A great way to keep up with new periodical publications is to use BrowZine to create customized list of your favorite scholarly, peer-reviewed journals and News Sources (64 max), which you can access on the web (via BrowZine.com), through a mobile app, or both as it syncs your account across all devices.
UCSD Library's Research Guide dedicated to Newspapers identifies, describes, and provides links to a wide range of news sources resporting on the local to the international level.
UCSD subscribes to hundreds of interdisciplinary and subject-specific databases on virtually every subject available. A few of the most important databases for History are:
1863-present. International database for research on history of all regions (except the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the current decade. Content includes
indexing of historical articles from more than 2,300 journals in over 40 languages.
Search by subject or browse 2,600+ full-text titles, predominantly scholarly journals and books in social sciences, history, humanities, and science and mathematics, to their earliest issues. Many titles extend as far back as late 19th or early 20th centuries; most recent 3-5 years often not included. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
However, because History is such a broad field and addresses a wide range of topics, databases dedicated to literature in other areas (such as Anthropology, Visual Arts, International Studies , Languages and Literature, Area Studies, etc. to name only a few), Thus, it is important to consult Research Guides designed to help with research in other disciplines.
The American Historical Review is THE seminal historical journal providing historiographical essays and book reviews to inform readers about new resources and key work in all historical fields.
The full text of an article within a database is provided in multiple formats. Look for:
The Get it at UC link will provide you options for how to access the full text of the article. If there are no online links available, this means you need to request the item through Interlibrary Loan if a print version is not available at UC San Diego. The Library will deliver the full text of an article to you free of charge. When requesting you will need your Library ID number.
Your library card/account number begins with "21822" and can be found on the back of your UCSD ID card or within the UCSD app. Enter the 14-digit number without spaces.