The BC History Internet/Web Site: Periodicals

The British Columbia History Internet/Web Site

History Periodicals/Magazines

Chiefly North American

Titles and Online Issues

Jump to Periodical and Magazine Search Tools

Note: Some titles not specifically devoted to history, but with articles or references to articles on British Columbia history, are also listed here.

BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
Beautiful British Columbia (Victoria) includes a database of past articles.
The Beaver (Canada's National History Society, Winnipeg, MB)
British Columbia History: Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation. Sample articles from the latest issue are available for download, along with contents of recent issues, and an index of selected past issues. Date updated: 2005.12.16.
The Canadian Geographer (Journal of the Canadian Association of Geographers) contains abstracts of articles
Canadian Geographic Online (Royal Canadian Geographical Society)
Canadian Historical Review (University of Toronto Press)
Canadian Issues (Annual publication of the Association for Canadian Studies)
Canadian Journal of Communication (Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, Vancouver) includes text of articles in back issues and a search engine.
Canadian Journal of Education
Canadian Journal of History
Canadian Journal of Law & Society
Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Institute of Urban Studies, Winnipeg)
Canadian Public Policy (School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston)
Canadian Theatre Review (University of Toronto Press)
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History (Washington State Historical Society)
Electronic Journal of International History (Institute of Contemporary British History, University of London, UK)
Essays on Canadian Writing (ECW Press)
International Journal of Maritime History (Journal of the International Martime Economic History Asssociation)
Heritage Post Interactive (Canada)
Histoire sociale/Social History (University of Toronto Press)
History and Computing (Association for History and Computing)
History Reviews On-Line (University of Cincinnati)
Journal for Multimedia History (Dept. of History, State University of New York, Albany)
Journal of Canadian Art History
Journal of the Association for History and Computing (American Association for History and Computing)
Labour/Le Travail (Canadian Committee on Labour History)
Left History (Dept. of History, York University)
Northwest Journal (Northwest Brigade Club)
Pacific Northwest Quarterly (University of Washington, Seattle)
Photographic Canadiana
Reviews in American History (Johns Hopkins University Press). Each issue presents in-depth reviews of important books covering all specialties of American history: economics, military history, women in history, law, political history and philosophy, religion, social history, intellectual history, and cultural history.
Sandhill Creek Reporter (Saanich Historical Artifacts Society)
Scientia Canadensis. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Science and Technology History Association. ISSN 0829-2507. Established in 1976 as a newsletter for researchers in the field of historical research into Canadian science and technology, the publication has been issued annually as a scholarly journal since 1981. Date added: 2002.10.25.
SHALE: Journal of the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society

Shuswap Chronicles

thirdspace (Vancouver) is an electronic feminist journal presenting the work of emerging scholars.

The British Columbia Digital Library is an international guide to digital collections of electronic publications (books and serials in digital facsimile [images] or hypertext form) with an emphasis on BC and Canadian content. Date updated: 2002.10.25.

The Canadian Association of Learned Journals=Association canadienne des revues savantes (Ottawa, ON) maintains a linked list of all member publications.

The Canadian Electronic Scholarly Network (CESN) is an initiative of Canada's SchoolNet, an Industry Canada project.

The International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ICAAP, Athabasca University, Alberta) is a Canadian initiative to provide a non-commercial publishing medium for online scholarly publication.

Check the Victoria Telecommunity Network's Hypertext/media Magazine & Newspaper Collections via World-Wide Web for global, comprehensive sites and individual Canadian titles.

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Serials (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines) Search Tools

BC Newspaper Index (Legislative Library). Index to the Province, Vancouver Sun, and Times-Colonist (ca. 1992-present). A Java-enabled browser is required to access the library's catalogue.
BC Periodical Index (Legislative Library). Index to selected periodicals (ca. 1993-present) focusing on economic, political and social issues. A Java-enabled browser is required to access the library's catalogue.
The Canadian Architect and Builder Online (1888-1908) (Blackader-Lauterman Library, McGill University, Montreal, and Canada's Digital Collections).
Canadian Historical Association Index to Annual Reports and to Historical Papers compiled by Isabelle Dornic and Jérôme Coutard
Canadian Illustrated News: Images in the News (National Library of Canada and Canada's Digital Collections). A searchable/browsable selection of nearly 4,000 images from this magazine published in Montreal, Quebec, from 1869 to 1883.
Canadian Music Periodical Index (National Library of Canada) complements the Music Education Resource Base
FindArticles.com (LookSmart and the Gale Group) is a free, full-text, searchable database of periodical articles (popular and scholarly) dating back to 1998 from more than 350 publications; articles can be printed or e-mailed.
First Nations Periodical Index (Canada's Digital Collections) offers partial coverage of selected periodicals and includes keyword searching
The Greater Victoria Public Library contains a link to the EBSCO Host database of full-text online magazine articles. A valid GVPL library card and password are required to access Magazines Online.
Indexes to Publications of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. The indexes cover the Transactions (bilingual index, 1933-1958), Report (1959-1965), Study Sessions (1966-1983), and the Mémoires (1959-1965) and Sessions d'études (1966-1983) of the association's French Section. Date added: 2002.10.25.
Infotrieve (Los Angeles, CA). User-pay publication-alert and document-delivery service for journal articles and conference papers. MEDLINE databases are also searchable. As of February 1995-2003, bibliographic searches are free.
Ingenta (formerly UnCover) permits free searches or browsing by subject category for articles with an option for user-pay delivery of periodical articles. Date accessed: 2002-04-15. Date added: 2002-04-15.
Internet Library of Early Journals: A Digital Library of 18th and 19th Century Journals (England)
magOmania.com: Canada's Magazine Search Engine (Canadian Magazine Publishers Association). Database to magazine contents published by members of the association. Includes online articles.
MagPortal.com (Hot Neuron LLC). Search for Web-based (online) magazine articles.
Making of America Digital Library (University of Michigan) is fully keyword searchable and features digitized versions of books and journals published between 1800 and 1925 pertaining to the development of North America.
Music Education Resource Base (MERB, CultureNet) complements the Canadian Music Periodical Index
Okanagan History Index (via Living Landscapes and the Okanagan Historical Society)
Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index (University of Washington Libraries)
Photographic Canadiana Index, volumes 1 to 23 (1974-1997); a downloadable zipped file is also available.
Prince George Citizen Newspaper Index (1916-1947) (Prince George Public Library). Note: This Web page will link to a telnet (text-based) Internet connection with the Prince George Public Library catalogue.
Thompson-Nicola Regional District Library System Local Newspaper Indexes. Covers Kamloops Daily News, Merritt Herald, Shuswap Market, Chase Weekly, Ashcroft Journal, and North Thompson Times.