LibGuides: History and Politics: Journals

Library Discovery

Searching for journals by title video

Searching our journals collection with Browzine

Using the Inter-Library Loan service

Article not in library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain journal articles not held by the university. Primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers or academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans.

Recommended journals and magazines

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British Journal of Politics and International Relations cover image

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Political Research Quarterly cover image

Journals and magazines

What are journals?

Journals are like academic magazines. Most of our journals are available online, but we also have a small collection of professionally focused magazines in print.

Journals are

published regularly: daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly - therefore they can contain very up-to-date material
generally the first place that scholarly research is published
often 'peer reviewed', this means that articles have been critically reviewed by experts prior to being published.

Academic or professional?

We provide access to a variety of journals in literature and language, all of which might be useful for your studies. They might contain

book and theatre reviews
academic discussion and research
contextual information

Searching for journal articles video

Humanities Source This link opens in a new window
Database of journal articles for all Humanities subjects, including creative writing, drama, English, history, philosophy, religion and theology.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. The library's subscription gives full access to the journal archive and primary source collections.
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Sage Premier Collection This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary e-journals collection from Sage Publishing.
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Taylor and Francis Journals This link opens in a new window
Access to the Social Sciences and Humanities, and Science and Technology journal collections from Taylor and Francis
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A-Z of all UoG library databases
To find additional resources, look at Library Guides for other relevant subject areas or visit the A-Z at the link above.

Often external search tools will find additional resources or rank them differently. Do beware: external sites may not always log you in to UoG content. Check back with Library Discovery if you want to see if we have access to the full text, or download the LibKeyNomad extension.

ConnectedPapers
Creates a visual map of published research, shows links between papers containing references. 5 free maps per month.
Core
A vast collection of open access research papers
Elicit
A free AI literature search tool using similar natural language searching Displays and summarises relevant papers. See FAQ.
GoogleScholar
Searches scholarly materials. Use Settings to select the Library Links to access content to which the UoG Library subscribes.
SemanticScholar
Searches and retrieves scholarly publications based on the importance and relevance of cited papers using machine learning techniques.

LibKey Nomad web browser extension

LibKey Nomad This link opens in a new window
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension you can use to link to full text content provided by the library, from different research sites.

Find out more by watching the short video which explains how the extension works.