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Trial access has been established for Africa-Wide: NiPAD Via Biblioline.

Trial is available through February 24, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: Africa-Wide: NiPAD

Africa-Wide: NiPAD (NISC information, Publications and African Databases) provides access to over 30 database files from three continents. It includes multi-disciplinary coverage about politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues,anthropology, natural history, literature, language, law, music and much more.

Sources indexed include theses, dissertations, journals, current research, popular magazines, reviews, monographs, pamphlets, government publications, maps, microforms, newspapers, books, and music recordings.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 1:37 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for African American Studies through Oxford University Press.

Trial is available through February 16, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: African American Studies

NOTE: Access is via IP Authentication and can only be accessed on-campus only

The Oxford African American Studies provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, published in March 2005, the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center also includes content from much-anticipated forthcoming print publications including the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 10:53 AM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for African American Experience Through Greenwood.

Trial is available through february 19, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: African American Experience

Username: syracuse
Password: library

Note: Access Oncampus is via IP Authentication

African American Experience is the widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 300 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 4:41 PM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Black Studies Center through Proquest.

Trial is available through March 8, 2007.

To access the database, point your browser to: Black Studies Center
Password: syracuse

The Black Studies Center is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.

The Black Studies Center is the resource you’ve been waiting for—a digital core collection of primary and secondary sources that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times.

For more information, contact Bonnie Ryan.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 11:48 AM | Permalink