An online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles, Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full Text^™) offers unprecedented access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995.

Periodicals Archive Online, with over 1.9 million articles and over 12.9 million pages of text, offers institutions a virtual library and a permanent archive of retrospective journals for the humanities and social sciences. Some 20 percent of the journals are in non-English languages, mirroring the broad international scope of Periodicals Archive Online. A new platform and new, fast search engine provide powerful and easy searching across the vast content.

Enhanced functionality includes free MARC records, Z39.50 support for federated searching, OpenURL compliancy, citation software support, and COUNTER-compliant usage statistics. A Quick Search is now featured on the Home page and on every page of the service for convenient searching for any level of user.  Sophisticated post-search results filtering and sorting enhance the user’s ability to quickly get to the right results.  Links to JSTOR and Project Muse are also available.  The My Archive feature allows every user to save searches, save records, and take notes between sessions, allowing each user to create his or her own research area.

Five individual collections of multidisciplinary, full-text journals are offered.  Unique foreign language coverage is available in each collection.  A new Spanish language package of important titles is also available separately. Searchable full-text is featured in collections 3-5, with this enhancement coming for collections 1 and 2 over the next two years.  In the searchable text collections, hit term highlighting is available, making it very easy to find your keyword search terms across large numbers of pages.

Periodicals Archive Online expands research opportunities and is available remotely at any time.  It also serves as a permanent archive, with access to the full contents of every title, from cover to cover, thus allowing an institution to safely send fragile and space-consuming journal runs to storage facilities.

Use Periodicals Index Online combined with Periodicals Archive Online to quickly identify and assess full-image articles. Search the index fields by author, title, publication, date, and other operators, then view, print, or download,  citations or page images.