American Studies Resources

Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. This resource indexes over 4300 periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

America History and Life
America: History and Life is a comprehensive bibliography of articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. AHL offers abstracts and citations for articles appearing in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. The database also includes citations to book reviews from approximately 140 major journals of American history and culture, and relevant dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.

Black Studies on Disc [Information Center CD-Rom]
Contains information on materials by and about African Americans, Africa and peoples of African ancestry. The database is based on the holdings of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of The New York Public Library and the world's leading library of materials relating to the African diaspora. Also included are periodical citations from G. K. Hall & Co.'s Index to Black Periodicals (1989-1993), covering a broad range of popular magazines and scholarly journals.

Social Sciences Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. (1994-)

Social Sciences Citation Index (1980 - )
The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the database.

Humanities International Complete
Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering 1700 journals, as well as books and reference sources in the humanities. All data from American Humanities Index is included with the addition of international coverage. This database provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs, paintings and illustrations are also referenced.

Readers' Guide Abstracts
Readers' Guide Abstracts is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospectiveis a database indexing 256 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. The database covers the years 1890 through 1982.

Reference Sources

See other resource guides in this series for particular subjects/disciplines for the area of American Studies that you are working in, especially:

Government Information Resources (Old URL: http://lbis.kenyon.edu/govdocs/govinfo/ )
Legal Resources (Old URL: http://lbis.kenyon.edu/subj/lgls/ )
Anthropology Resources (Old URL: http://lbis.kenyon.edu/subj/anth/ )
Sociology Resources (Old URL: http://lbis.kenyon.edu/subj/socy/)

Electronic Journals

OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center: Social Sciences Journals
Includes the full text of social sciences journals from Elsevier, Academic Press Project Muse, Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic. Browse by related discipline, then journal title.

JSTOR
Provides access to the full content of a variety of scholarly journals. Coverage generally begins with volume one of a journal, and ends 2-5 years from the present. Journals may be browsed or searched.

Selected Internet Sites

American Memory Collections
American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and cultural developments of the United States.

Voice of the Shuttle : Area and Regional Studies includes the Voice of the Shuttle: American Studies Page