Primary Africana Studies Databases & Article Indexes

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Also Known as: IIBP
IIBP Full Text 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...   [more]
Holdings: Time period varies depending on journal title

Primary Africana Studies Databases & Article Indexes

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
Supplemental URLs
    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)
    JSTOR on Mobile devices

Important Africana Studies Databases & Article Indexes

ABI/Inform - Proquest
Provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, marketing, and product development, including complete runs of key business and mana...   [more]

Abstracts in Social Gerontology
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Academic Video Online
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Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers five separate web-based resources, four of which are collections of historic American Newspapers and one of which is a genealogical source. ...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Search interface

African American Collection in Ancestry
Includes: African American Photo Collection, 1850-2000 California, African American Who's Who, 1948 Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina Black Deaths 1871-89 Illinois Servitude and Eman...   [more]

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Offers access to information about the cultural life and history in the 1800s, including first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, Also contains early biographies, vital statistic...   [more]
Holdings: Parts 1 - 12
Supplemental URLs
    about the database

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

America: History and Life
Also Known as: America History and Life
History of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present....   [more]
Holdings: 1964 to present. Updated three times a year.

American History in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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American Slavery Debate: In the Context of Atlantic History
Access to 320+ downloadable documents that illustrate the myriad of international influences that affected American attitudes toward slavery and antislavery between the American Revolution and the Civ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Antislavery in New England (UMass Archive)
The Antislavery Collection contains several hundred printed pamphlets and books pertaining to slavery and antislavery in New England, 1725-1911. The holdings include speeches, sermons, proceedings and...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

ATLA Religion Database
Covers all religious traditions; strongest coverage is for materials dealing with the Judeo-Christian tradition. While about half of the material included is in English. Includes materials published...   [more]
Holdings: 1949 to the present. Updated two times a year.

Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving
The Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European la...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Black Abolitionists Archive
University of Detroit Mercy Black Abolitionists Archive is an historical research center which contains an extensive primary source collection on antebellum black activism....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Black Economic Empowerment: The National Negro Business League
- from Archives Unbound
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Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle
- from Archives Unbound
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Black Literature Index
- from Black Studies Center
"This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to co...   [more]

Black Studies Center
Resource combining the Chicago Defender online (1910-1975), the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and a variety of multimedia resources exploring ...   [more]

Black Women Writers
- from Alexander Street Press
Searchable fulltext for writings by women from Africa and the African diaspora worldwide. Includes more than 460 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts in more than 100,000 pages in English, French, Fr...   [more]

Chicago Tribune (1849-1990), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1849-1990

Colored Conventions
From 1830 until well after the Civil War, free and fugitive Blacks came together in state and national political "Colored Conventions." This is a collection of some of the most important 19th century...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (EBSCO)
Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with other EBSCO databases....   [more]

ERIC - Education Resources Information Center (ProQuest)
Indexes education-related journal articles and other publications. Cross-file search with other ProQuest databases....   [more]

Family & Society Studies Worldwide
The most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. Formerly produced by the National Co...   [more]
Holdings: 1970-present.

Filmakers Library Online
- from Alexander Street Press
Filmakers Library is a multidisciplinary collection of over 1,400 documentaries made from 1974 to the present by independent filmmakers from around the world that can now be streamed over computer. Th...   [more]

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
Also Known as: Franklin D Roosevelt and Race Relations 1933-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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Health Materials Database (U.S. Office of Minority Health)
The U. S. Office of Minority Health supports a group of materials databases which include minority health organizations, programs and documents. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

Index to Early American Periodicals
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Librar...   [more]

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Supplemental URLs
    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

Liberation Movement in Africa and African America
- from Archives Unbound
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Manuscripts Relating to Slavery: New-York Historical Society
The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. T...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

Music Index Online
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for pos...   [more]

New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1922-1993

New York Times (1851-2012), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and avail...   [more]
Holdings: 1851-2011

Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1911-2002

Project Muse
Also Known as: Muse
Project Muse provides full text access to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Coverage begins in 1995 or more recently and in most cases c...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 1: Federal Government Records
Also Known as: History Vault , Black Freedom , ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom I Digital Archive
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 2: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: Complete NAACP Papers Online
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: NAACP Papers 2: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 1 Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
Also Known as: NAACP
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 3: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 2 Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 4: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 3 Legal Department Files
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 5: Special Subjects 1912-1972
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 6: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files
- from ProQuest History Vault
The NAACP branch files in this module chronicle the local heroes of the civil rights revolution via NAACP branches throughout the United States, from 1913-1972. The contributions of scores of local le...   [more]

