Black History Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Yvonne Mulhern
Reference Department - Office 110B
phone: 254-968-9934
email: mulhern@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing at reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
AH Search - Arts and Humanities Search is under FirstSearch Supplement under Databases. This is an online Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Handbook of Texas - This is the full-text electronic version of the reference work.
History Cooperative - full-text online access to several historical journals.
JSTOR - includes links to journals in African American Studies.
Lexis Nexis -Try Lexis Nexis "Reference" for the full text of historically important Polls and Surveys.
Periodicals Archive Online - Periodicals Archive Online indexes periodicals back to the late 18th century. There are no full text articles and the indexing does not come up the the present time, but it's useful for coverage of historical topics.
Additional information may be obtained using the broad topic databases, such as Academic Search Complete.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- Electronic Journals by Category (Subject).
- Electronic Journals by title.
- Internet Links: including guides, exhibits, links and suggested readings
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