AFS 3010 Introduction to African Studies
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General

• Academic Search Premier
  Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.

• Anthropology Plus
  Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

• AnthroSource
  Provides digital access to current issues regarding 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review; A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003; Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications; Newsletters and bulletins.

• Arts and Humanities Search
  Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals.

• ATLA Religion Database  
  The ATLA Religion Database is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion.

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in over 3400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

• Biography Index 
  Biography Index is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.

• Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®  
  A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

• Contemporary Women's Issues
  CWI is a full-text database which includes information concerning women's issues worldwide. Major sources of information include Human Rights Watch, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, United States Government Reports, FEMNET and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

• Current Contents Connect
  Current Contents Connect provides access to current awareness research from seven broad disciplines.

• Digital Dissertations
  Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines. 

• Historical Abstracts
  Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life).

• Humanities Full Text
  Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

• Human Population & Natural Resource Management
  The database deals with issues arising from the conflict between the ever-increasing population of the Earth and the Earth's limited environmental and natural resources. Human Population & Natural Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.

• Human Relations Area Files: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
  A multi-cultural database.

• Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective 
  This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Subjects include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.

• JSTOR
  Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines).

• MLA International Bibliography
  The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

• Reference Guide to Africa: a Bibliography of Sources
  This is an electronic book full of resources that may be of use.  You can view this book for 15 minutes, or you can check out the book for 4 hours.  You will need to sign up for an account to check out an electronic book.  There are directions on the website.  Only one person can access this item at a time.  Not all the items can be found at the FAU library, but some may be available through the interlibrary loan office. 

• Social Sciences Full Text
  Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.

• Web of Science
  Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
  Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

• Women's Studies International
  This resource includes access to Women Studies Abstracts and Women's Studies Database.  Coverage includes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. [This database is restricted to one user at a time.]

• xreferplus
  xreferplus is an online reference library that provides access to a selection of 162 reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

 

Primary Resources

• Black Thought and Culture 
  This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.

• In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives 
  In the First Person is a new library index that lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases.  The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available. Every imaginable topic, historical event, and person is covered, from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th. And it will be updated quarterly. By the end of 2005, the index will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections-more than a million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.

• Original Sources  
  This site includes original source documents, critical selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.  It comprises more than 350,000 documents and more than 5,000 complete books.

• World Map Collections  
  World Map Collections are a cooperative project of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to make digitized modern and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean collections are particularly strong, but Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East are also represented. These are growing collections; new maps are added.

 

News and Statistics

• AccessUN
  Index to United Nations Documents including Official Records, masthead documents, and draft resolutions with full-text of several thousand UN documents.s.

• Access World News
  Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

• Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
  Indexes 300 alternative, radical, and left magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Articles cover cultural, economic, political, and social change.

• CountryWatch  
  Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.

• Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
  Features articles to ethnic, minority, and native magazines, journals, and newspapers.

• FACTS.com (Facts on File)
  Provides information about events, issues, statistics and people.

• GenderWatch
  A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides information on subjects such as family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas including the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to the mid 1970's; additional archival material continues to be added.

• WorldAlmanac
  A full text searchable database containing the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, World Almanac of the U.S.A. 1998, World Almanac of U.S. Politics 1997, and the World Almanac for Kids Dec. 1997  

 

Arts and Music

• Art Index Full Text
  Subjects include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, and Textiles. Full-text coverage for Art Index with Full Text begins in 1997.

• Art Index Retrospective
  Subjects include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, and Textiles.  Art Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984.

• ARTstor 
  ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and tools to actively use those images. [Click the "Search and Browse for Images" link in the lower left corner to enter the ARTstor Digital Library.  If you want to be able to make full use of ARTstor, you will need to register.  You may register on campus or off campus via EZproxy.]

• Groveart
  The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990's.

• Music Index  
  Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. 

• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians  
  Authoritative resource on all aspects of music. (Includes access to The Grove Dictionary of Opera Online.) 

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  
  RILM offers a broad international coverage base and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.

 

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