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African and African American Studies
Library Contact: Daniel F Ring
Department Contact: Vince Khapoya

FINDING BOOKS

Voyager Library Catalog

WorldCat


FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Humanities

Art Abstracts

Historical Abstracts (Index and abstracts of scholarly publications in history except for the U.S. and Canada)

Humanities Abstracts

MLA Bibliography(good for both African and Black American literature)

Project Muse(full text articles in the humanities)

America: History and Life

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social Science Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

Web of Science(SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION Index)

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online (source for theory and research in int'l affairs)

Cross Disciplinary

Essay and General Literature Index

JSTOR(backfiles of full text journals;go to "advanced" and click on African Studies or African American Studies)

WilsonSelectPlus (fulltext articles for a college audience)

Academic Onefile

Google Scholar

 

If an article you locate in one of these databases doesn't provide a full text link, try:
Searching the Library Catalog for the title of the journal the article appears in:
  Online Only
Logging in and requesting the article through Interlibrary Loan:
OU email:

@oakland.edu

Password:

PATHFINDERS

African History

African Politics

Black Americans

Civil Rights Movement

Middle East Politics

Art and Art History

NB all pathfinders identify important titles in the reference collection and internet sites.

OTHER RESOURCES

OU Department Of Political Science

OU Department of History

OU Department of Art and Art History

African Studies Association

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

 

Internet Resources not noted in pathfinders

International Document Collection

*Access to Library Databases is restricted to on campus use or off campus use by current OU faculty, staff, and students. Public Databases offer unrestricted access from any location.