Databases & Electronic Journals
The following databases are interdiciplinary are useful
for researching African American Studies topics. If your
topic relates to African American art, education, literature,
linguistics, music, religion, philosophy, psychology, public
policy, sociology, or anthropology, use the Database Locator
page to identify subject specific databases.
- Alternative
Press Index galileo
1991 to present
- Provides access to almost 400 alternative, radical and
left publications, which report and analyze the practices
and theories of cultural, economic, political and social
change. API is widely considered to be a leading
guide to the alternative press in North America. Many of
the publications covered in API are not indexed elsewhere.
- America:
History and Life
1964 to present
- The major current indexing service in American history.
Covers journal articles and, since 1974, book reviews and
dissertations.
- Black Studies on Disc
1988 to present and more
- Provides access to the cumulative catalog of the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, and to the Index
to Black Periodicals from 1988 to the present. Available
via Non-Web Databses on the Information Commons machines.
The Index to Black Periodicals is also available
in paper from 1950 to the present (Reference AI3 .O4).
- FRANCIS
1984 to present
- Contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books,
dissertations, and other American and European sources covering
the humanities, social sciences, and economics. FRANCIS
is produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique
et Technique (INIST). Selected records from this database
may be saved in EndNote format and imported directly into
an EndNote library; use the "Endnote Import" option.
- Gay
& Lesbian Abstracts
1997 & earlier to Present
- Indexes gay and lesbian literature including popular and
scholarly material in print and electronic formats. Focus
is the history, culture, interests and concerns of the GLBT
community. Fiction and erotica are excluded as is medical
research associated with HIV/AIDS and related illnessess.
- Historical
Abstracts
1972 to present
- Covers the history of the world, excluding the United
States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. The database
contains abstracts of articles from over 2100 journals in
40 languages, and citations of books and dissertations.
1955 to the present is also available in paper (Z6205 .A534).
- Humanities
Index via GALILEO
1984 to present
- Contains citations to articles and book reviews in approximately
350 general-interest periodicals and periodicals in the
humanities. Subjects covered are theology, religion, performing
arts, literary and political criticism, language and literature,
philosophy, history, folklore, classical studies, and archaeology.
- International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences
1981 to present
- A bibliographic database compiled by the British Library
of Political & Economic Science of the London School
of Economics & Political Science. This database contains
bibliographic information from an international selection
of publications (including over 2600 journals) in the fields
of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
An EndNote
filter is available for this resource.
- JSTOR
Coverage Varies
- The Journal Storage Project, provides access to the full
text of backfiles of key journals in history as well as
other social sciences.
Project
Muse
Coverage Varies
- Provides full-text access to over forty scholarly humanities
and social sciences journals published by the Johns Hopkins
University Press, including Callaloo, an African
and African-American literary journal.
Research
Library via GALILEO
1986 to present
Covers more than 1,600 publications, including academic
journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and the general
sciences. Also included are popular magazines and business
publications. The database provides citations and abstracts
from 1986 to the present. The full text of the articles from
many publications is also available starting in 1991.
- ScienceDirect
Coverage Varies
- Provides electronic full text to recent issues of major
journals in science and medicine, as well as selected social
sciences and humanities titles. You can search by keyword,
author, or title, and you can read or print articles or
citations from any Emory network workstation.
- Social
Sciences Abstracts via GALILEO
1983 to present
- Contains citations to articles and book reviews in approximately
350 general-interest periodicals and periodicals in the
humanities. Subjects covered are theology, religion, performing
arts, literary and political criticism, language and literature,
philosophy, history, folklore, classical studies, and archaeology.
- Web of
Science
1987 to present
- A collection of multidisciplinary citation databases,
including Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation
Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. These are
indexed so that you can search for specific articles by
subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because
the information stored about each article includes the article's
cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you
can also search the databases for articles that cite a known
author or work.
Newspaper
Articles
To find newspapers at Emory, browse EUCLID
by periodical title, or consult the Emory Newspaper
List located on Level 2 near the Reference Desk.
The list includes newspapers on microform or in Special Collections.
A list of African American newspapers is also included.
Newspaper Indexes
The New York Times, 1851 to present (Reference
AI21 .N44)
Index to Black Newspapers, 1977 to present (Reference
AI3 .I443)
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986 (Reference
Z1361 .N39 K34)
Newspaper Sources on the Web
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
Coverage Varies
- A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and
journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, published
in English and Spanish. A rich collection of articles, editorials,
columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives
and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. Free text
searching and complete indexing makes Ethnic NewsWatch
easy to search.
Historical
Newspapers Online covers three major historical resources:
- Palmer's Index to The Times, which covers the period
from 1790 to 1905 in The Times
- Official Index to The Times, which takes the coverage
forward from 1906 to 1980
- Historical Index to The New York Times, which covers
The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922.
LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe
Coverage Varies
Provides full-text access to over 13,000 news, business and
legal sources. The sources include international, national
and regional newspapers; magazines; trade journals; newsletters;
wire service reports; transcripts of television and radio
news programs; law reviews; company reports and much more.
While the database provides full-text access to the sources,
it searches for key words and phrases in only the headlines
and lead paragraphs.
- National
Newspapers indexes and abstracts 33 national and regional
newspapers including the some African American publications.
Catalogs
Archival
Resources meshes access to the Research Libraries
Group union catalog for archival collections with online archival
collection guides or finding aids to provide
a single point of entry to worldwide archival holdings. Selected
records from this database may be saved in EndNote format
and imported directly into an EndNote library; use the "Endnote
Import" option.
ArchivesUSA
includes an updated version of the Directory of Archives
and Manuscript Repositories in the U.S.; all records cited
in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
through 1995; and full descriptions and indexing of over 42,000
manuscript collections which have been published in the National
Inventory of Documentary Sources.
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