Librarians
Celestina Savonius-Wroth
History and Religious Studies
cswroth@illinois.edu
Peg Burnette
Disability Studies
phburn@illinois.edu
Jessica Hagman
Anthropology and Archaeology
jhagman@illinois.edu
Atoma Batoma
African Studies
batoma@illinois.edu
Elias Petrou
Classics, Ancient History, Medieval Studies
epetrou@illinois.edu
Steve Witt
Asian Studies
swwitt@illinois.edu
Bing Wang
Chinese Studies
bingw@illinois.edu
Laila Hussein Moustafa
Middle East & North African Studies
lhoussei@illinois.edu
Article Indexes
- Historical AbstractsJournal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of world history, excluding North America, from 1450. Includes links to the full text of some articles. Complements America: History and Life. Indexes publications from 1954-present.
- African Studies Centre DatabaseMulti-disciplinary. The catalog of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, which lists over 80,000 books, over 85,000 journal articles, as well as African newspapers, government reports, grey literature, and motion pictures. Includes annotated citations to journal articles and listing of books chapters from works acquired since 1988.
- International African Bibliography = Bibliographie internationale africaineQuarterly bibliography, began as a section in the journal Africa. Became a separate publication in 1971. For pre-2001 issues, consult the print edition. Indexes publications from 1929-present.
- Africa BibliographyAnnual bibliography of African Studies. Identifies books, essays, and articles in the social sciences, environmental sciences, humanities, and fine arts. Began as a catalog of publications received by the Edinburgh University Library and the International African Institute. Not useful for identifying government documents. Indexes publications from 1984-present.
- Oxford Bibliography of African StudiesExtensively annotated bibliographies and bibliographic essays authored by experts in African Studies. Part of Oxford Bibliographies Online.
- Bibliography of Africana Periodical LiteratureSix databases: Africana Periodical Literature, African Women, Search Women Travelers to Africa, Islam in Africa, Kenya Coast, and Water in Africa. Files can be searched separately, or together through AfricaBib.
- Bibliography of Asian StudiesMulti-disciplinary. Indexes journal articles, books, and book chapters, principally in Western languages on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Indexes publications from 1971-present.
- Oxford Bibliography of Chinese StudiesExtensively annotated bibliographies and bibliographic essays authored by experts in Chinese Studies. Part of Oxford Bibliographies Online.
- L'Année PhilologiqueCovers Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, and palaeography: all aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world. Indexes publications from 1928-present.
- Sociological Abstracts
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Identifies journal articles on all aspects of sociology, comparable in scope to SocINDEX, but includes more books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Indexes publications from 1952-present.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Alternate version: Anthropology Plus in the classic EBSCO user interface (best for exporting more than 50 results or combining saved searches). Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
- Anthropological Index Online (AIO) This link opens in a new windowThe Anthropological Index Online is the anthropological index to current periodicals held in the Anthropology Library at the Centre for Anthropology, The British Museum. The AIO is published by the Royal Anthropological Institute in cooperation with the Centre for Anthropology, The British Museum.
- Anthropology Online This link opens in a new windowAnthropology Online brings together written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies covering human behavior. It is an essential resource for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography.
Reference Sources
- The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture byCall Number: 907.2 ONLINEISBN: 9780197500125Publication Date: 2020
- The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies byCall Number: 306 Ox22ISBN: 9780199218714Publication Date: 2010
- The Oxford Handbook of Disability History byCall Number: HV1552 .O94 2018ISBN: 9780190234959Publication Date: 2018
- The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia byCall Number: Q. HV2365 .S24 2016ISBN: 9781452259567Publication Date: 2016
- Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness byCall Number: Q. 362.4203 G135ISBN: 9780070792296Publication Date: 1987
- Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion byCall Number: Q. GT507 .E54 2010ISBN: 9780195377330Publication Date: 2010-
- The Cambridge History of Africa byCall Number: 960 ONLINEISBN: 9780521222150Publication Date: 1982Encyclopedic overview. Part of Cambridge Histories Online.
- The Cambridge History of China byCall Number: 951 ONLINEISBN: 9780521243278Publication Date: 1986Encyclopedic overview. Part of Cambridge Histories Online.
- The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia byCall Number: 959 ONLINEISBN: 9780521355063Publication Date: 1993-Encyclopedic overview. Part of Cambridge Histories Online.
- The Cambridge History of Latin America byCall Number: 980 ONLINEISBN: 0521232236Publication Date: 1984-Encyclopedic overview. Part of Cambridge Histories Online.
- The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies byCall Number: DG209 .O94 2010ISBN: 9780199211524Publication Date: 2010
Digital Collections
- Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social MovementA collection of primary and secondary sources documenting the history of disability around the world. Document types include video recordings; histories; biographies; reference works; artwork; literary works; personal narratives, oral histories, diaries, and interviews; correspondence; organizational records; government documents; posters, pamphlets, brochures, and ephemera; curricular documents; research reports; periodicals and newspapers; speeches; photographs; and more. Covers 1492-present, with bulk of documents from the twentieth century.
Suggested Subject Headings
- Ugliness -- History.
- Ugliness -- Social aspects.
- Abnormalities, Human.
- Malformations.
- Blind -- History.
- Blindness -- Social aspects -- History.
- Deaf -- History.
- Deaf culture.
- Deafness.
- Beauty, Personal -- History.
- Human body -- Social aspects.
- Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
- Human body -- History.
- Human anatomy -- History.