Historical Abstracts (published 1955- )

Database Description
Fields in This Database:
· Authors
· Titles and Publishing Information
· Subjects
· Abstract and Contents
· Issue Numbering
· Codes

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Database Description: Historical Abstracts is a bibliographic database covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

Over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country and journals of regional history, Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Journal list.

Historical Abstracts also cites new books reviewed in key English-language history and review journals. Dissertation citations relevant to the serial's subject scope are derived from Dissertation Abstracts International.

Historical Abtracts is a resource for researchers in the following fields:

• History
• Anthropology
• Genealogy
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• Multicultural Studies
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Religion
• Sociology
• Women's Studies/Gender Studies
• History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law

PRODUCED BY: ABC-CLIO.
DATES COVERED: Published 1955 to present.
UPDATES: Three times per year.

Fields in This Database

AUTHORS

AUTHOR/EDITOR (.AU.): AU retrieves authors of articles and dissertations, and authors and editors of books. Names are given in inverted order, last name first, followed by first and middle names or initials. All words are indexed. If you are unsure how the name is given, begin searching by surname only. For hyphenated surnames, use either surname or both.

ARTICLE AUTHOR (.AA.): Searching by AA retrieves authors of journal articles and dissertations.

BOOK AUTHOR (.BKAU.): Searching by BKAU retrieves only authors of books.

TITLES AND PUBLISHING INFORMATION

TITLE (.TI.): Title of article, dissertation, or book.

JOURNAL TITLE (.JN.): Journal in which article appeared.

COLLECTION OR SERIES TITLE (.CT.): For papers published as part of a collection, festschrift, etc., or books published as part of a series, CT gives the name of the collection or series.

DISSERTATION DATA (.DISS.): For dissertation citations, DISS names the institution and year of the dissertation. This field uses abbreviations "Coll." and "U."

PUBLISHING INFORMATION (.PUB.): For book citations, PUB contains publisher's name, place, and date of publication. State names and common words like "University" or "Press" are abbreviated.

TRANSLATED TITLE (.TT.): For items published in languages other than English, the TT field gives the title in English.

SUBJECTS

SUBJECTS (.SU.): Index terms assigned by the database producers to describe the subject content of the document. SU contains all kinds of subject terminology, including topics, place names, personal names, and organization names.

ABSTRACT and CONTENTS

ABSTRACT (.AB.): Omit stopwords when searching words from an abstract.

CONTENTS (.CON.): Some records in this database represent multiple articles published together in a special issue. Individual articles -- author, title, brief abstract -- are described in the CON field. Omit stopwords when searching.

ISSUE NUMBERING

YEAR (.YR.): Publication year for articles or books, or year of authorship for dissertations.

VOLUME (.VO.): Volume of the journal in which the article appeared.

ISSUE NUMBER (.IP.): Number of the issue in which the article appeared.

ARTICLE PAGES (.PG.): If you remember the starting page of an article but not the full citation, searching with PG might be useful. Enter the starting page and the truncation symbol $.

CODES

ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by AN is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.

ARTICLE TYPE (.AT.): A word describing the type of publication. "Collection" is a book of collected papers (only collections published 1962-1981 are in this database).

Article
Book
Collection
Dissertation

DATE RANGE (.DTRG.): Date range covered by the topic. This field might be useful for searching if you can predict the format of the date, for example, if you find one record from the relevant date range and want to find more in that exact same range. DTRG may be a single year, range of years, decade, or century. Examples:

1919
1945-95
1748-1961
1930s
18c
15c-1775
12c-16c
500-300 BC
5c BC-4c BC

ISSN (.IS.): The International Standard Serial Number of the journal.

LANGUAGE (.LA.): The language of the article, book, or dissertation, spelled out in full.

TIME PERIOD (.TM.): Coded time periods allow quick retrieval of subjects by decade or century. To search by time period, enter a round-number date (such as 1900 or 1910), followed by H (for hundreds) or D (for decade). Examples:

1800H: 1800-1899
1800D: 1800-1809
1920D: 1920-1929
1500H: 1500-1599
BC800H: 801BC-900BC (9th century B.C.)

Multiple codes are assigned if applicable. Documents covering more than five decades in the same century have only hundreds coded, not decades. Documents covering more than six centuries are not coded in this field. Search examples:

EXAMPLE: (1800h or 1900h).tm.
RESULTS: Entries dealing with the eighteen or nineteen hundreds (1800-1999).

EXAMPLE: (1820d and 1830d and 1840d).tm.
RESULTS: Entries dealing with the 1820's, 1830's, and 1840's (1820-1849). For entries dealing with the 1820's, 1830's, or 1840's use the OR operator between each search term.

EXAMPLE: (1890d and 1900h).tm.
RESULTS: Entries dealing with the 1890's and the 20th century (1890-1999).

EXAMPLE: bc800h.tm.
RESULTS: Entries dealing with the 9th century BC (801 BC-900 BC).

EXAMPLE: bc$.tm.
RESULTS: All BC entries.

April 2003

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