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Finding Historical Periodicals in the Library Catalog
If you have a title you are looking for, search for it in the library catalog. For instance, if you are interested in The Rambler, an 18th century journal, the library catalog record will show you the location of print copies and links to where you can find issues online.
Otherwise, searching for journals can be tricky, especially if the journal title changed its name during its run. Please feel free to contact me if you need help searching for a particular journal or article!
JSTOR contains access to a wide variety of historic journals. Other collections of historic periodicals can be discovered here:
- American PeriodicalsThis database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
- British PeriodicalsThis database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
- Modernist Journals ProjectThe MJP gives researchers access to free online digital copies of important Modernist journals. Researchers can currently download issues of Blast, The Little Review, The Crisis, and many more titles.