LibGuides: Ohio State Newark: African American and African Studies 2081, African American History from 1877: Journals & Databases

Recommended Databases for Secondary Sources

JSTOR [OSU] This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
America: History and Life [OSU] This link opens in a new window
Provides articles abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations...
Academic Search Complete [OSU] This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.

Black Studies Center
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more.

African American Communities This link opens in a new window
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and African American culture and identity.
African-American Experience This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of material (including source material) on the history and culture of African-Americans. Includes some audio content (interviews, songs, etc.)
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 [OSU] This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by or for African Americans are browseable and searchable.

Library of Congress Primary Source Sets
Black Studies Center
Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more.

The following links to an extensive list of research databases under the subject African American & African Studies:

Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) [OSU] This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis ®
—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types