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Databases: Black Studies

 

Alphabetical:

  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals, including Black Studies
    • coverage from 1985+
    • mostly full-text

  • America: History and Life
    • the professional index for US and Canadian history
    • historical coverage of the US and Canada from prehistory to the present
    • indexes 2,000+ scholarly journals
    • abstracts; some links to full-text
    • coverage from 1954+

  • Black Drama - 1850 to the Present
    • full-text of 1,200 plays written by more than 100 from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries
    • each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching
    • plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images
    • collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works

  • Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
    • monographs, essays, articles, letters, speeches and interviews written by leaders within the black community
    • intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art
    • fully searchable
    • full-text

  • Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
    • definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and any other American subject imaginable.
    • primary sources
    • full-text
    • coverage from 1639-1800

  • JSTOR
    • 440+ scholarly journals, including gender studies
    • complete run of all journals except for the most recent 3-5 years
    • full-text

  • Primary Sources in African American History
    • provides access to selected primary sources, including autobiographies, speeches, legislation, and Supreme Court decisions
    • provides access to selected secondary sources, including reference books and scholarly articles
    • coverage from colonial times to 1990s
    • full-text

  • Primary Sources in American Women's History
    • provides access to selected primary sources, including autobiographies of prominent activits and respresentative women, manuscripts on political and social change, legislation, and Supreme Court decisions
    • provides access to selected secondary sources, including reference books and scholarly articles
    • coverage from colonial times to 1990s
    • full-text

  • Project MUSE
    • 250+ scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities
    • coverage from 1983+
    • mostly full-text

  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals, including Black Studies
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
Additional:

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    • indexes all doctoral dissertations in the U.S., including Black Studies
    • coverage from 1861+
    • abstracts
    • order from Interlibrary Loan

  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by OCLC libraries worldwide
    • over 400 languages represented

 

 

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