LibGuides: History: Subject databases

Subject databases

Academic databases are searchable collections of academic material. They can be subject specific as well as multi-disciplinary. By using academic databases you can gain access to a wide range of high-quality academic content including ebooks, journals, audio-visual material, reports and much more.

Below are a list of key (or potentially useful) individual resources for your subject area, plus a link to a list of all our subscribed academic databases. To learn more about these resources, please book a one-to-one appointment with your Academic Services Librarian, Vik Chauhan.

*Please note you will need to be logged into the University of Greenwich portal in order to access all our resources*

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is a streaming platform for higher education. You can watch, listen, record and edit programmes into clips, create playlists and embed clips as well as share what you are watching with other users of the service. There is a growing archive of over one million programmes from over 75 free-to-air television and radio channels. You are advised to use the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT) service (see the 'Databases A to Z' list above) to enhance the search feature of Box of Broadcasts.
Digimap Collections
Digimap is an online map, spatial and data delivery service. The Digimap Society collection provides UK census and socio-economic data in a visual format. Collections include the Ordnance Survey, Historic, Geology, Marine, Environment, Aerial, LiDAR, Global, Society, Pilot, Verisk, agCensus and National Tree Map Collection. Please note that you will be required to register (or re-register annually) and will need to re-accept user licences for each Digimap collection prior to accessing the resource.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages, making ECCO the premier and irreplaceable resource for eighteenth-century research.
GALE Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources allows you to cross-search the newspapers and primary source documents in the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, British Library Newspapers and 19th Century UK Periodicals in one user friendly place. You can also visualize connections between search terms and topics and view relevant articles for those topics and explore the coverage of your search terms, graphed over time and note trends in coverage of multiple topics.
Humanities International Complete (via EBSCOhost)
Contains subjects covering all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. This database provides full-text journals, books and other published humanities sources from around the world. It includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content, much of which is not available in other databases.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across a range of disciplines. The collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities and social sciences. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers
Provides access to the full-text of the entire collection of 18th 19th and 20th century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers that include much of historical legal interest.
Databases A-Z
A to Z list of all academic databases available at the University of Greenwich.