History: Asia: Articles

Historical Abstracts is the best database to use when looking for academic journal articles on modern world history including Asian  history for the period 1450 to the present.

1. Enter terms related to your topic in the search boxes. If you want to specify where in the record your term(s) should be searched, you can select a search field from the optional Select a Field drop-down list.  Select a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) to combine search boxes. AND is the default.
2. Boolean/Phrase searching is the default type of search and is recommended.
3. Choosing the option “linked full text” will only retrieve results that include links to the full text that reside within this database. This is NOT RECOMMENDED, since it doesn’t include the links to full text we provide through UC e-Links and will greatly limit the number of results you retrieve.
4. Some scholarly materials are not peer reviewed so unless you are limiting your search to articles, you might avoid checking this box.
5. This database lists content published since 1964, but you are able to limit your results to works published during certain years.
6. A unique feature of this database is that it also allows you to limit your search results to works about a particular period of time.
7. In addition to articles published in journals, the database includes listings for books, conference papers, disserations, and other scholarly materials.
8. You also have the ability to limit your search to a particular type of work, such as book reviews or dissertations.
9. Much of the content in the database is from English-language publications, but other languages are represented. The language limiter allows you to limit your results to just the languages you can read.

Search tips:

When accommodating variations in spelling, you can use wildcard characters represented by question mark ? or a pound sign #.

Use ? to replace a single character. Example: ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next.

Use # when an alternate spelling may contain an extra character. Example: colo#r to find all citations containing color or colour.

Use the truncation symbol * (asterisk) to look for variant endings of a word. Example: comput* to find the words computer or computing.

Use “quotation marks” to search for an exact phrase.