Library Resources for ENGL515 Major Black Authors Professor: Dr. Rashidah Jaami' Muhammad  By Diane Dates Casey

General Information

• Library Information for Humanities Students - General information about using the Governors State University Library.
• Governors State University Library - Main page for GSU Library Web site.

Online Library Catalog

• GSU Online Catalog - The web version of GSU Library Online Catalog where books, videos, sound recordings, computer files can be found.  Also, the titles of the journals owned by GSU can be identified with a title search.

Indexes for Journal Articles

• MLA Bibliography  Indexes language and literary journals.

Full-text Journal Article Databases 

• Academic Search Complete
• FirstSearch
• JSTOR
• Oxford English Dictionary  Click on Enter OED Online.
• Project MUSE
• ProQuest  

While the above links are only a sampling of GSU's full-text databases, they probably will contain the articles relevant to this assignment, if they are full-text online.  To determine which database might contain an article in full-text go to the Full-text Journals List.

Web Resources for Major Black Authors 
The following links may have information relevant to course assignments:  

• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• Blackwriters.org
• African American Books 
• Life and Literature, PBS Series on the Givens Collection
• Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection (Chicago Public Library)
• Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
• Women of Color, Women of Words: African American Female Playwrights
• Texts By and About African Americans, University of Virginia
• VoS - Voice of the Shuttle - Minority Literatures
• Voices From the Gaps
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Pulitzer Prizes in Drama
• Nobel Prize for Literature 

Interlibrary Loan
When books and journal articles are unavailable through I-Share or not included in GSU's print or full-text online journals collections, place an Interlibrary Loan Request for the materials at the Reference Desk in the library or online.

• Request a Book via Interlibrary Loan
• Request a Journal Article via Interlibrary Loan

Resources for Writing Research Papers

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