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Learn how to find reference books in the library catalog.
General
- The African-American Almanac Ref. E185 .A252
- African-American Orators Ref. E185.96 .A447 1996
- African Americans and Political Participation Ref. E185 .A2538 2003
- Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Ref. DT14 .A37435 2005
- Atlas of African-American History Ref. E185 .C55 2001
- Chronology of African-American History Ref. E185 .H64 1991
- Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement Ref. E185.61 .D64 1992
- Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara Ref. DT351 .E53 1997
- Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights Ref. E185.61 .E54 1992
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History Ref. E185 .E54 1996
- Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation Ref. E449 .W84 1993
Biography
- African American Lives Ref. E185.96 .A446 2004
- American National Biography Ref. E176 .A593 1999
- Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia Ref. E186.86 .B542 1993
- Current Biography Yearbook Ref. CT100. C8
- Contemporary Black Biography Ref. E185.96 .C66
- Notable Black American Women Ref. E185.96 .N68 1992
Literature
- African American writers Ref. PS153 .N5 A344 2001
- Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955 Ref. PN451 .D537 v.33
- Afro-American Poets Since 1955 Ref. PN451 .D537 v.41
- Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers Ref. PN451 .D537 v.38
- Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance Ref. PS153 .N5 A24 2003
- Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion Ref. PS153 .N5 H245 2003
- Masterpieces of African-American Literature Ref. PS153 .N5 M264 1992
- Masterplots II. African American Literature Series Ref. PS152 .N5 M2645 1994
- Oxford Companion to African American Literature Ref. PS153 .N5 O96 1997
- Toni Morrison Encyclopedia Ref. PS3563 .O8749 Z913 2003
To find books on a given subject, search GIL, the online library catalog.
Perform a Keyword Search when you want to match your term with the same term in a certain field of the database, such as Author, Title, Subject, or Series. You can also attempt to match your term as a Keyword (Title/Subject), which will cause the GIL search engine to look in the Title and Subject fields of the record, or you can try to match your term anywhere in the record by selecting Keyword Anywhere.
Use the Exact Search option if you know the exact term you want to match, such as title, author name, or subject. Also, if you know the beginning part of the term, such as the first word of a title or the first few letters of an author's name, you can use the Exact Search option to find the full form of your term. If you are have trouble finding the material you need using a certain subject term, you can also use Exact Search to find what is called a valid Library of Congress Subject Heading, as well as subheadings for that subject term. For instance, if you attempt to find literary criticism using "Literary Criticism" as a subject term, you will find the the valid Library of Congress Subject Heading for "Literary Criticism" is simply "Criticism".
Suggested Library of Congress Subject Headings for African American Studies:·
- African Americans
- African Americans Biography
- African Americans Civil rights
- African Americans History
- African American Art
- African American authors Biography
- African American Families
For a complete list of the headings for this topic used in the GUC GIL catalog, go to the Exact Search page, select Search In: Subject Heading, and enter African Americans in the search box. Sub-headings will appear under the main heading.
In addition to the materials located in the library, GGC provides you with access to some 26,000 full-text electronic books through netLibrary. You can access netLibrary through GALILEO, through GIL, or visit http://netlibrary.com/.
Note: You need to set up a netLibrary account before you can use netLibrary books. However, it is free and only involves filling out a simple form. See our Ebook/netLibrary guide or ask a librarian for more information. netLibrary uses Library of Congress Subject Headings as well, so try the examples given above.
The Georgia Gwinnett College Library collects series of books in many subject areas, both in print and in netLibrary.
Learn how to find books by series title in the library catalog.
Use GALILEO databases to find articles. The following databases are a good place to start your search.
If you would like to find out if a particular journal is available electronically, use GALILEO's Journals A-Z. Georgia Gwinnett College Library does not subscribe to all of the databases that UGA subscribes to. Therefore, if you are not a UGA student, you may not have access to some of the databases that are presented in the results of a search in the EJL.
JSTOR (full-text) JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues of core journal titles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. - Project Muse (full-text)
Project Muse provides online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. 
Academic Search Premier (full-text) provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 publications, as well as full text for over 3,200 scholarly journals and general magazines. Coverage: 1984 – present. - Research Library (full-text) is a multidisciplinary database that covers more than 1,600 publications. Coverage: 1986-present (citations and abstracts); 1991-present (full text for selected publications).
