Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907‐1984

As the market for electronic indexes for current literature becomes increasingly saturated, publishers have turned to offering electronic versions of indexes for historical scholarly and popular periodicals, such as Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (HSSIR). This index includes the content of two standard reference indexes Humanities Index and Social Sciences Index (1974‐1984), as well as their predecessors: the Social Sciences & Humanities Index and International Index (1907‐1974).

HSSIR offers citations to over 1.3 million articles with indexing for 1,004 journals (excluding journal name changes). Journals indexed cover all areas of the humanities and social sciences, with some...