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Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost) R
Academy of American Poets
Description: Many links to sites of African American poets.
African American Biographical Database R
Description: A rich resource of biographical sketches of African Americans, historic photographs and illustrations, and profiles of significant political movements and organizations from 1790 to 1950. Includes narratives of former slaves, artists, homemakers, political activists, religious workers and scientists.
African American Historical Serials Collection (EBSCO Support Site) R
Description: Centralized resource contains "[m]ore than 170 unique titles related to African American life and culture; Approximately 60,000 pages of searchable primary source content; Reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals; Extensive coverage of African American religious organizations, churches and institutions."
African American Studies Websites
Description: A directory of Internet sites addressing major issues that impact African American life and culture.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Description: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg at New York Public Library.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (EBSCO Support Site) R
Description: Covers such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues from 650 journals; 14,000 multi-author works; and book review citations. Number of simultaneous logons: 4.
Black Drama R
Description: Full text of selected plays by writers from America, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the entire African Diaspora, from Victorian times to the present. Accompanying the texts are details on production companies, theaters and cast lists.
Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948 - 1986 (Schomburg Center, New York Public Library) R
Description: Bibliographic data drawn from the handwritten notes of librarians and other staff of the Schomburg Center from 1948 until 1986. --> Number of simultaneous logons: 1.
Contemporary Authors -> Use Literature Resource Center R
Description: Accessible online from several local public libraries: DC PL, Arlington County PL, PG County PL, Montgomery County PL, and Fairfax County PL --- All you need is a FREE library card at the public library of your choice --- To obtain a public library card, HU students who have not established permanent residency in DC or the neighboring jurisdictions must have a local area address, e.g., a Howard U residence hall.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select -> Use Literature Resource Center R
Description: Accessible online from several local public libraries: DC PL, Arlington County PL, PG County PL, Montgomery County PL, and Fairfax County PL --- All you need is a FREE library card at the public library of your choice --- To obtain a public library card, HU students who have not established permanent residency in DC or the neighboring jurisdictions must have a local area address, e.g., a Howard U residence hall.
Credo Reference R
Description: Access full text authoritative reference resources: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies and more.
Dictionary of Literary Biography -> Use Literature Resource Center R
Description: Accessible online from several local public libraries: DC PL, Arlington County PL, PG County PL, Montgomery County PL, and Fairfax County PL --- All you need is a FREE library card at the public library of your choice --- To obtain a public library card, HU students who have not established permanent residency in DC or the neighboring jurisdictions must have a local area address, e.g., a Howard U residence hall.
Ebrary R
Description: Access hundreds of full-text ebooks hosted on the ebrary platform. Ebooks via Ebrary does not require an external reader, create a personal Ebrary account for note taking/highlighting and to manage resources for research and/or share bookshelf content.
EbscoHost R
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Eighteenth Century
Description: Theoretical and interpretive research on all aspects of Western culture, 1660-1800. The editors take special interest in essays that apply innovative contemporary methodologies to the study of eighteenth-century literature, history, science, fine arts, and popular culture.
Electronic Journal Service R
Description: Search Ebscohost's gateway to thousands of e-journals by title, subject or keyword to link directly to full text articles. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Gale Databases R
Description: Portal access to the following databases: BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT,
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER, OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS IN CONTEXT, US HISTORY IN CONTEXT, WORLD HISTORY IN CONTEXT
Gale Virtual Reference Library R
Description: Access full text authoritative reference resources: encyclopedias, handbooks, biographies and more.
Google Scholar
Description: Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Description: H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource.
Index Translationum
Ingenta
Description: INGENTA supplies access to a comprehensive collections of 8,000 academic and professional publications. While many of the articles in its database are full-text, INGENTA also indicates other sources for full-text.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text R
Description: Current and retrospective bibliographic citations, abstracts and full text material from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 31 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
Internet Public Library
Description: A vast virtual library offering a variety of exhibits and educational materials, answers to reference questions, a browsable catalog of nearly 20,000 electronic texts, and an annotated guide to web sites. Try "Ask A Question," and an IPL dedicated volunteer will attempt to answer your question and guide you where to find the information.
INTUTE: Arts and Humanities
Description: INTUTE: Arts and Humanities pages. We are a free online service providing you with access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.
JSTOR R
Description: Description: Electronic access to a comprehensive archive of articles from journals in the arts, botany, business, education, ecology, economics, history, humanities, language & literature, mathematics, political science and social sciences.
Literati by Credo Reference R
Description: Literati is a discovery portal to authoritative content(encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, etc) as well as to other online library resources and print collections. These information resources are complied in context of various "Topic Pages" - brief summaries about a particular subject followed by a variety of pertinent resources embedded in the "Page". Tutorials about the research process and in how to identify and evaluate resources are also available.
Medieval Feminist Index
Description: The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
MLA Directory of Periodicals ( Ebscohost) R
Description: The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
MLA International Bibliography (Ebscohost) R
Description: Consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1963 to the present from nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
Muse, Project - See: Project Muse R
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) R
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. [Oxford University Press 2009]
Poets
Description: Includes biographies, photos, and other information on more than 450 poets, with new pages being added all the time.
Project Muse R
Description: Provides full text access to over 160 journals. Full text is accessible only for Johns Hopkins University Press journals; bibliographic information and abstracts are given for non JHUP publications.
Proquest Databases R
Proquest Dissertations and Theses R
Description: With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats.
Scopus R
Description: An abstracts and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources that offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Since its inception in 2004, it covers scientific, technical, medical and social science fields. Recently it has included arts and humanities literature as well.
Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century
Description: Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century Database of stage texts used in performances of Shakespeare's plays.
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
Description: "... an instructional World Wide Web site focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color."
Wikipedia
Writing Black
Description: Literature and history written by and on African Americans. Many links to Web resources.
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