Electronic Resources

Subject Resources: African-American Studies

= USC users only     = Multiple sources

Databases
	20th Century African-American Poetry 10,000 poems by 70 African-American modern and contemporary poets. Part of the Literature Online collection.
	African American Music Reference
	African American Newspapers: The 19th Century Covers African-American newspapers from the 19th century.
			19th century; varies by title
	African American Song The first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service.
	African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
	Arts & Humanities Citation Index Citation database for arts & humanties
		ISI	1975 to present
	Arts & Humanities Search Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
		First Search (OCLC)	1980 to the present
	Black Studies Center
	Chicago Defender
	eHRAF: Collection of Ethnography Collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject
	Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
		Proquest	1990 to the present
	Expanded Academic ASAP Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, many in full-text.
			1980 -- present
	Family & Society Studies Worldwide Research, policy and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development.
		NISC	1970 -- present
	Gale Virtual Reference Library Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects.
	History Resource Center US Provides access to over 4,000 historical documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
	HOMER Catalog of the Information Services Division's library materials (all libraries except Health Sciences Libraries and Law Library catalogs)
	International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text IIPA covers nearly all aspects of performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.
			1998 - present
	Left Index Focused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left.
	LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Full text business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
			varies
	NetLibrary Collection of full-text electronic books.
	ProQuest Access databases of resources for arts, business, humanities, social sciences, science and newspaper resources.
			varies
	Social Sciences Citation Index Citation database for the social sciences
			1965 to present
	Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) Web of Science is part of ISI's Web of Knowledge which also includes Arts & Humanties and Social Sciences citation databases.
			1900-present
	Wilson Humanities Full Text An index of articles in the humanities.
		H.W. Wilson	Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, ?select? Full Text 1994+
eJournals
	African American Review Official publication of MLA's Black American Literature and Culture division.
		JSTOR	v. 26 - 35 (1992 - 2001)
	Black American Literature Forum Early publication of MLA's Black American Literature and Culture division.
		JSTOR	v. 10 - 25 (1976 - 1991)
	Callaloo Original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
		Project Muse	v. 1, no. 1 (1976)-present
		JSTOR	no. 1 - 41 (1976 - 1989) ---- v. 13 - 27 (1990 - 2004)
	Demography Interdisciplinary journal of general interest articles for population scientists.
		Project Muse	v. 37 (2000) -- present
	differences Focuses on how concepts of difference operate within culture.
		Project Muse	v. 10, no. 3 (1998)
	Eighteenth-Century Studies Official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 37 (1967 - 2004)
	Ethnic & Racial Studies
	Ethnomusicology Research Digest Forum for scholars, researchers, and graduate students interested in ethnomusicology.
	Journal of Black Studies Scholarship on the Black experience.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 32 (1970 - 2001)
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 29, no. 3 (1999) -- 2004
		Sage	v. 29, no. 3 (1999)-- present
	Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Importance of higher education in the lives of Black Americans.
		JSTOR	no. 1 - 34 (1993 - 2002)
	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography International journal dedicated to ethnography and qualitative research.
		First Search (OCLC)	v. 27, no. 1 (1999)-- 2004
	Journal of Negro Education Study of Blacks and education.
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 68 (1932 - 1999)
	Journal of Negro History Articles on Black history and culture
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 86 (1916 - 2001)
	Journal of Population Economics Research on relationships between economic and demographic problems.
		MetaPress (Springer)	v. 9, no. 1 (1996)--present (older issues may be abstract only)
	MELUS Scholarly journal dedicated to multi-ethnic literature in English
		JSTOR	v. 1 - 26 (1974 - 2001)
	Negro American Literature Forum
			v. 1 - 10 (1967 - 1976)
	Sociological Quarterly Research and theory in all areas of sociological inquiry.
		Blackwell-Synergy	1997 -- Present
	Transition Book reviews and essays in black studies.
		Project Muse	v. 9 - 10 (2000 - 2001)
		JSTOR	no. 1 - 80 (1961 - 1999) -- v. 9 - 10 (2000 - 2001)
eBooks
	Gale Virtual Reference Library Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects.
Web Sites
	African American Women's History A directory of sites about the history of black women in America
	Black Facts Online Online database of Black History information
	Black History Hotlist Links to Internet resources for exploring African-American history and issues
	W.E.B. Du Bois (DuBois) Global Resource Collection