Databases for African and Afro-American Studies
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Key Databases
- African American Experience
- Comprehensive database of primary and secondary source material on the history and culture of African-Americans. Includes some audio content.
- America: History and Life
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, 1964 to present
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- Indexes and provides full text of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the American ethnic press, 1960 to present
- Historical Abstracts
- Indexes journals, books, and dissertations on European and world history, excluding the United States and Canada, 1955 to present
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
Additional Databases
- Accessible Archives
- A collection of primary newspaper records, including collections entitled "African American Newspapers: The 19th Century" and "The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective", as well as individual titles such as "Godey's Ladys Book 1830-1885," "The Liberator 1831-1840", and "The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800"
- American National Biography
- Full-text from 1999 edition, including nearly 17,500 biographies of men and women whose lives have shaped the American nation, with essays, bibliographies, illustrations and web links; subjects must have died prior to 1996
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, including African Studies and African American Studies collections, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- Literature Resource Center
- Full-text of biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline, includes text of Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism
- MLA Bibliography
- Indexes journals, monographs, working papers and proceedings in literature, language, linguistics and folklore, 1963 to present
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- PolicyFile
- Indexes and abstracts, with some links to full-text, public policy research and publications from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers, 1990 to present
- SocINDEX
- Indexes and abstracts journal articles in sociology and includes the full text for a select number of titles, 1895 to present
- Women's Studies International
- Indexes journal literature, books, and mixed media from 10 women's studies databases, 1972 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Indexes articles, with some full text links, to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers, 1980 to present
- LexisNexis Academic (Help guide)
- Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information. Includes only a handful of titles relevant for African studies research, most notably Africa Energy & Mining ; Business Africa ; Business Day (South Africa) ; Financial Mail (South Africa) ; and, The Indian Ocean Newsletter
- LexisNexis Statistical
- Accesses statistics from federal, state, private and international sources with some links to full text
- Academic Search Premier
- Provides full text and indexing of thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication
- WorldCat
- Books and other materials held in most academic, research and large public libraries worldwide
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