Research Guides: UO Libraries Resources in partnership with the LRP Black Cultural Center: Academic Article Databases

Academic Research Introduction

The following boxes on this page highlight a curated set of article databases which may be of use for researching Black Culture around the world.

Art Research Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database of leading peer reviewed/scholarly journals covering the arts and sciences. Database is part of the Web of Science and provides information about the number of times an article has been cited.
International Bibliography of Art This link opens in a new window
Indexing and abstracting of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) from 2008 to the present.
Indexes journal articles, books,exhibition catalogs, conference procedings and dissertations and includes detailed abstracts . Topical coverage includes all traditional visual arts as well as new media, architectural history, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, classical studies and more. European art since late antiquity,American art since colonial times, and global art since 1945 are covered.

Literature & Film Research Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical materials for scholarship in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Covers essay collections, dissertations, monographs and peer reviewed/scholarly journals.
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television.
Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

Music Research Databases

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music. The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. This database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. .

Social Sciences Databases

AfricaBib.org This link opens in a new window
English language database indexing articles from multi-lingual journals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. Includes the following bibliographic databases: Africana periodical literature, African women, Women Travelers to Africa, Islam in Africa, Kenya Coast, Water & Africa, & Education in Africa.
AfricaBib.org. Africana Periodical Literature This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals from 29 African countries. Organized into broad subject areas (Economics, Education, Law, Literature, Politics, Transportation, etc.).
African Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Database of African-published journals covering a wide range of scholarship and includes a number of Open Access journals that are freely available to everyone.
Browse the content of these Open Access journals or search across all content, but search results will contain citations and abstracts for content to which we do not subscribe.
America: History & Life This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database containing citations to articles on the history, culture and current affairs of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
HAPI This link opens in a new window
Selectively indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, focussing on Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly articles covering world history (with the exception of the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present
PRISMA database This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to both the Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Index. The database can be searched by words in article titles and abstracts, by author, by journal, and to look for cited references.

Further Resources for Academic Articles

UO Libraries has many additional subject-focused research guides which can help you research anything from physics to theater, with well-curated lists of databases for finding scholarly / peer-reviewed journal articles. You can find these by following these links to the subject based research guides, or by searching through our full list of databases:

Research Guides by Subject
UO Libraries Subject-Based Research Guides
Databases A-Z
All of the databases subscribed to by the UO Libraries
Trial Databases at the UO Libraries
Due to COVID-19, many databases have given the UO Libraries free access to amazing content. Note: you need to be logged into the UO VPN / Off-campus proxy software to use most of these.