Research Guides: Africana Studies: Find Articles

Core Africana Studies Databases

Ebsco Research Tools

Search across most EbscoHost article databases as well as the Ebsco e-book collection; interdisciplinary in scope. Note: this search excludes America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts, and L'Année philologique.

Includes:
--Academic Search Complete
--Anthropology Plus
--Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913-1983
--Art Full Text
--Art Index Retrospective
--ATLA Religion Database
--Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983
--Biography Reference Bank
--Book Review Digest Plus
--Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1903-1982
--Communication & Mass Media Complete
--EconLit
--Essay and General Literature Retrospective
--Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983
--Film & Television Literature Index
--GreenFILE
--Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
--Index Islamicus
--Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text
--Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
--Music Index Full Text
--Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
--International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
--MLA International Bibliography
--eBook Collection
--OmniFile Full Text Mega
--PsycARTICLES
--PsycINFO
--Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
--RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
--Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983
ProQuest Research Tools
Multidisciplinary collection of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Search includes all of the Davidson College Library ProQuest databases.
Web of Science

An interdisciplinary resource with journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. Includes ArtStor licensed images. AI interactive research tool available when logged into your JSTOR account.

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Nexis Uni
Coverage of news and current events, government, business, medical, and legal topics, as well as general reference information is included.

Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
World News Connection
English-language summaries and translations of foreign news reports, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports, and other local media sources from around the world covering 1995-2013.

For earlier years, see the FBIS Daily Reports (1941-1996) database.

These materials are provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2
Provides online access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience.

Part of the America’s Historical Newspapers collection.
Access World News
Contains diverse global, local, regional, and national newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, videos, periodicals, and web-only content.
Includes electronic access to the Charlotte Observer (1886-present), in addition to many local North Carolina newspapers.

Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core is the home of academic journals and ebooks from Cambridge University Press.

Note: Choose "Only search content I have access to" below the search box when searching to limit results to collections Davidson owns. We do not subscribe to the entire Cambridge Core collection.
Oxford Journals Online
Journals published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
SAGE Journals
The full text of peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences published by Sage.
Wiley Online Library
This database contains journals ebooks, published by John Wiley & Sons and Blackwell Publishing, multidisciplinary in scope.

Annual Reviews
A collection of critical reviews of primary research literature reviews. Includes 51 Annual Review titles.
AnthroSource

Searches American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, newsletters, bulletins, and monographs, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology, as well as an archive of back issues, with links to JSTOR where appropriate.
Women's Issues and Identities
Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.

Historical Abstracts, and America: History & Life

Citations to articles, book chapters, book reviews, and more.
Historical Abstracts covers world history from 1450 to the present; America:History & Life covers the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to present. Search is for both by default, you can choose one or the other.

Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
Indexes journal articles, essays, and books, book reviews, and critical editions of literary works published world-wide; covers all literature's in English as well as the English language, bibliography, textual studies, and the history of publishing.
Project MUSE
Database of humanities and social science ebooks and journals.

Titles are DRM-free allowing for unlimited access, downloading and printing, and simultaneous usage.

Africana Studies

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