The American Humanities Index (AHI) provides the researcher with in-depth coverage in areas of the humanities not covered in other databases. It provides access to more than half a million bibliographic references from more than 1,000 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. Titles indexed include Tennessee Studies in Literature, Studies in American Fiction, Theatre Journal, Steinbeck Quarterly, Alabama Literary Review, Appalachian Journal, and Black Scholar.

Dating back to 1975, AHI includes many smaller journals and publications unavailable in other reference sources. Cover-to-cover indexing of journal content is provided. Citation and selected full-text information is provided for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations. Both basic and advanced search options are available in AHI, with the advanced search allowing the user to limit a search by publication type such as article, painting, photograph, poem, review, or story.

The EBSCOhost search engine allows one to save searches and results in a personal account for use at a later time. It also includes a bibliographic manager download option to let researchers download one or more results to a format compatible with BiblioLink and ProCite. At this time, EBSCOhost does not support the searching of diacritical marks present in fields within AHI. The diacritical search enhancement will be implemented at a future date.

If you would like additional information about American Humanities Index or any of the Libraries' other databases, please direct your questions to   .

Molly Royse, Humanities Coordinator
25 February 2004

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