Databases

• America: History and Life : An index of journal articles, books reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from earliest times to the present.
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index : An index to biographical sketches and articles covering living and deceased persons throughout the world.
• The Black Collegian Online : A national career opportunities magazine containing career planning/job search information as well as commentary by leading African-American writers, lifestyle/entertainment features, general information on college life and news of what's happening on college campuses today.
• Callaloo : From Project Muse, a journal of African and African-American arts and literature containing original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide.
• Contemporary Women's Issues : A full-text database providing global information on women covering 1992 to the present.
• ERIC : An index to journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards and guidelines. Especially useful for educational impact in the area of African-American studies.
  Please note: Beginning in January 2004, the U.S. Department of Education is implementing a reengineering plan for the ERIC database. See: Educational Resources Information Center. Consequently, it is projected that no new records will be entered in ERIC until September 2004. For current journal articles in education, use another database, such as Education Full Text.
• Expanded Academic ASAP : An index to bibliographic references, abstracts, or full-text articles from more than 600 scholarly journals and popular magazines from 1980 to the present.
• Greenwood Daily Life Online : Looks at the everyday lives of people throughout history (antiquity to present) from the material, religious, domestic, political, recreational, intellectual, and economic viewpoints. Based on numerous primary and secondary resources, the database includes historical overviews, maps, illustrations, chronologies, and sidebars. Organized by time period, region, and topic.
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877) : Provides full-text access to 21 years of Harper's Weekly, a leading 19th-century illustrated newspaper. Researchers can search the full text, browse the individual issues, or use the thesaurus-based index. They can also browse through the categories of Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society, and Topic Headings.
• Historical Abstracts (1955 to the present) : Covers all aspects of history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
• Humanities Abstracts : Indexes a broad range of some 500 magazines and journal publications in the humanities. Covers topics in archaeology and classical studies, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and related subjects. Coverage extends from 1983 to the present. Continues print Humanities Index, 1975-1996 (REFB AI 3 .H85) and Social Sciences and Humanities Index, 1965-1974 (REFB AI 3 .R282).
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
  Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, providing citations to more than 1,300,000 articles. Covers topics in archaeology and classical studies, anthropology, folklore, history, gender studies, language and literature, economics, drama, political science, philosophy, international relations, music, sociology, journalism, psychology, religion, geography, and many other related subjects.
  Coverage extends from 1907 through 1984.
• Literature Resource Center 12/04
  A biographical guide covering more than 100,000 current writers.
• Quarterly Black Review of Books
  A review of current fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books including interviews, bestseller lists, and information for writers.
• Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI)
  An index to thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from 1770-1991.
• Project Muse
  An index to full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
• Social Sciences Abstracts
  Interdisciplinary database covering more than 400 English-language social science journals.
  Covers topics in anthropology, criminal justice, economics, sociology, psychology, political science, gender studies, political science, and more.
  Coverage from 1971 to present. Continues print Social Sciences and Humanities Index, 1965-1974 (REFB AI 3 .R282).
  Citations and some abstracts, no full-text.
• Sociological Abstracts
  An index to more than 2,600 journals in anthropology, sociology, demography, and other social sciences covering 1963 to the present. Continues print Sociological Abstracts, 1954-1963 (REFB HM 1 .S67).

For a complete listing of databases provided by UMW Libraries, please see Databases A-Z.

selected References in Simpson Library

• The African American Almanac REFB/E/185/.A253/1993
• African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook REFB/PS/366/.A35/A36/2002.
• The African American Encyclopedia REFB/E/185/.E54/1996
• African American Literature REFB/PS/153/.N5/G73/2005
• African American Writers REFB/PS/153/.N5/B214/2004
• Atlas of African-American History REFB/E/185/.C55/2001
• Bibliography of African American Leadership: An Annotated Guide REFB/E/185.61/.W285/2000
• Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present REFB/E/185/H64/1991
• Contemporary Black Biography REFB/E/185.96/.C66
• The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History REFB/E/185/.E54/2006
• The Encyclopedia of African-American Politics REFB/E/185/.S58155/2003
• The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America REFB/E/185.61/E544/1998
• Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society REFB/E/185.93/.V8/V58/2002
• Multicultural Resources on the Internet REFB/E/184/.A1/G874/1999
• The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference REFB/E/185/.N49/1999
• Notable Black American Men REFB/E/185.86/.N68/1999
• Notable Black American Women REFB/E/185.96/.N68/1992

Websites

• Africana.com : Contains feature stories, book and movie reviews, news, and more.
• African-American Internet Links : A comprehensive site of listservs, gophers, websites, and newsgroups.
• African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 : A collection of over 2,500 full-text poems based on Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975.
• African Americana : An extensive site including bibliographies, library catalog links, discussion and newsgroup listings, exhibits, periodicals, documents, and links to other websites.
• American Slave Narratives - An Online Anthology : An anthology of slave narratives taken from the mid-1930's as part of the WPA program. Links to bibliographies and to additional Internet sources of slave narratives.
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress : The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
• HarpWeek: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction (1857-1877) : Provides full-text access to 21 years of Harper's Weekly, a leading 19th-century illustrated newspaper. Researchers can search the full text, browse the individual issues, or use the thesaurus-based index. They can also browse through the categories of Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society, and Topic Headings.
• Information Resources on African American Studies
• Javanoir: a Selected Guide to African American Resources on the Internet
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project : A site that includes bibliographies, articles, papers, etc. on Dr. King.
• A Roadmap to African-American and Diversity Resources
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture : A site of the New York Public Library providing a vast collection of resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
• The Universal Black Pages : A site with links to hundreds of sources arranged in topical areas such as art, business, entertainment events, history, music, and many more.

Newspapers

• AFRO-America@: The Afro-American Newspapers Homepage : Provides listings of current news stories on African Americans divided into categories and links to other sites of African American interest.
• Atlanta Tribune Online : Online version of a leading minority newspaper in the Southeast. Includes features, columns, travel, business and more.