African American Music Reference brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.

A full-text collection of African American newspapers providing information about cultural life and history during the 1800s. This collection is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The database also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 was created from the African American newspaper archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Beginning with Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American newspaper published in the United States, this database includes newspapers from every region of the U.S.

African American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The online version of the Heinemann African Writers Series, including over 230 volumes of drama, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by African writers.

Aluka is an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.

Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Black Short Fiction is the most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories

Black Studies Center combines current and historical resources for research and teaching in Black studies

When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present.

Race Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

A fully searchable Library of literary works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, key criticism and reference resources.

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.

Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Arts and humanities database on language and literature, music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the study of art and architecture.

Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.