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Research Practices
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Conducting research through an anti-racism lensA guide for "incorporating an anti-racist lens at all stages of the research life cycle" by librarians at the University of Minnesota. Topics include primary research, secondary research, scholarly publishing, search algorithms, and cataloging systems.
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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HistoryMakers Digital ArchivesVideo archive of African American oral histories documenting the men and women who have made significant contributions to American life, history, and culture during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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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 Firsts at JMU"This living digital archive originated in the course “Black Studies and Black Spaces: Black Critical Frameworks and Communities at JMU and Beyond, 1968 to the Present” and continues to grow, with research and support from AAAD minors, graduate students, JMU faculty, and alumni."
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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."