Subject Guide
Tips
- Need help? Ask a Librarian.Chat | IM | Text message | E-mail | Telephone -- Or come in and ask at a reference desk.
- Off-Grounds Access.Most databases are available only on Grounds, but ITC provides workarounds for home use.
- Refworks: Manage Your Research and Writing.A tool for managing a collection of articles and books for your research. Import the citation from one of our databases; export it into a footnote or bibliography.
- Library and ITC Accounts.Virgo | RefWorks | InterLibrary Services | Eservices | Proxy | UVaAnywhere | Home Directory | Wireless | Printing (Cavalier Advantage)
- Request a Purchase.Ask the Library to add a book, video, etc. to the UVa collections.
- Interlibrary Loan / LEO.Can't find what you need? Borrow the book, journal article, etc. from another Library.
Faculty: use LEO to have library materials delivered to your office.
Finding Journal Articles
Use Journal Finder on the library home page, or at the bottom of the Virgo search screen, to determine our online access for a particular journal title and to search a particular journal's contents.
- America: History & Life (1964-present) This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowFind articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, published in over 2,000 journals from many countries. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see America: History & Life.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowOlder issues of scholarly journals, from the start to 3-5 years ago.
- Africa-Wide Information This link opens in a new windowCompiled by NISC in South Africa, Africa-Wide Information is an aggregation of nearly 50 databases sourced from Africa, Europe and the U.S. This comprehensive database collection integrates content from NISC’s South African Studies, African Studies and African HealthLine databases. Africa-Wide Information provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary information documenting research and publications by Africans and about Africa. This database comprises more than 3.5 million media reports, scholarly articles, books, theses, citations and document abstracts dating back to the 16th century.
Finding Books
VIRGO-- The U.Va. Library Catalog
Keyword search should be "Google-like," just enter whatever terms you want; no need for connectors like and.
Will search the title, author's name or description of the item.
There are also some Subject terms that indicate primary source materials:
Archives*
Correspondence*
Diaries*
Early works to 1800
Facsimilies
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Pamphlets
Personal narratives (used in relation to specific events only)
Songs and music
Sources
Speeches, addresses, etc.*
Treaties
*Used with individuals' names,classes of persons (e.g., soldiers), and organizations.
Google Books Searches the full text of thousands of books. If used in conjunction with Amazon.com full text search of a book, can get most of the text of a book.
Primary Sources
- Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Time Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1923 of the American popular magazine Time, published by Time Inc.
- Readers' Guide to Periodical LiteratureCall Number: AI3 .R48Publication Date: 1900-1990Index to popular and some scholarly periodicals, many of which are not indexed online.
- HistoryMakers Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowAround 150,000 stories are assembled here from life oral history interviews with 2,700 historically significant African Americans including politicians, religious leaders, athletes, musicians, civil rights activists, soldiers, and many more.
- Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new windowGallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll.
- NAACP Papers This link opens in a new windowDigital collection of the NAACP’s archive of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the U.S. It covers the organization’s involvement in crucial civil rights issues such as lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, housing, etc.
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowText of and responses to over 35,000 survey questions from over 14,000 polls taken in the US and 80 other countries since 1986.
Image Collections
- Life Magazine Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Life Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1936 of the American variety magazine Life, published by Time Inc.
- African PhotographyShowcases the work of West and Central African indigenous photographers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created by Jürg Schneider, a researcher affiliated with the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel, and Rosario Mazuela, who cofounded African Photography Initiatives.
- Archive of Malian PhotographyProvides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali.
- Photography Legacy ProjectPortal to the work of African photographers "to ensure that significant collections of African photography can remain on the continent and made widely accessible for education and research."
- Autograph ABP’s Archive & Research CentreAutograph ABP is a London-based charity that works internationally in photography and film, cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. Patrons include Henry Louis Gates, Harvard-based historian of Africana.