Islam, North Africa and the Middle East. It has good coverage of Mandate Palestine and Israeli topics.

Index to Jewish Periodicals (1963 to present)
Reference Z6367 .I5 (1964 to present)
Reference Z6367 .I5 (1988 to present) [CD-ROM]

An author/subject index to selected English language journals of scholarly and general interest.

JSTOR (coverage varies; earliest is 1895 to present)

JSTOR (Journal Storage Project) contains the complete text of every issue of 218 prominent scholarly journals in history, economics, Middle East studies, political science and other fields. Not only is the text of all articles available but every word of every article is searchable. Coverage is usually from the first issue of a journal with a two to five year gap between the latest JSTOR issue and the latest issue published year.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic (ca. 1970 to present)

Contains the complete text of some 1400 newspapers and periodicals. Dates of coverage for individual titles vary but none earlier than 1969.

PAIS International (1971 to present)

The print version, Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, goes back to 1915 and is shelved at Reference Z7163 .P9. This index/bibliography lists articles from magazines, journals and newspapers, books, government documents and research reports issued by non-governmental organizations, think-tanks, and international organizations.

Periodicals Contents Index (1800 to present)

Covers a large number of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences, most of them from the 20th century but some going back into the 19th. You can search by broad subject area ("Area Studies- Middle East"), by keyword, by author, or by keyword in title.

Project Muse (coverage varies; mid-1990's to present)

This database gives full-text access to the contents of 150 journals in the social sciences and humanities. "...Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others."

World News Connection (1994 to present)

Offers a vast number of foreign news sources in full-text translation. It concentrates on political, socioeconomic, technical and environmental issues. For coverage of events from 1975 to 1996, see WNC's predecessor, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1967 to present)

Indexes over a thousand journals drawn from international sources.

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