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Frequently Used Resources
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Academic Search CompleteMultidisciplinary index and full text source for scholarly journals and magazines.
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AfricaBibBibliographic information for Africana social science resources including Africana periodical literature, African Women's literature, and Education in Africa.
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African Journals Online (AJOL)"AJOL provides free online hosting for over 500 peer-reviewed journals from 31 African countries, using open source software. AJOL's partner journals cover the full range of academic disciplines with particularly strong sections on health, agriculture and African studies."
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Africa Knowledge ProjectAfrica-centered journals, bibliographies, scholarly essays, art exhibitions, and poetry from a diverse range of disciplines.
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America: History & LifeIndex with abstracts to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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Historical AbstractsIndex with abstracts to more than 1,800 journals in 40 languages on world history from 1450 to the present; excludes the US and Canada.
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Race Relations AbstractsAbstracting for the top academic journals, books, periodicals and newspapers in the field of race relations.
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JMU Library CatalogFind journals, books, ebooks, films, sound recordings, and government documents available to JMU users.
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WorldCatCatalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide that includes manuscripts written as early as the 1000 B.C., books, audio visual media, and internet source
Local Collections
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Black Comic Book CollectionA guide to Black comic book collections and resources in Special Collections at JMU Libraries.
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Celebrating Simms: The Story of the Lucy F. Simms School"The online companion to the permanent exhibition that celebrates the life of pioneering African-American educator, Lucy F. Simms, and the school named in her honor."
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Furious Flower Archive"Now in its third decade, the Furious Flower Poetry Center (FFPC) has been a driving force in showcasing, promoting, and analyzing African American poetry nationally and internationally."
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Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia"This website focuses on telling the stories of all the known lynching victims who were killed in Virginia between 1866 and 1932, most of them African American men."