Africana /African American Studies Subject Guide

Article Databases

 

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allAfrica.com restricted

This African news site posts over 800 stories daily in English and French and offers multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in the archive, including the Africa News Service from 1997.

America: History and Life restricted

Indexes and abstracts 2,100 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations about the history and culture of the US and Canada. Searches are by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage from 1964 to the present and is updated monthly.  This subscription is limited to six simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.

Ethnic NewsWatch restricted

Index and full-text to over 250 ethnic newspapers, magazines and journals in both English and Spanish. Major area of focus is ethnic area studies, but also covers arts, business, education, environment, history, journalism, political science, and sociology. Coverage from 1985.

Historical Abstracts restricted

Indexes and abstracts over 2,100 journals, books, and dissertations in world history, excluding the US and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Searches by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage: 1955 to present. Updated monthly.
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Index to Black Periodicals

AI3 .O4 (Ref)
This annual index has had other titles (including Index to Periodical Articles by and About Negroes), and it indexes articles from approximately 35 African American scholarly and popular journals. All information is indexed in a single alphabet, including authors, subjects, personal names, and cross-references. There is a list of the journals indexed in the front of each volume.

ProQuest Research Library restricted

Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.

Sociological Abstracts restricted

Indexes an international selection of publications in sociology and related disciplines from over 1,800 journals, serials, books, conference papers, and dissertations. Indexing and abstracting from 1952, and cited references with links from 2001. Updated monthly.

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Last updated: January 2009