DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.

REF DT14 .A37435 2005

African American Political Leaders.

Reference E185.96 .C18 2004

African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia. 

REF U52 .S88 2004 2 vols.

Black Women in America.

REF E185.86 .B542 2005 3 vols.

Blacks in Film and Television: An Encyclopedia. 

REF PN1995.9 .N4 B58 1988

Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History. 

Ref E 185. E54 2006. 6 vols.

Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895.

REF E185 .E545 2006 3 vols.

Encyclopedia of African American Religions.

REF BF 563 .N4 E53 1993

Encyclopedia of African American Society.

REF E 185 E 546 2005 2 vols.

Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration.

REF E185.6 .E54 2006 3 vols.

Harvard Guide to African American History.

REF E 185 .H326 2001

Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement.

REF E185.61 .L84 1997

ATLASES & CHRONOLOGIES

African American Atlas: Black History and Culture: An Illustrated Reference.

REF ATLAS E185 .A79 1998

Black Saga : The African American Experience.

REF E185 .C519 1995

Chronology of African American History: From 1492 to the Present. 

REF E 185.H64 1997.

Timelines of African-American History : 500 Years of Black Achievement.

REF E185 .C875 1994

The Timetables of African-American History : A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History.

REF E185 .H295 1995

Pan-African Chronology : A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

REF E185.18 .J46 1996 3 vols.

The Atlas of African-American History and Politics : From the Slave Trade to Modern Times.

REF E185 .S574 1998

ACCESS TO EUCLID & OTHER UNIVERSITY CATALOGS

CRL CATALOG (Center for Research Libraries) : A collection of over 600,000 searchable titles from a consortium of North American universities, research institutions, and colleges.  

GPO MONTHLY CATALOG: An index to print and electronic U.S. government documents published by the U.S. Government Printing Office on a wide range of subjects from federal agencies.  Dates 1976 to present.

EUCLID:    Use to locate current holding information about library materials in Emory libraries, this includes books, journals, videos, government documents, microfilm collections and other materials.

WORLDCAT: A worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions includes 52 million records. Contains citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, and videotapes.

SEARCHING EUCLID

LOCATE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Academic Search Complete: Scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed, indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications. Coverage: Varies.

African American Biographical Database: AABD includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans. The majority of the content comes from Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.   Coverage: 1750-1950.

America History & Life: A bibliographic database containing citations to articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Coverage: 1964- present.

Anthropology Plus: Brings together into one resource Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index. Indexes journals, books, and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Coverage is international, with emphasis on material published in English and other European languages. Coverage: Late 19th Century to present

Arts & Humanities Index: Indexes the leading arts and humanities journals. Providing cover of over 1,300 articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters and reviews. Dates: 1980 – present.

ATLA Religion Database: Indexes journals, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews in the areas of religion and theology. Coverage: 1949 - present

Biography Resource Center: A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Black Studies Center: Unique database combining the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), International Index to Black Periodicals, Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Black Literature Index 1827-1940. This database includes full text historical backfiles to the Chicago Defender, video clips, photographs and scholarly articles. 

Dissertation Abstracts: Covers dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers master's theses, Canadian dissertations, British, and other international dissertations. Abstracts are included for dissertations beginning July 1980 and for master's theses beginning spring 1988. For dissertations done in 1997 and later, PDF's of some titles are available. For dissertations and theses completed prior to those dates, references are given to the print edition of Dissertation Abstracts, American Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Abstracts. Abstracts may be consulted in those publications. Coverage: 1861-present

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center): This database is a national information system designed to provide access to education literature.  Established in 1966 by the U.S. Department Education, Institute of Education Sciences and the National Library of Education.  Contains more than 1,000,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practices. Coverage: 1966-present.

Historical Abstracts: A bibliographic database containing citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts currently indexes over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Coverage: 1450- present.

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text: Covers cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline. Full-text coverage of over 40 core Black Studies periodical. Coverage: Varies

International Music Periodicals: Indexes current international music periodicals and retrospective citations from periodicals dating back as far as 1874. Coverage: 1874-present.

JSTOR: Full-text searchable database of articles from an archival collection of journals in a wide range of subject areas taken from the titles, abstracts and/or full-text. Searches may be limited to a specific subject category of journals. Coverage: Varies

**Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986: Created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; lists more than 170,000 citations drawn from over 150 significant and influential journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the African American experience and the African Diaspora. Dates: 1948-1986. REF Z1361 .N39 K34 5 vols.

MLA International Bibliography: International coverage of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore indexed from over 4,000 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Dates: 1963-present.

Periodicals Index: Indexes complete runs of journals, some right back to 1770. Its coverage is broad: every area of the humanities and social sciences with an international scope. Coverage: 1665-1996 (Varies)

PsycInfo: Indexes international literature in psychology, the behavioral sciences, and related disciplines from over 1,400 professional journals, book chapters, books, reports, and dissertations. Dates: 1806- present.

Reader’s Guide Retrospective : A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Coverage: 1890 - 1982

Sociological Abstracts:  Primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. This database indexes information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serial publications, books and dissertations. Coverage: 1952 - present.

 Women Studies International: Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. Coverage: 1972 - present.

 Worldwide Political Science Abstracts:  Indexes international serial literature in political science and its complementary fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Replaces ABC Pol Sci. Also includes the backfiles from Political Science Abstracts. Coverage: 1975 - present.

STATISTICAL SOURCES

Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860: A Sourcebook.
REF E185.18 .C73 1997

Black Americans : A Statistical Sourcebook.
REF E185.5 .B512 2003

Historical Statistics of Black America.
REF  E185 .H543 1995  2 vols.

Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Time to the Present.

REF HA202 .H57 2006 5 vols.

State of Black America.

