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  • Black Studies Center

    Black Studies Center

    Scholarly essays and access to articles in Black Studies journals. Combines the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and the full-text of The Chicago Defender, an important Black newspaper, from 1935-1975

  • Black Studies in Video

    Black Studies in Video

    Brings together documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience.  The collection contains over 500 hours of film covering history, politics, art and culture, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

  • Black Thought and Culture

    Black Thought and Culture

    Full-text collection of published non-fiction works is included, as well as interviews, journal articles, letters, and other materials of leading African-Americans. Biographical essays by leading scholars and an annotated bibliography of the sources in the database are also featured.

  • Black Women Writers

    Black Women Writers

    Works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean.

  • Cambridge Collections Online

    Cambridge Collections Online

    Searchable full text access to the complete Cambridge Companions to literature, philosophy, religion, and classics.

  • Caribbean Literature

    Caribbean Literature

    Full text of fiction, poetry, essays, plays, and other materials by authors from the Caribbean archipelago

  • Caribbean Newspapers 1718-1876

    Caribbean Newspapers 1718-1876

    Online collection of 18th and 19th century Caribbean newspapers. 

  • Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive

    Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive

    More than 1,000 hours of edited and unedited footage from the Banyone Production Company, the first Caribbean enterprise to produce original TV content in the 1970s. Programs are filled with interviews of key personalities across disciplines; theater, music and dance performances; documentaries on rituals and cultural practices; political events and more.

  • Contemporary Black Biography

    Contemporary Black Biography

    Biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage of various nationalities.

  • EconLit

    EconLit

    Indexes international economic literature. Includes major journals, articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, full-text book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

  • Education Full Text

    Education Full Text

    Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Cover-to cover indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals covering such topics as: comparative education, competency-based education, higher education, literacy standards, prayer in public schools, student counseling, teaching methods and evaluation, and dozens more.

  • Essay and General Literature Index

    Essay and General Literature Index

    Access to essays and articles published in collections, with emphasis on works in the humanities and social sciences.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch

    Ethnic NewsWatch

    Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library

    Gale Virtual Reference Library

    Contains many reference works on a large variety of topics.

  • Gallup Analytics

    Gallup Analytics

    Analyze, visualize, and export data from Gallup's U.S. Daily tracking and World Poll surveys. U.S. tracks economic, wellbeing, and political data collected daily since 2008. It can be analyzed daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually as well as by state and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). World Poll data covers more than 80 metrics from 160+ countries collected since 2005. Does not include access to microdata.

  • Gender Studies Database

    Gender Studies Database

    Combines Women's Studies International, and Men's Studies databases with coverage of sexual diversity issues. Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. An added feature is the Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption database, with citations and abstracts to books, journal articles final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies. Materials cited are primarily in English-language, originating from U.S. research and service programs.

  • Historical Abstracts with Full Text

    Historical Abstracts with Full Text

    Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

  • Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition

    Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition

    Statistical series on subjects ranging from population and land area to production figures for crops and manufactured products. Detailed documentation provides brief histories of the statistical series and source materials.

  • HistoryMakers

    HistoryMakers

    Oral history interviews with more than 1,600 historically significant African Americans in fields such as the arts, business, education, entertainment, the law, the military, politics, religion, and science.

  • Humanities Source Ultimate

    Humanities Source Ultimate

    Encompasses all key fields of the humanities. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews.   

  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: IBSS

    International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: IBSS

    Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science. Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

  • International Index to Black Periodicals

    International Index to Black Periodicals

    Current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts for over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean.

  • JSTOR

    JSTOR

    Full text archive of core journals in select disciplines. Journal issues from the most recent 3-5 years are usually NOT available electronically through JSTOR.  Also includes full text of many Princeton University Press books as well as books in Classics from many university presses.

  • Liberator

    Liberator

    Full-text of the weekly abolitionist newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts by William Lloyd Garrison. 

  • Literary Reference Center

    Literary Reference Center

    Broad spectrum of reference information. Full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. Contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.

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