Databases: Social Sciences: African American

Academic Search Complete VCU

Coverage: 1887 - present

Comprehensive scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database. Includes over 5,500 full-text periodicals and indexing/abstracting for over 9,500 journals. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.

ACLS Humanities E-Book VCU

Coverage: Ancient History - Present

Humanities E-Book (HEB) -- offered by the American Council of Learned Socieites (ACLS) -- is a digital collection of significant scholarship in the Humanities.

African American Biographical Database VCU

Coverage: 1790 - 1950

Large collection of biographies with full text access to the primary source material.

African American Music Reference VCU

Coverage: 1600 - 1970

African American Music Reference offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African-American Poetry Database VCU

Coverage: 1760 - 1900

Searchable collection of over 2,500 poems.

Alternative Press Index VCU

Coverage: 1969 - present

Covers journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Includes Alt. Press Archive.

Aluka VCU

Coverage: Prehistory - Present

An international initiative to build an online library of full-text scholarly resources from and about Africa, Aluka includes archival documents, books, ecological data, periodicals, reports, maps, and oral histories.

American History in Video VCU

Coverage: 1492 - present

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles.

Archive of Americana VCU

Coverage: 1639 - 1980

Combined interface for searching Early American Imprints I & II (1639-1819), American State Papers (1789-1838), and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980).

Berg Fashion Library VCU

Coverage: Ancient History - present

Provides cross-searchable access to interdisciplinary text and image content on world dress and fashion. Includes e-books, reference works, images, and more.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index VCU

Indexes more than 15 million biographical sketches from reference books covering individuals, living and deceased, from every field and all areas of the world.

Black Studies Center VCU

Coverage: 25,000 B.C. - present

Black Studies Center is a digital core collection of primary and secondary sources in arts, history, literature, politics, and religion that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times.

Book Review Index Online Plus VCU

Coverage: 1965 - present

Indexes reviews from scholarly and popular journals primarily in the fields of general fiction and non-fiction, the humanities, and the social sciences. Includes citations and full text reviews.

Britannica Online VCU

Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica, news, magazines, journals, web sites, research tools, and multimedia.

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest) VCU

Coverage: 1637 - present

Full text for most dissertations from 1997 to the present. Includes full text for some earlier dissertations, along with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses citations from around the world.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 VCU

Coverage: 1639-1800

Virtually all books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints of 17th- and 18th-century America. Covers thousands of subjects in full-text.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 VCU

Coverage: 1801-1819

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other imprints of early 19th-century America. Covers thousands of subjects in full-text.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online VCU

Coverage: 1700 - 1800

With over 136,000 titles and 26 million pages, ECCO contains every published text of historical significance from Great Britain and Colonial America during the 18th Century.

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences VCU

Full text reference guide for those working in quality control, economics, probability and statistics as well as for those applying statistical methods in any discipline. Updated annually, with revisions and new articles added quarterly.

Ethnic NewsWatch VCU

Full text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, native and minority press.

Ethnographic Video Online VCU

Hundreds of classic and contemporary documentaries on the study of human culture and behavior covering every region of the world.

Filmakers Library Online VCU

Award-winning documentaries and independent films presenting points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition VCU

Coverage: 18th Century - present

The Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States enhances coverage of Native Americans, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Innovative search strategies allow users to focus research across historical periods.

International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) VCU

Coverage: 1998 - present

Full abstracting and indexing for about 85 scholarly and popular current periodicals from 1998 forward. Full-text is provided for 24 of these journals. Also included in the database are retrospective citations from about 40 journals.

iPOLL VCU

Coverage: 1935-

Contains nearly a half-million questions from surveys conducted since 1935 by over 150 academic, commercial, and media survey organizations such as Gallup, CNN, Pew Research Associates, the Wall Street Journal, and others.

Left Index VCU

Coverage: 1982 - present

Covers the diverse political, economic, social, and cultural literature of the left. Also covers some historically significant early left publications.

LGBT Life VCU

Coverage: 1953 - present

Index to the world's literature regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. Includes full text for over 120 journals, magazines, and newspapers, and over 150 books.

Music Online VCU

Coverage: Ancient World - present

Music Online provides the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Integrated searching by ensemble, genre, historical events and more provides in-depth context for music history.

New York Times VCU

Coverage: 1851 - 2006

More than a newspaper for an American city, the New York Times is an international record of national and world news, as well as personal stories of how events affect individuals.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online VCU

Coverage: 1789 - 1914

Digital archive of primary source collections from the "long" 19th century. Includes monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, diaries, letters, maps, statistics and more. Offers annotation and tagging tools.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context VCU

Coverage: 1980 - present

Full text access to differing points of view on current social issues. Includes essays, overviews, primary source documents, biographies, articles, tables, charts, graphs, podcasts, and images.

Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database) VCU

Coverage: 1977 - present

International marketing data and research. Provides statistics and analysis across industries, countries, and consumers. Includes over 18,000 full market reports.

ProQuest Databases VCU

Databases covering the sciences, health sciences, arts, business, and social sciences.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive VCU

Coverage: 1500 - 1865

Presents the history of slavery alongside efforts and actions to end it, drawing from thousands of documents, some very rare, in a comprehensive, conceptual, and global way.

Social Sciences Abstracts VCU

Coverage: 1983 - present

Citations and abstracts to articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

Social Sciences Citation Index VCU

Coverage: 1965 - present

Database of references cited in articles from more than 1,725 major journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. Search by cited reference, topic, and author.

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Urban Studies Abstracts VCU

Coverage: 1973-present

Covers trends in urbanization, urban affairs, community development, urban history, housing and real estate, and architecture and urban design.

Voice of the Shuttle

Coverage: Pre-history - present

Voice of the Shuttle, established in 1994, provides a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources for a wide range of academic disciplines in the humanities -- and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact

World News Connection VCU

Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.