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Best Starting Points
- ProQuest Black Studies This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest’s comprehensive, award-winning Black Studies content available in a single location for deeper, more meaningful research, teaching, and learning. Developed in collaboration with faculty, scholars and librarians, this database combines multi-format primary and secondary sources, like historical Black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, videos, scholarly journals, essays and more. - Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive collection of scholarship that focuses on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Contains scholarly articles, reference works, primary sources, timelines, biographies, images, maps, charts and tables, and film clips, among many other things. - Umbra Search This link opens in a new window
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Portal to digital African American history and culture collections online. - Africa Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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An indexing database that contains citations to books and journal articles published since 1984. They are searchable by keyword, subject, geographic area, country, and other bibliographic information.
Indexes and bibliographies in Africana Studies
Indexes and bibliographies are books or collections of books that list every work about a subject in that year. Use indexes to get started on your research, gather keywords and subjects for your searching, and to begin building a bibliography. Throughout your research, return to these works to clarify facts, concepts, or gather additional information as your research develops.
- ProQuest Black Studies Periodicals (International Index to Black Periodicals) This link opens in a new window
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Explore cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues in African and African-American Studies. Covers 1998 - current. - Africana Periodical Literature Database This link opens in a new window
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An English language database that indexes articles from journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. - Africa Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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An indexing database that contains citations to books and journal articles published since 1984. They are searchable by keyword, subject, geographic area, country, and other bibliographic information.
- Africa Journals Online
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Searchable tables of contents to select recent African journals in science & technology, social sciences, and the humanities.
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
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Includes the African American Communities Collection, which focuses on African Americans' local efforts to overcome discrimination and second-class citizenship, encompassing a diverse array of local primary sources.
- Current bibliography on African affairs
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Publication Date: 1999-presentRapid, impartial and comprehensive coverage of published and forthcoming materials on African Affairs and gathered from world wide sources, A Current Bibliography on African Affairs (CBA) is compiled as a quarterly guide for study and research in the field of African Studies and related subjects.
General databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines from across the disciplines and from popular culture. Much of the content is available in full text. An ELM Database. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Use Google's special academic search to locate scholarly articles from across disciplines. On campus, the preferences are set to indicate the Library's full-text access to what you find (links on the right). Use the "cited by" link to see who has cited a particular work you're interested in. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Searches through citations, subject headings, and some abstracts
The premier database for linguistics and literary studies, this index includes articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and more. Covers 1926 - current. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Search through the full text of key books and journals from across the disciplines, with emphasis on recent scholarship.
Disciplinary databases
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
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Contains information about scholarly articles on the history and culture of the U. S. and Canada. (For World History, use Historical Abstracts) - CQ Political Handbook of the World This link opens in a new window
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Provides brief country and political system information from standard sources such as Freedom House, Pippa Norris’ “democracy type” adapted from Freedom House rankings, and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). Also includes maps. Note: You can also search across all of the CQ Press reference resources here. - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present. - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current. - Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Articles in this collection offer comprehensive summaries of the state of research on topics from many disciplines in the sciences and social sciences, including Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science. Covers 1997 - current.
