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History and Politics: Journals

Resources for students studying History, History and Politics, and Philosophy and Politics

Library Discovery

Searching for journals by title video

Searching our journals collection with Browzine

Search e-journals

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

Past and Present cover image
Journal of Contemporary History cover image
British Journal of Politics and International Relations cover image
Women's History Review cover image
Journal of American History cover image
Contemporary Politics cover image
Social History cover image
Contemporary British History cover image
Political Research Quarterly cover image
American Historical Review 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

Searching for journal articles

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

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