REF  E185.5 .N317 2006

Statistical Record of Black America.
Reference Desk E185.5 .S83

Minority Resource Data Center

United States Census Bureau

• African American History Month 50 Years of Change
• Current Population Survey Reports
• Facts on the Black or African American Population
• Residential Segregation of Blacks or African Americans 1980-2000

 Many of Woodruff Library's newspapers are available on microfilm (Level 1). To locate newspapers by geographic area, title, or time period, use Woodruff Library's African American Newspapers List or the Woodruff Library Newspaper List.  To view a listing of journals for African American Studies please view African American Studies Journals List.

Indexes & Bibliographies

African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. 

REF Z 6944 .N39 A37 1998. 

Antebellum Black Newspapers: Indices to New York Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), The Rights of All (1829), The Weekly Advocate (1837), and the Colored American (1837-1841).

REF E 185.5 .J33 1977

Bibliographic Checklist of African-American Newspapers.

REF Z 6944 .N39 H46 1995

Black Newspapers Index.

REF AI3 .I443, 1977- present

Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986.

REF Z1361 .N39 K34

NEWSPAPER DATABASES

Accessible Archives:  Includes the full text of the following 19th century African American newspapers: Freedom's Journal, Coloured American, North Star, National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and the Christian Recorder.

Early American Newspapers Digital
Currently provides full text access to six early American newspapers. When complete, this database will cover hundreds of newspapers from 1690 to 1820. Dates: 1750-1839.

Ethnic NewsWatch
A full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, published in English and Spanish.  Dates: 1990-present.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides searchable access to the full text of national and regional newspapers, including recent years of the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor; wire services; broadcast transcripts; and international news.

Historical Newspapers

New York Times Historical (1851-1999)
Wall Street Journal Historical (1889-1995)
Washington Post Historical (1877-1988)
Christian Science Monitor Historical (1908-1991)

LOCATE REPOSITORIES & COLLECTIONS

Primary sources are the firsthand accounts by participants and observers in the events or time periods being investigated. Primary sources include diaries, letters, family records, statistics, speeches, interviews, autobiographies, film, government documents, or research studies published in scholarly journals. You can find many primary source materials via EUCLID. See the "Finding Primary Sources via EUCLID" section of this guide for tips on how to restrict a EUCLID search to find primary sources.

The Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library (MARBL) (marbl@emory.edu, 727-6887) of the Woodruff Library is open to all researchers, including Emory undergraduates. Special Collections houses many primary source materials, including rare books, manuscript collections (correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, photographs, audiovisual and electronic materials, etc.), and organizational records (meeting minutes, financial records, ledger, etc.), as well as other unpublished and published materials. Subject guides listing Special Collections materials are available for African American History and Culture, Civil Rights, African American Literature, and other selected subject areas.

The following databases will help you identify material in other archival and manuscript repositories:

• WorldCat
  Advanced searches in WorldCat may be limited to archival materials.
• RLIN Bibliographic File
  Search results in RLIN may be limited by material type of archival and mixed collections.
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
  Online access to manuscript collections throughout the country registered in the National Union Catalog of Manuscripts from the mid 1980s to the present.
• Archives USA
  Includes all the earlier entries from the printed volumes of the National Union Catalog of Manuscripts. Regularly updated.

To link directly to web sites of other manuscript and archives repositories, use Georgia Archival Repositories or Repositories of Primary Sources (nationwide).

SEARCHING EUCLID FOR PRIMARY RESOURCES

• Look for works by individuals, associations, or other groups directly involved with the topic you are researching by searching for their names as authors.
• Look for works about an event published at the time of the event by limiting a Complex search to the pubyears surrounding the event.
• Complex searches may be limited by location to SPECIALCOL to retrieve records for manuscript collections, rare books, and other materials housed in Manuscript, Archives & Rare Books Library.
• Complex searches may also be limited by location to MICROFORMS to retrieve records for microform collections, which often contain valuable primary source materials.
• Consider the following subheadings, used with your subject, to identify useful  primary source material:  autobiographies, autobiography, campaign speeches, correspondence, diaries, interviews, personal narratives, public opinion, speeches, and addresses.

TIPS FOR SEARCHING THE INTERNET

• Web sites can be valuable sources of information. Keep in mind the importance of carefully evaluating information you find on the web. In addition to using Google and other search engines, use resources developed by librarians, such as Librarians' Index to the Internet or the Scout Report. It is also possible to find web sites in EUCLID. Some may be found by a keyword search for "history web resource" or "African American web resource."
  
• An excellent guide to African American resources, Guide to the Web from the Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History.
  
• Woodruff Library's Internet Critical Evaluation guide provides tips on evaluating information on the web and on locating good web sites.
  
• Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources includes tips on citing web sites using MLA, APA, or Chicago styles.

For additional sites to search, consult The African American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History written by Abdul Alkalimat.  This title is located on level 2 in the reference collection with the following call number: E 185 .M33 2004.

CITATION GUIDES

Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS)
Call Number: REF DESK Z253 .U69 2003

MLA handbook for Writers of Research Papers (MLA)
Call Number:  REF DESK LB2369 .G53 2003

Manual for Writers of Term papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Turabian)
Call Number: REF DESK LB2369 .T8 1996

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 
Call Number:  REF DESK BF76.7 .P83 2001

Columbia Guide to Online Style
Call Number: Electronic Access

 EndNote is a software program that makes it possible to organize references in a database, which can be used to format citations and create bibliographies. EndNote is available at the Software Distribution Center in Cox Hall. There are versions for Windows and Macintosh machines. See EndNote: Introduction and Reference for basic information on use of EndNote and availability of workshops at Emory.

For questions regarding this guide please contact: Carmelita Pickett, African American Studies Librarian, cnpicke@emory.edu