Databases to Consider
Harvard Library's extensive collection of e-resources can be browsed by clicking on the DATABASES tab at the top of this guide (and at the top of all library main pages).
To make your initial efforts at exploration more focused and less overwhelming, we recommend you start your immigration-themed research with one (or more) of these key resources:
SUBJECT and AREA-FOCUSED
- America: History and Life: focuses exclusively on scholarship about the U.S. and Canada, prehistory to present; a gold standard.
- Bibliography of British and Irish History Online: covers all periods for which there is documentation -- 55BCE - present.
- Historical Abstracts: scholarship on world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, 1450 -present.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
- JSTOR: mix of key scholarly journals; usually has an embargo on the most recent 1-3 years
- Google Scholar: adds full-text searching into its multidisciplinary mix; good for following citation trails.
- Academic Search Premier: mix of news, magazines, scholarly journals