- Humanities Full Text (full-text)
Full text articles in the Humanities from Wilson OmniFile. - Social Sciences Full Text (full-text)
Full text articles in the Social Sciences from Wilson OmniFile. - Original Sources (full-text)
A comprehensive compilation of more than 350,000 primary source documents, complete books, and authentic images. - Black Drama (full-text)
Text of 1,200 plays (almost a quarter of which previously unpublished), written by more than 300 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and other locations. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The Atlanta Constitution (full-text)
Full text of the Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1925. - ProQuest Historic Newspapers - The New York Times (full-text)
Full text of the complete run of the New York Times, 1851-2001. - ProQuest Newspapers (full-text)
Provides full-text access to five major national newspapers. Coverage includes full-text articles but not advertisements, illustrations, or photographs. - netLibrary (full-text electronic books)
netLibrary provides access to over 15,000 electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. Titles may be checked out for on-screen viewing for four hours. NOTE: Each individual user must create a personal user name and password. - Opposing Viewpoints (full-text)
This database presents both sides of arguments on controversial topics. - African American Biographical Database (full-text)
Brings together the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. - African-American Poetry: 1760-1900 (full-text)
Provides access to the full text of the works of nearly 3,000 poems by 54 African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 (full-text)
Comprised of photostatic copies from the Freedman's Bureau records held by the National Archives, consists of letters, affidavits, reports and a newspaper clipping relating to a violent episode in Camilla, Georgia.
Print Journals and Magazines Located at the GGC Library
Learn how to find print periodicals in the library catalog.
- Ebony
- Journal of Southern History
- Southern Humanities Review
- Southern Literary Journal
For more information, see Find Articles.
Use caution when selecting web sites to use for research purposes. Search engines such as Google can provide access to web sites relevant to your research, but it is necessary to investigate the authoritativeness of your search results.
Pay attention to certain details:
- Who created the site?
- Are their credentials made available?
- When was the site last updated?
- What is the purpose of the site?
- Is the site trying to sell you something or convince you of something?
For a web site containing high quality, carefully reviewed articles on every imaginable subject, please have a look at SKS Web Select.
UGA Libraries Research Central is a hierarchical guide to subject matter available electronically from UGA.
General
- African American Health Network Site designed to facilitate and encourage interactive education for people of color and to give one stop access to education, information technologies and health resources for the adults and youth.
- African-American History A wide-ranging guide from the University of Kansas, covering many subjects over a long period.
- African American History & Studies Directory of Online Resources. Links to many resources about African American history.
- African American Web Connection has a broad collection of links to sites in categories such as authors, churches, history, and entertainment.
- African American Organizations A directory of organizations of many types.
- Afro-American Almanac provides access to historical documents, biographies, folk tales, and more.
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History ASALH was founded in 1915 as a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to research on the African American past and to the dissemination of knowledge about the African American in the new world.
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment.
- King Encyclopedia Online reference covering the life of Martin Luther King.
- NAACP Founded in 1909, the NAACP has been leading the effort for social justice for nearly 100 years. Anyone who supports the mission of the NAACP irrespective of race, religion, political affiliation and ideology can become a member of the Association.
- National Black Nurses Association The NBNA was organized in 1971 as a non-profit organization that represents some 150,000 African American nurses from the USA, Eastern Caribbean and Africa, with 76 chartered chapters nationwide. NBNA's mission is to provide a forum for collective action by African American nurses to "investigate, define and determine what the health care needs of African Americans are and to implement change to make available to African Americans and other minorities health care commensurate with that of the larger society."
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Part of the New York Public Library; includes African American Women Writers of the 19th Century and images of African Americans from the 19th Century.
- Slavery An excellent guide from Stanford University covering slavery in Africa and America.
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference The SCLC is a movement of people and for the people, growing out of the deep tradition and long history of struggle for basic human rights. This movement is grounded in the philosophy of nonviolent resistance based on the lives and teachings of leaders such as Jesus Christ and Mohandas Gandhi. It is a movement that also has roots in the larger history of liberation struggles by Black people and all oppressed peoples the world over.
Be sure to visit our Guide to Evaluating Web Sites before choosing a website as a source for research!
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