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Ethnic NewsWatch
(ProQuest):
Full-text articles from 240 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press. Subject areas: general reference, history and politics,
humanities and social sciences. Coverage: 1990 to present. Updated: weekly.
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African American Biography Database (Chadwyck-Healey):
With content from Black Biographical Dictionaries (1790-1950)
and Black Biography (1790-1950): Cumulative Index, this
resource includes portraits of well-known and everyday African
American such as activists, business people, former slaves, artists,
educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers,
athletes, farmers, and scientists. As the database continues to
grown, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites,
etc. will be added. Coverage: profiles from 1790 to present. Updated:
Continuously.
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African American Music Reference (Alexander
Street Press):
Is a new resource that will eventually contain 50,000 pages of
coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave
songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of
black American musical expression. The fall 2007 release includes
1304 essays and images from 36 sources, over 13506 pages. Content
includes biographies of 185 African American composers and
5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
(Web of Science):
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature
in the arts and humanities. Coverage: 1987 to present. Updated: weekly.
Guides:
Tutorial
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Note: To search only the Arts &
Humanities Citation Index, click the change limits
link towards
the bottom of the screen and uncheck the boxes for
Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. |
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Black
Drama - 1850 to present: (Alexander Street Press):
Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the
mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North
America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African
Diaspora countries. The plays are accompanied by
reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich
performance database, and images.
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Black Studies on Disc (Hall): Provides citations to
articles, book chapters, and manuscripts of interest to African
American studies in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Found
on workstations in the reference area.
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ComAbstracts
(CIOS):
Citations and abstracts of journal articles published in over 50 primary professional
journals in the communications field. Coverage: 1980 to present.
Updated: monthly.
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Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost):
This resource includes full text from at least 25 communication
studies journals (i.e. full text for the National Communication
Association Journal), and citations for over 40,000 articles on mass
media. Materials in this database are the result of merging
CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index with ongoing
enhancements and improvements underway. Coverage: Early 20th century. Updated: Daily.
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Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, & the Environment (Alexander Street Press):
Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents
the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North
America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique
perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves,
missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both
men and women.
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eHRAF
World Cultures (HRAF) (formally eHRAF Collection of
Ethnography):
A cross-cultural database that contains
over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and
social life. eHRAF is the online portion, covering
approximately 150 cultures. Together with the corresponding
microfiche set (Murphy Library basement), over 400 cultures are
covered. Updated: annually.
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Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (Sage):
This e-book includes nearly 600 entries covering intergroup
relations in the United States and the comparative examination
of race and ethnicity worldwide. Themes
include: * Biographies * Community and Urban Issues * Concepts and Theories * Criminal Justice * Economics and Stratification
* Education * Gender and Family * Global Perspectives * Health and Social Welfare * Immigration and Citizenship
* Legislation, Court Decisions, and Treaties * Media, Sports, and Entertainment * Organizations * Prejudice and Discrimination
* Public Policy * Racial, Ethnic, and Nationality Groups * Religion * Sociopolitical Movements and Conflicts. Last Updated:
2008.
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JSTOR:
Access to the full text of
over 490 scholarly journals.
Coverage: varies (some 19th century) to 2001. Updated:
quarterly.
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New look, same resource. JSTOR
has a new look as of April 4. |
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North American
Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (Alexander Street Press):
This database includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of
information intended to provide a unique and personal view of what it
meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
It is composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories,
interviews, and other personal narratives, and some audio voices of
the immigrants. Coverage: 1800s to
1950.
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North American
Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press):
North
American Women's Letters and Diaries (NAWLD) includes the immediate
experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of
diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more
than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years.
The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated
bibliography of the sources in the database. Coverage: 1700s to
1950.
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Project
Muse:
Includes the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the
fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and
performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science,
gender studies, and many others. Coverage: 1993 to present. Updated:
monthly.
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