Academic OneFile.  
LOCATION: Library Databases

An online database which provides references and/or abstracts to articles from more than 8,000 scholarly and general interest periodicals. It also provides the full text of many articles.

Biography Reference Bank.  
LOCATION: Library Databases

Full-text biographical profiles of people from antiquity to the present.

Biography Resource Center.  
LOCATION: Library Databases

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. The database includes entries from the following directories, which are also available in print: Contemporary Black Biography, Notable Black American Men, Notable Black American Women, the St. James Guide to Black Artists, and Who's Who Among African Americans.

Black Studies Center.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Black Studies Center contains essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, which features essays on various interdisciplinary topics written by leading academic experts; the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), which indexes current and retrospective Black Studies journals and newsletters and provides full-text coverage of core periodicals; the full-text backfile, from 1910 to 1975, of the Chicago Defender; ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies, which contains a thousand doctoral dissertations and Masters’ theses in Black Studies; and the Black Literature Index, an index to the Black Literature microfiche collection which references 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.

Britannica Online.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with links to quality Internet sites.

DELCAT.
LOCATION: Internet (http://delcat.udel.edu)

The University of Delaware online catalog includes entries for books, journals, databases, and other research materials in the University of Delaware Library. For additional information on finding African American historical information in DELCAT, see Searching DELCAT and Library of Congress Subject Headings, the final sections of this guide.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Contains the complete text of several major African American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

America: History and Life.  
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database (1982 to the present) covering scholarly journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations in United States and Canadian history.

Black Newspapers Index. Wooster, Ohio: UMI.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AI3 .I46)

An index (1977 to the present) devoted to African American newspapers. Newspapers indexed are: Afro-American (national edition), Amsterdam News (New York), Angus (St. Louis), Call and Post (Cleveland), Chicago Defender, Daily World (Atlanta), Journal and Guide (Norfolk), Michigan Chronicle (Detroit), Sentinel (Los Angeles), and the American Muslim Journal(Chicago).

Ethnic NewsWatch.  
LOCATION: Library Databases

A comprehensive, full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic press. It provides a rich collection of articles, editorials, and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives often at variance with the mainstream media. Coverage is from 1960 to the present.

Index to Black Periodicals. Boston: G.K. Hall.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AI3 .I59)

An annual author, title, and subject index to articles and book reviews by and about African Americans published in thirty-nine black journals from 1950 to the present. Formerly entitled Index to Periodical Articles by and about Blacks.

Index to Early American Periodicals.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides subject indexing to the periodicals included in the microfilm sets American Periodical Series: APS 1, 1700-1800, APS II, 1800-1850 (Microfilm S 10), and APS III, 1850-1900 (Microfilm S 10.5).

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 to the present), along with indexing and abstracting for over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean (1902 to the present).

Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson, 1992.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E185 .K35x 1992)

A five-volume index to newspaper and periodical articles, books and ephemera held in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The volumes have entries listed under an individual's name, organization, or subject area.

Newman, Richard. Black Index: Afro-Americana in Selected Periodicals, 1907-1949. New York: Garland, 1981.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AI3 .N485)

An index to periodical articles published about African Americans in popular and scholarly magazines from 1907 to 1949. (References from the Journal of Negro History have been excluded since that journal publishes its own index.) Access is by author and subject.

Periodicals Index Online.  
LOCATION: Library Databases

An online index to the contents of thousands of journals and magazines in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. The scope is international. Every article is indexed and some citations are linked to the full text in JSTOR.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Index to the Schomburg Clipping File. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E185 .S373x 1986)

An index to periodical and newspaper clippings contained in the Clipping File at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The Clipping File is also available on microfiche in the Morris Library (Microfiche No. 1583). The index provides access to individual names, organizations, and subjects.

LexisNexis Statistical.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Indexes and abstracts statistical publications, and includes links to the full text of selected publications on LexisNexis Statistical and government Web sites. The Tables Research Edition section provides quick access to selected statistical data. The more extensive Abstracts section indexes a larger collection of statistical publications (ASI, SRI, and IIS) that is available on microfiche in the Morris Library. One of the database's features permits searching for statistics that are broken down "By Race".

Smith, Jessie Carney, and Carrell Peterson Horton. Historical Statistics of Black America. 2 vols. New York : Gale Research, 1995. LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref E185 .H543 1995)

A two-volume compilation of historical statistics collected by federal and private sources.

United States Historical Census Data Browser.
LOCATION: Internet (http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/)

Demographic and economic data for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. Data for early years includes numbers of slaves, free "colored" families, and slaveholding families (both white and "colored".)

African American Studies: Guide to Internet Resources. (University of Delaware Library)
LOCATION: Internet (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/internet/)

• DELCAT uses the term African Americans when referring to black citizens of the United States and blacks when discussing black people internationally.
• When searching DELCAT, always start by conducting a keyword search for your specific historical topic, and then broaden your search to find additional material. For example, if you were researching Nat Turner's rebellion, you could search DELCAT for Nat Turner or Southampton Insurrection. For additional materials, you could search for slave insurrections.
• To obtain book-length autobiographies and biographies search DELCAT using the individual's name as a subject. For example, to locate books about Frederick Douglass, you would use the Browse feature of DELCAT, select 'Subject begins with', then type: douglass frederick
• To limit your search to primary source materials, conduct a keyword search using words that pertain to the format of the material. Format terms include: correspondence, diaries, letters, manuscripts, narratives, papers, sources and speeches. A sample keyword search: women slaves and narratives.

You may browse DELCAT using specific subject gs that refer to the topic that you are researching. For assistance in selecting headings to locate books, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings or ask a Reference Librarian. Below is a sample list of subject headings you might use:

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