PAO - Periodicals Archive Online

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Description: PAO - Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. 
PAO offers unprecedented access to international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995 in thirty-seven key subject areas. The database combines six separate collections that offer a total of 500 full-run titles spanning 200 years, and provides over 1.7 million articles and more than ten million pages of text (the printed contents of these six collections would take up over a mile of shelf space). 
PAO covers the humanities and social sciences in 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 60 foreign-language titles, of value to both customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Around 20% of each collection is non-English language content. PAO collections are complementary to JSTOR collections.
Subject Coverage: Multidisciplinary.
Date Coverage: range between 1802 - 1995 (varies by title provided)
Database Type: Full-text.

 

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