Databases for Africana Studies
Best Bets
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| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations. |
1955-present |
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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| Political Science Complete |
This database contains full text articles from over 500 scholarly journals and and indexing and abstracts from 2,900 journal titles. |
1989-present |
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| MLA International Bibliography |
MLA covers folklore, languages, linguistics, and literature. Provides over one million citations for items from more than 4,400 journals and series published worldwide. |
1926-present |
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Also Useful
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| African American Newspapers |
Primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history; ethnic studies and more. |
1827-1998 |
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| African Newspapers |
Provides more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
1800-1922 |
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| Americas Historical Newspapers |
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. |
1690-1922 |
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| Anthropology Plus |
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. |
19th century-present |
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| Art Full Text |
Art Abstracts indexes over 400 English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Includes nearly 120 titles in full text. |
1984-present |
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| ARTstor Digital Library |
The collection currently contains over one million images, including the following collections: |
Prehistory to the present |
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| PAIS International |
Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. |
1972-present |
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Offers full-text and full-image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British Newspapers (The Guardian and The Observer) |
1764-2005 |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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Even More
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| African American Poetry 1750-1900 |
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
1750-1900 |
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| African American Song |
16,000 audio tracks of historical recordings from a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. |
20th Century |
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| Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996 |
FBIS Daily reports include English-language, full-text broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, China, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, the |
1941-1996 |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| Smithsonian Global Sound |
The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2013) includes 2,949 albums, equalling 42,405 tracks. |
20th century |
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