Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers with a rich digital archive of leading international journals in the humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content. Journals are provided from volume 1, issue 1, with titles selected by an expert editorial team.

Journals are considered for inclusion if the back-file is predominantly unavailable through other online sources. For libraries, Periodicals Archive Online can save up significant shelving space and provide permanent access to a vast information repository. For students and scholars, this resource can be used to survey comprehensively the history of scholarship in a particular field. Users can pinpoint articles via precision search, or browse individual issues as if consulting the originals; each issue is digitised from cover to cover.

Jisc Collections Selections

Jisc Collections purchased this second collection of 50 titles from ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) - adding to the existing collection of 80 titles purchased for the community as part of the Jisc ProQuest Archives Collection. Titles have been hand-picked from the Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) collections from ProQuest to complement other electronic archives.

A full list of titles is available under Agreement Information.

Publisher selection policy

The basic criteria for inclusion is that journals are scholarly in nature or of significant interest to scholars, that they have a significant backfile component prior to 1995, that they fit within one or more of the database's 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and that they complement other archives that Jisc members have access to.