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Table of Contents:
 Databases
Reference Sources
Internet Resources and Websites
Government Resources
Archival Catalogs
Search databases and indexes to find citations and/or full text for online articles, books, images, or statistics.
Academic Search Complete
     
Large multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and select full text of scholarly and popular publications in a wide variety of subject disciplines, including art, literature, education, history, sociology, science, and engineering. Because of its broad subject and full text coverage, Academic Search Complete is a good starting point for research on virtually any topic.
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Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1,200 journals. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
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JSTOR
Full text access to complete back runs of scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage for most journals does not include the last 3-5 years. Users can search across the entire database or limit their search to journals in specific subject disciplines.
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LexisNexis Academic
Full text access to a wide range of news, business, and legal information. News resources include major U.S. and world newspapers and magazines, TV and radio transcripts, newswires, and blogs. Business resources include industry and market
news, company profiles and SEC filings, and country profiles and business conditions. Legal resources include law reviews and
journals, U.S. case law, codes and statutes.
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MasterFile Premier
Multidisciplinary database offering full text articles from popular magazines, newspapers, and some peer-reviewed journals. Also includes biographies, maps, world facts, and definitions from general reference books.
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New York Times Historical (Proquest)
Full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2007. Recent issues available thru Lexis-Nexis. Additional holdings.
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Project MUSE
Full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences primarily covering the fields of literature, history, cultural studies, political science, religion, and the arts.
(Books are not available yet)
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Social Sciences Full Text
Enjoy fast access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere with full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
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Encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other reference works available in print or online.
Africa South of the Sahara
  
Location: 1st Fl Reference DT 351 .A37 2004
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Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions
Location: 1st Fl Reference BL 2462.5 .E53 2001
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Encyclopedia of African History
Location: 1st Fl Reference DT 20 .E53 2005, 3 vols.
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Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations
Location: 1st Fl Reference DT 14 .E43 2002
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World Almanac
Location: 1st Fl Reference AY 64 .N5 W7 2007
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World Factbook
U.S. government website of profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and military. However, a print edition available at the Reference Desk.
Location: Reference Desk 1st Fl G 122 .U56a 2001
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Resources freely available on the Internet.
African History--Primary Resources
A list of primary resources with links created by Stanford University.
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African Studies Center
The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania brings together researchers and students, along with cultural, business and media entities, to gain knowledge of contemporary and historical Africa. The site provides documents, images, and maps. It is organized into country pages with numerous links to government, media, and commercial-based resources.
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Archives and Primary Resources for the Study of Africa: Research Strategies and Web Resources
A list of archival and primary resources for the Study of Africa created by Boston University.
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Internet African History Sourcebook
A list of sources on African history created by Fordham University.
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Primary Resources of Africa
A list of primary resources about Africa created by Indiana University. Topics include: General information, Bibliographies, News, Audio/Visual material. Digital Collections, Statistics, Archives and Guides to Archives
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UCLA's African Studies Center
The James S. Coleman African Studies Center is dedicated to the production and dissemination of knowledge about Africa, ranging from cutting-edge research in the social, human and natural sciences to K-12 outreach and pedagogical reform
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World Factbook
U.S. government website of profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and military. However, a print edition available at the Reference Desk.
Location: Reference Desk 1st Fl G 122 .U56a 2001
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Information resources provided by federal, state, or city governments.
World Factbook
U.S. government website of profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, and military. However, a print edition available at the Reference Desk.
Location: Reference Desk 1st Fl G 122 .U56a 2001
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Search archival catalogs to locate primary source documents such as organizational records, manuscripts, letters, diaries, and photographs found in archival repositories.
Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
Online catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) nationwide holdings in the Washington DC area, Regional Archives, and Presidential Libraries.
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Archives USA
Directory providing detailed information about archival and primary source collections from over 5,500 U.S. repositories. NOTE: This is a New York Public Library Resource. Only available on-site at the following NYPL branches: Humanities and Social Sciences Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Science, Industry and Business Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. For more information, visit the New York Public Library
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National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Catalog of over 500,000 records describing archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, state and federal agencies, museums, and historical societies throughout the world.
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Repositories of Primary Resources
A directory of archival repositories worldwide with links to websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.
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WorldCat
Union catalog containing records of library holdings all over the world. Use WorldCat to locate books, journals, audio and video recordings, and archival materials held by other libraries. If an item you want is not available at CUNY simply click "Find It" to request an interlibrary loan.
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