Research Guides: *African and African American Studies (AAAS): Databases

Databases for Both African & African American Studies

Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
A fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies covering scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database (previously known as International Index to Black Periodicals), and Black Literature Index.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Wide variety of scholarly literature, newspapers, magazines, and more covering topics from a wide variety of disciplines. A great place to start searching for sources on your subject!
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search all JSTOR journal collections at once or any of the journal collections listed above individually. All articles are in full text.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Excellent collection of hundreds of scholarly humanities and social sciences journals. All articles are available in full text.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search journals of sociology and related disciplines. Be sure use the index of "Subject Terms" to stretch the search capabilities of this database to their fullest extent!

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Public policy papers and grey literature from over 120 countries, 1915-present.

AllAfrica
AllAfrica posts over 1000 stories daily in English and French and offers a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in the searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997).

America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Contains abstracts/citations for articles from over 2,000 journals in history, the social sciences, and related humanities.