African American African Diaspora Studies

Other Sources

Finding Book Reviews

In addition to the sources below, many article indexing databases actually allow you to limit your search to only book reviews by checking a box. Reviews can also be found by simply adding the word "review" to your search string. For example: women and United States and review. If you are searching for the review of a particular title try searching by that title or author.

Book Review Digest Plus and Book Review Digest Retrospective (via Wilson Web)
Indexes book reviews from a variety of subject areas including many peer-reviewed AAADS journals. Reviews written 1905-present. An index with abstracts, may lead to full-text.

Find Brief Biographical Entries (that may lead to more extensive sources)

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
"Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor"-- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) Website. Includes citation only does not include full-text.

Biography Resource Center
"This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search"--Biography Resource Center (Gale) Website.

Literature Resource Center
"Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available." (from website)

Finding Dissertations and Theses (excellent source for "chasing footnotes")

Dissertations and Theses
Includes full-text of the first 24 pages of many of the dissertations and some items can be downloaded in entirety, free of charge. Use Illiad (inter-library loan) to request entire dissertation.

Additional Resources

African-American Resources at the University of Virginia
"This site contains an initial online group of texts of documents and images relating to slavery assembled by a special seminar of the Rare Books Division of the University of Virginia."

Academic Info: African-American History: An Annotated Resource of Internet Resources on Black History
"This extensive listing provides quality sites on African-American history for researchers, university students, and teachers. It lists and briefly describes meta-indexes, digital libraries and archives, online publications, museum presentations, library and archival catalogs, resources for teaching and some topics such as Martin Luther King, jazz, and slavery. It is a fine source for locating primary materials. The directory is created and kept updated by Academic Info, a private organization compiling subject indexes for respected Web sites on a wide range of topics." (Taken From Trinkle, Dennis A. and Scott A. Merriman. The History Highway 2000: A Guide to Internet Resources. Armonk, New York: M.E Sharpe, 2000.)

Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography on InfoTrac 
"The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present. It includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which lists detailed information on over 5,500 journals, including over 4,400 indexed in the Bibliography." (from website).  For guidance on using this resource, please view this tutorial.

If you have any questions, comments, or would like research help, please contact Stephen Towne, AAADS Library Liaison.

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