Proquest History Vault: Slavery and the Law
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest One Literature (formerly Literature Online - LION)
Also Known as: LION
LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. Separate databases are English Poetry (1100-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), African-American ...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Literatire Online Premium

Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association's comprehensive indexing and abstracting service for the professional and scholarly literature in psychology and related fields. Coverage is worldwide. Sources a...   [more]
Holdings: 1887 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    PsycINFO Classification Categories and Codes (APA Online)
    PsycINFO Journal Coverage List (APA Online)

Race Relations Abstracts
Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.

Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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Rastafari Ephemeral Publications From The Written Rastafari Archives Project
- from Archives Unbound
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RCMD : Resource Center for Minority Data
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Unrestricted Access

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Also Known as: RILM Retrospective, RILM Comprehensive
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]
Holdings: Updated monthly.

Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]
Holdings: 1998-2004

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Social Work Abstracts
Also Known as: SWAB
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Covers social work and other related topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, co...   [more]
Holdings: 1965 to present. Updated semi-annually.

Stokeley Carmichael: FBI Report
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Unrestricted Access

The Black Power Movement: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1962-1996
This collection of Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) consists of the personal files of RAM founder and National Field Chairman Muhammad Ahmad and of RAM members John H. Bracey Jr. and ...   [more]

The Black Power Movement: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1965-1976
This collection of records of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) consists of the personal files collected by General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the founding members of the Dodge Revolution...   [more]

The Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
Also Known as: Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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The Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
Also Known as: Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
- from Archives Unbound
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The Republic of New Afrika: Independence, Reparations, and Citizenship
Also Known as: Republic of New Afrika
- from Archives Unbound
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Urban Studies Abstracts
Also Known as: Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]
Holdings: 1973-present.

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Related Africana Studies Databases & Article Indexes

African American Poetry, 1750-1900
Nearly 3,000 full-text poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...   [more]

Anthropological Index Online
Content is in Anthropology Plus. Index to current periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, London. Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and ph...   [more]
Holdings: 1957-.
Unrestricted Access
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AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
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Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database
Also Known as: Bullwinkle
Bibliographic citations, with subject, country and region, and author indexing, for the periodical literature on Africa....   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies.
Unrestricted Access

Chicano Database
Covers all types of materials relating to Mexican-American topics and, for materials published since 1992, broader topics relating to Latinos....   [more]
Holdings: 1967 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
Supplemental URLs
    old interface

Digital Library of the Caribbean
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean c...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United State...   [more]
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EIU Country Commerce
- from EIU - Economist Intelligence Unit
Guide to regulations, operating conditions, and corporate practices in more than 60 countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1996 - Present

GenderWatch
GenderWatch, formerly titled Women 'R', contains 40,000 articles from more than 100 journals, magazines, newsletters, special reports, unpublished papers and conference proceedings devoted to gender a...   [more]
Holdings: The database contains a large body of archival material, in some cases, as far back as 1970.

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences Covers all aspects of the study of language including linguistics, language acquisi...   [more]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Search Guide
    LLBA Classification Codes

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    LN Academic becomes Nexis Uni transition
    LexisNexis Academic (old interface)

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Philosopher's Index
Also Known as: Philosophers Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics,...   [more]

PolicyFile
Also Known as: Policy File
Indexing with abstracts of U.S. and foreign domestic and international public policy research literature. ...   [more]

Proquest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal...   [more]
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Sage Family Studies Abstracts
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Bibliographic citations with abstracts for literature on policy, theory, and research relating to the family, traditional and alternative lifestyles, therapy, and counselling. Subjects covered include...   [more]
Holdings: 1999-2004

Social Services Abstracts
Also Known as: social service abstracts
- from CSA Databases
Indexing with abstracts for scholarly and professional journal literature in social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include: cri...   [more]
Holdings: 1979-present. Updates monthly
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (CSA)

Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (ProQuest LibGuide)

Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
Also Known as: 20th century African American Poetry, 20th c African American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the la...   [more]
Holdings: 20th century

U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
Supplemental URLs
    Old URL, as DDRS