Black Studies

The Black Studies Center supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines. This resource includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience,International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), two historical black newspapers (Chicago Defender and the Daily Defender), and the Black Literature Index.
URL: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/home/home.do

Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience includes interdisciplinary essays and a series of topical studies designed to help define the development of Black Studies as an academic field written by leading scholars on the Black Experience.
URL: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do

The International Index to Black Periodicals covers scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, including full text for many titles. The Marshall Index is a guide to black periodicals, 1940-1946.
URL: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do

Chicago Defender and the Daily Defender—full text access to these newspapers from 1910—1976; 1999 to present available in Ethnic Newswatch .
URL: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do

Black Literature Index—Over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
URL: http://bsc.chadwyck.com/search/initAdvancedSearch.do

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. 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:
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://www.alexanderstreet2.com/bltclive/

Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in African American History —primary sources on the civil rights movement, the NAACP’s legal campaign against segregation and racism, late 19th and early 20th century peonage cases in the South, African Americans and the New Deal, the crusade against the movie Birth of a Nation, and much more. Also available are rare materials on slavery from colonial through antebellum years, the Civil War, reconstruction, and 20th century political developments. At present, the African American History module contains over 8,700 documents (7,400+ primary source items) composed of nearly 46,000 full-text searchable pages.
URL: http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/histuniv/

Gale Virtual Reference Library;

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.

Black Studies titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include

Contemporary Black Biography. v. 47 (2005)–v. 71 (2009)

URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl

General Interest Databases

Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.

Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.

JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.

Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.