Everett Library: History: START

Top Databases for History

America: History and Life with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic reference covering the history, culture, area studies, and current affairs literature of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text issues of scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and general sciences. Some journals have coverage back to the 1600s.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
A style guide for American English that covers topics from manuscript preparation to grammar, usage, and how to format citations.

Cabell's Predatory Reports

Cabells Predatory Reports This link opens in a new window
The Predatory Reports identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals. Specialists identify and analyze over 65 behavioral indicators to flag potentially exploitative or dishonest operations.

Cabell's Predatory Reports is a tool for fighting back against a growing trend that threatens to undermine scholarly communication.

Students and faculty should use this database to evaluate the academic integrity of a journal. This database does not provide journal articles, only evaluations of journals. You may search by title, discipline, ISSN, country, and publisher.

Cabell's evaluative process is thoroughly documented. Each summary contains the basic information necessary in identifying a predatory journal. This includes the title of the journal, its publisher, any claimed ISSNs, geographic location, website, open access and launch date. In every report, they categorize and detail each violation and provide a transparent view of the investigated journal.

To achieve these reports specialists analyze over 60 behavioral indicators, screening for everything from misleading metrics to irregular publication practices. Their criteria-based methodology, informed by industry expertise and community support, objectively evaluates whether a journal is predatory. A complete record of when, what and why a journal is put in Predatory Reports gives users the ability to see deceptive behaviors first-hand and to make clear and safe decisions.