- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
- Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women’s studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals. Academic Search Complete is updated daily.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h
- African American Biographical Database
- Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. This extraordinary collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. AABD draws its initial content from Chadwyck-Healey’s acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950 and includes descriptive listings of individuals taken from Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index, edited by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands.
URL: http://aabd.chadwyck.com/
- Black Thought and Culture
- Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. It contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans including the words of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and hundreds of other notable people.
URL: http://bltc.alexanderstreet.com
- Literature Resource Center
- is a complete literature reference database and the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods and in all genres. Provides electronic access to Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 115,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, profiles of 266 most studied authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works. Links to more than 250 prominent literary journals. Includes the Scribner Writer Series, featuring more than 1500 biocritical essays on authors. Over 4900 explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to 5800 websites focusing on major authors and their works; over 6000 timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, 2300 author portraits; and a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper.
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=uiuc_csu&authCount=1
- MLA International Bibliography
- is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric, composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=mzh
- Project MUSE
- A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
- A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the humanities and social sciences
- Includes 2.4 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from 1861.
- Features 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format from 1997 forward and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
- More than 60,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year.
URL: http://search.proquest.com/pqdtft/advanced?accountid=10079
