Sample Subject Headings for Books Via ROGER

Also try Keyword searching on ROGER; check the records of books found for subject headings.

Articles via Periodical Indexes and Bibliographies

Off-campus use of these databases is by UC faculty, staff, and students only, from computers connected through UCSD. If you are a UCSD faculty, staff, or student but are connecting to the Web through another Internet Service Provider (e.g., AOL, Roadrunner, Cox AtHome), you'll need to go through UCSD's Proxy Server to access these databases.

Academic Universe [UCSD Only]
Includes thousands of full-text newspapers & other news sources, newsletters, magazines, trade journals; also business information, law journals, court decisions. Coverage dates vary. Good for current events, company background. Also known as LEXIS-NEXIS.
http://sshl.ucsd.edu/universe/universe.html

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century [UCSD Only]
Full text of 6 newspapers: Freedom's Journal (1827); Colored American (1837-1841); North Star (1847-51); National Era (1847-53); Provincial Freeman (1854-57); Frederick Douglass Paper (1851-52); Christian Recorder (1861-1902). Some years incomplete.
http://srch.accessible.com/cgi-bin/accessible/verify.pl

America: History and Life [UCSD Only]
1964-present. Comprehensive international database for research on all periods of U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to the current decade. Includes abstracts of journal articles and listings of books and dissertations.
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List of periodicals indexed

Black Studies on Disc On Reference CDROM Network [Library Only]

Ethnic NewsWatch [UCSD Only]
1990-present. Full text of U.S. ethnic community newspapers, newsletters, and magazines. Searchable in English and Spanish.
http://www.softlineweb.com/softlineweb/ethnic.htm

IIBP: International Index to Black Periodicals [UCSD Only]
Citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean (as far back as 1902)--and full-text coverage of over 20 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
http://iibp.chadwyck.com

Sociological Abstracts [UCSD Only]
1963-present. Abstracts journal articles, monographs, dissertations, conference proceedings, other research covering sociology, social work, and related social sciences. Also includes selected web resources.
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Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms

JSTOR
This archive of older articles lets you specify dates as well as the type of article you want. After typing your terms in the search box be sure to pull down the menu next to the box to indicate what kind of search you want (e.g., full text, title, author). Click on the journal subject categories you wish to search in, then click Search. You can then view the articles one at a time.

Because the articles are scanned-in images rather than text files, you cannot cut and paste from them or email them. Downloading and printing are difficult. The library subscribes to most of JSTORąs journals. If you want to copy an article, write down the title, journal, date, and page number, locate the journal in the stacks, and photocopy it

California Digital Library Databases
Pull down the Choose a Database menu and pick a database relevant to your topic; e.g., Anthropological Literature, ArtAbstracts, and MLA (for literature).

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)
PCI is an index to thousands of older social sciences and humanities journals. Type your search terms in the General Keyword box, using AND and OR when appropriate (e.g., islam and middle ages). Click the Exclude Book Reviews button at the bottom; you may also wish to type English in the Language box. Then click Search at the top.

PCI does not have full text, and includes journals UCSD doesnąt carry. Copy or print all the information for anything you want, and search ROGER for the journal title to see if we have it.

Don't forget to check any books found for bibliographies (look in the table of contents or at the ends of individual chapters); this is often an excellent source for articles as well as books. Ask at Reference if you need help.

Web Resources

African American History and Culture, Library of Congress Manuscripts
Guide to the Library of Congress' collection of manuscripts having to do with African American History and culture. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/african.html

AFRO-American Almanac
A factual record of African American culture with well-organized links to other African American history and culture sites.
http://www.toptags.com/aama/

American Memory—Library of Congress: African American Perspectives
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

AP Photo Archive
Includes Associated Press's current-year photo report and a selection from a 50-million image print and negative library dating from 1844-present. Currently contains about 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995.
http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/

Resources for Research in African American Studies
List of links compiled by the African American Studies Librarians Section of the American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/acrl/afas/web.html

UCSD Ethnic Studies Department
The UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies emphasizes comparative, analytic, and relational study of ethnicity and race in the United States. Our fields of emphasis include intercultural communication and conflict, population histories of America, ethnicity and identity, immigration and assimilation, ethnic politics and social movements, race and racism, urban ethnicity, gender and ethnicity, intellectual and cultural histories of ethnic groups, cultural pluralism, national integration, language and ethnic life, and mass media representations of ethnic identity.
http://www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/

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