C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is a growing all-inclusive bibliographic spine for 19th-century research. C19 is a one-stop finding tool covering multiple content types, providing records for millions of documents ranging from books and newspapers to  government documents and periodicals at the article level.

C19 consists of over16 million  records from the following sources:

Books:

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue: 1.3 million records, including a new fourth series of 25,000 records from British Library acquisitions made or catalogued since the original NSTC was compiled. ProQuest acquired the NSTC in May 2005 and relaunched it as a Chadwyck-Healey product in November 2005. Previously available as a multi-volume print series or on two CD-ROMs, this is the only web based version of this resource.

The Nineteenth Century: 29,000 records from Chadwyck-Healey’s ongoing microform project at the British Library, The Nineteenth Century. Records include microfiche numbers.

Periodicals:

Over 11 million articles are available in C19 from a range of sources, including:

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature:  Over 450,000 articles indexed by subject.  The C19 edition of this famous index has been faithfully reproduced so users can search subject entries alongside other periodical indexes or browse all entries alphabetically.     

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900): Over 90,000 article records and 11,000 contributor records from 43 important British periodicals indexed by scholars with author attributions for articles that were originally published anonymously or pseudonymously. This is the first web-based version of this famous, scholarly index which was only available on CD-ROM.

Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online (1790-1919):  Over 3.7 million articles from the over 900 scholarly journals in these two collections, including records from the new British Periodicals full text collection -- Early British Periodicals.

American Periodicals Series (1791-1919):  Over 7.3 million articles from over 1,100 American magazines, newspapers, and journals from APS.

Government Documents:

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900): 98,000 records from the  Subject Catalogue to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from 1801 - 1919.

Newspapers:

Palmer’s Index to the Times (1790–1905): 3.7 million articles from Palmer’s Index to the Times of London.

Archives:

Discover almost 62,000 collections from archives across the United States.

Seamless linking to full text is provided to customers of the full text collections that are indexed in C19 plus 70 JSTOR journals, providing a one-stop search across print, microform and electronic materials.