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America:
History and Life
An index of journal articles, books reviews, and dissertations
on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from earliest times
to the present.
Contemporary
Women's Issues
A full-text database providing global information on
women covering 1992 to the present.
ERIC
An index to journal articles, books, theses, curricula,
conference papers, standards and guidelines.
Especially useful for educational impact in the area
of African-American studies.
Please note: Beginning in January 2004, the
U.S. Department of Education is implementing a reengineering plan for the ERIC
database. See: Educational
Resources Information Center. Consequently, it is projected that no new
records will be entered in ERIC until September 2004. For current journal articles
in education, use another database, such as Education
Full Text.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
An index to bibliographic references, abstracts, or
full-text articles from more than 600 scholarly journals and popular magazines
from 1980 to the present.
Greenwood
Daily Life Online
Looks at the everyday lives of people throughout history
(antiquity to present) from the material, religious, domestic, political, recreational,
intellectual, and economic viewpoints. Based on numerous primary and secondary
resources, the database includes historical overviews, maps, illustrations,
chronologies, and sidebars. Organized by time period, region, and topic.
HarpWeek:
The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877)
Provides full-text access to 21 years of Harper's Weekly,
a leading 19th-century illustrated newspaper.
Researchers can search the full text, browse the individual
issues, or use the thesaurus-based index. They can also browse through the categories
of Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society, and Topic Headings.
Historical Abstracts 1955 to the present
Covers all aspects of history (excluding the United
States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Humanities
Abstracts
Indexes a broad range of some 500 magazines and journal
publications in the humanities.
Covers topics in archaeology and classical studies,
folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion,
and related subjects.
Coverage extends from 1983 to the present. Continues
print Humanities Index, 1975-1996 (REFB AI 3
.H85) and Social Sciences and Humanities Index,
1965-1974 (REFB AI 3 .R282).
Humanities
& Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals in the social sciences
and humanities, providing citations to more than 1,300,000 articles. Covers
topics in archaeology and classical studies, anthropology, folklore, history,
gender studies, language and literature, economics, drama, political science,
philosophy, international relations, music, sociology, journalism, psychology,
religion, geography, and many other related subjects.
Coverage extends from 1907 through 1984.
Periodicals
Index Online (formerly PCI)
An index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities
and social sciences from 1770-1991.
Project
Muse
An index to full-text articles from scholarly journals
in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Social
Sciences Abstracts
Interdisciplinary database covering more than 400 English-language
social science journals.
Covers topics in anthropology, criminal justice, economics,
sociology, psychology, political science, gender studies, political science,
and more.
Coverage from 1971 to present. Continues print
Social Sciences and Humanities Index, 1965-1974
(REFB AI 3 .R282).
Citations and some abstracts, no full-text.
Sociological
Abstracts
An index to more than 2,600 journals in anthropology,
sociology, demography, and other social sciences covering 1963 to the present.
Continues print Sociological Abstracts, 1954-1963
(REFB HM 1 .S67).
The Black Collegian
Online
A national career opportunities magazine containing
career planning/job search information as well as commentary by leading African-American
writers, lifestyle/entertainment features, general information on college life
and news of what's happening on college campuses today.
Callaloo
From Project Muse, a journal of African and African-American
arts and literature containing original works by and critical studies of black
writers worldwide.
Quarterly Black Review
of Books
A review of current fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and
children's books including interviews, bestseller lists, and information for
writers.
Africana.com
Contains feature stories, book and movie reviews, news,
and more.
African-American
Internet Links
A comprehensive site of listservs, gophers, websites,
and newsgroups.
African-American
Poetry, 1760-1900
A collection of over 2,500 full-text poems based on
Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975.
African Americana
An extensive site including bibliographies, library
catalog links, discussion and newsgroup listings, exhibits, periodicals, documents,
and links to other websites.
American
Slave Narratives - An Online Anthology
An anthology of slave narratives taken from the mid-1930's
as part of the WPA program.
Links to bibliographies and to additional Internet
sources of slave narratives.
The Frederick
Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist
who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken
antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
HarpWeek:
The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877)
Provides full-text access to 21 years of Harper's Weekly,
a leading 19th-century illustrated newspaper.
Researchers can search the full text, browse the individual
issues, or use the thesaurus-based index. They can also browse through the categories
of Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society, and Topic Headings.
Information Resources on African American Studies
Javanoir: a Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
The Martin Luther
King, Jr. Papers Project
A site that includes bibliographies, articles, papers,
etc. on Dr. King.
A Roadmap to African-American and Diversity Resources
Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture
A site of the New York Public Library providing a vast
collection of resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent
throughout the world.
The Universal Black Pages
A site with links to hundreds of sources arranged in
topical areas such as art, business, entertainment events, history, music, and
many more.
AFRO-America@: The Afro-American
Newspapers Homepage
Provides listings of current news stories on African
Americans divided into categories and links to other sites of African American
interest.
Atlanta Tribune Online
Online version of a leading minority newspaper in the
Southeast.
Includes features, columns, travel, business and more.
African-American
Poetry, 1760-1900
A collection of over 2,500 full-text poems based on
Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975.
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
An index to biographical sketches and articles covering
living and deceased persons throughout the world.
Contemporary Authors - absorbed into Literature
Resource Center 12/04
A biographical guide covering more than 100,000 current
writers.
The following sources are located in the Reference Collection:
The African American Almanac REFB/E/185/.A253/1993
African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook REFB/PS/366/.A35/A36/2002.
The African American Encyclopedia REFB/E/185/.E54/1996
African American Literature REFB/PS/153/.N5/G73/2005
African American Writers REFB/PS/153/.N5/B214/2004
Atlas of African-American History REFB/E/185/.C55/2001
Bibliography of African American Leadership: An Annotated Guide REFB/E/185.61/.W285/2000
Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People
from 1619 to the
Present REFB/E/185/H64/1991
Contemporary Black Biography REFB/E/185.96/.C66
The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History REFB/E/185/.E54/2006
The Encyclopedia of African-American Politics REFB/E/185/.S58155/2003
The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America REFB/E/185.61/E544/1998
Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society REFB/E/185.93/.V8/V58/2002
Multicultural Resources on the Internet REFB/E/184/.A1/G874/1999
The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference REFB/E/185/.N49/1999
Notable Black American Men REFB/E/185.86/.N68/1999
Notable Black American Women REFB/E/185.96/.N68/1992
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