African American Literature Resources

 

Databases

 

Academic Search Premier
EBSCOHost's Academic Search Premier indexes magazine and journal articles, many of which are available full text. Over 300 literary journals are indexed. It is possible to search for peer-reviewed journal articles or for those that contain the full text of the article. It is also possible to search for articles from specific journals.

American Civil War Letters and Diaries
The collection includes approximately 100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters and diaries from individuals on all aspects of the Civil War.

Black Drama - 1850 to present
contain 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. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print.

Black Thought and Culture (Alexander Street Press)
Hundreds of non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, most in full text.

Dissertation Abstracts Online
Contains abstracts of dissertations on a wide range of academic subjects, including literature. 1861-present.

Digital Dissertations

Digital Dissertations provides more than 2 million entries to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses. More than 600,000 are available in native or PDF formats for immediate free download. Coverage 1861-current.

Essay and General Literature Index
An index to essays that appear in collections focusing on the social sciences and the humanities.

Expanded Academic Index (ASAP)
Periodicals covering all academic concentrations.

Gale's Literature Resource Center
Full-text author biographies, critical essays, and more drawn from several Gale resources, including Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and the Literary Criticism sets.

GenderWatch
This is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Information on women authors and their books can be found here.

Granger's World of Poetry Online
Contains poetry citations, poems in full text, scholarly commentary on poems and poets, biographical and bibliographical information and a glossary of poetic terms.

Humanities International Complete
Covers journals, books and other sources in the humanities. Indexes and abstracts over 1,700 journals.

InfoTrac OneFile
For college students. Indexes and abstracts magazines and journals on all topics, with many articles available in full text.

JSTOR
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in all fields.

Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time periods. LRC combines information from major reference works, books, literary journals, and more. Some articles available in full-text.

Literature Online (LION)
LION is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 136 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

MLA International Bibliography
This is the primary database for literary research and indexes scholarly articles in literary journals, books and dissertations. Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Check CONSULS to see if we own the publication cited.

New York Times Historical Archives
Contains the full-text of New York Times from 1851-to 2001 (rolling window).

Project Muse
Contains full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Wilson Select Plus
Indexes/abstracts articles in the humanities, including philosophy, folklore, linguistics, archeology, film, religion, and literature. Includes film and book reviews.

 

   Winnie Shyam

   Reference Librarian