Research Guides: Black Studies Research Guide: Find Articles

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These core Black Studies databases are good places to start!

Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.
Africa Knowledge Project (1999-Present) This link opens in a new window
Africa Knowledge Project disseminates Africa-centered, evidence-based knowledge on Africa and the African diaspora.

African Digital Research Repositories
Open access repositories, listed by country, ordered alphabetically. A project of the International African Institute at the SOAS University of London.

America, History & Life (1964 to present) This link opens in a new window
Core database for the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
Black Studies Center (25,000 BC to present) This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable gateway to black studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present) This link opens in a new window
Core database for scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Alumni access
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (1926 to present) This link opens in a new window
Covers critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. Alumni access
Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Covers academic literature for disciplines ranging from anthropology, sociology, and political science to communication, education, criminology, demography, economics, and more.

Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
Full-text publications on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theater, and cultural studies.
ATLA Religion Database (1949 to present) This link opens in a new window
Core index to journal articles, essays, and book reviews in the field of religion.
Communications and Mass Media Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Journals on advertising, public relations, writing, and other aspects of communications.
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic and full-text database of film and television articles from scholarly and popular publications; includes images from the MPTV Image Archive of entertainment photography.
Index Islamicus (1906 to present) This link opens in a new window
Covers literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world, including Muslim areas of Asia and Africa.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text critical studies, biographies of authors; covers all genres, all time periods, and all regions.
Web of Science (1984 to present) This link opens in a new window
Search thousands of journals across the sciences and social sciences and track cited references to locate more recent articles.
Women's Studies International (1972 to present) This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary, covering the latest scholarship in feminist research.

Peer-reviewed articles are:

written by experts in the field
assessed for validity and scholarly rigor by other experts in the field (peer review)
published in scholarly journals