Databases

This resource brings together more than 11,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora, published in 15 countries from the early 1900s onwards.  The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors.  Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.

A fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more. It combines essential resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the newspaper Chicago Defender.

British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century (the same periodicals as are covered in the UMI microfilm collection "Early British Periodicals"). It includes millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Subject areas covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.