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African American Biographical Database
Contains narratives from biographical sources published between 1790 and 1950. Covers African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. (Chadwyck-Healey)
African American
Newspapers: the 19th Century
Complete text of several major African American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. It complements and challenges the coverage of the mainstream media and serves a broad spectrum of subject areas. (ProQuest)
America: History & Life covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. Citations and links to book and media reviews are also included. (EBSCOhost)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles from over 1200 journals. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)
"Contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations." (H.W. Wilson)
"Hard to find" and previously unpublished plays by Black authors from North America, the Caribbean, and Africa, related reference materials, and records of notable performances. (Alexander Street Press)
Black Index: Afro-Americana in selected periodicals, 1907-1949
EKSTROM LIBRARY Ref. Z1361 .N39 N58
A one volume subject and author index guide covering over 1,000 articles in more than 350 periodicals between the years 1907and 1949.
Black Literature Index
Indexes fiction, poetry and literary reviews appearing in
black owned and edited American newspapers between 1827 and
1940. (Companion to newspaper microfiche collection which is also
available). (CD-ROM available at the Ekstrom Library Media and Current
Periodicals Dept.)
Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
The Encyclopedia Americana includes 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,500 specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all academic fields and curriculum topics.
Full-text database providing access to articles that appeared in 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. 400,000+ complete articles dating back to 1990.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Contains more than 40,000 articles on all aspects of art and culture, including information on people and places, surveys of art in all countries, maps, diagrams and links to images on the Internet.
Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Indexes articles and other materials covering information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. (HAPI)
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. (EBSCOhost)
Includes: Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790-1905; The Official Index to the Times (London) 1906-1980; and, The Historical Index to the New York Times 1851-1923. (Chadwyck-Healey)
An index of articles in the humanities. (H.W. Wilson)
In Black and White: A guide to magazine articles, newspaper articles, and books concerning morethan 15,000 Black individuals and groups
EKSTROM LIBRARY Ref. E185.96 .S67 1980
As the title suggests this two volume index set edited by Mary Mace Spradling presents biographical reference information on over 15,000 persons and organizations relevant to African-American studies.
International Index to Black Periodicals
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986: From the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture of the New York City Library
EKSTROM LIBRARY Ref. E185 .K34 1992
An extremely valuable 5 volume index set based on the exceptional collected works of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It consists of Over 170,000 citations to periodicals, books, and special reports concerned with African-American history and culture.
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
New Grove
Dictionary of Music & Musicians
The premier music encyclopedia covering all aspects of music knowledge in over 29,000 articles. Includes full-text searching.
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey)
Indexes articles from over 300 essential political science journals. (CSA)
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.
Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)
Indexing to journal articles in over 1,100 key scientific, technical, medical and social science journals published by Elsevier. Full-text access to articles in journals to which U of L subscribes to the print version.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch)