UCL Library Services subscribes to many electronic databases which provide access to a variety of resources. There is a full a-z list of databases but the most relevant ones to use to discover Black Studies material are listed on this page. These include:
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Including the indexing from Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index Online, Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of core and lesser known 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. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Covering important issues related to race in society today. This database includes essays, articles, government reports, primary source documents and speeches and more
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Also available direct from publisher until 31st October 2025. HAPI is a bibliographic database providing citations to the contents of scholarly journals published around the world on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
Archive of important scholarly journals. Core resource. Accessibility statement for JSTOR.
OpenAlex is a free and open catalogue of the world's scholarly research system indexing over 250 million scholarly works from 250,000 sources, with extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South
Full text of journals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, with some scientific and medical titles. Accessibility statement for Project Muse.
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. Over 160 subjects areas are covered including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more. Accessibility statement for ProQuest Central.
ProQuest One Literature contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Includes content from Literature Online (LION). Accessibility statement for ProQuest One Literature.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
This Indexing and Abstracting database covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Pulled from nearly 2,000 serial publications, including journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations.
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Web of Science. Defaults to Web of Science Core Collection, which searches citation indexes containing details of scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings and selected book chapters from all academic disciplines; select 'All Databases' option from the drop down menu to cross-search all UCL's subscribed Web of Science products, including Biosis.
Providing access to 280 U.S. newspapers and chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience, this collection includes papers from more than 35 states and features many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles. Accessibility statement for African American Newspapers, Series 1: 1827-1998.
This database complements and expands on African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998 with more than 75 newly available newspapers all written for or by African Americans. The focus is on the lives of African Americans as individuals, an ethnic group and Americans. Accessibility statement for African American Newspapers, Series 2: 1835-1956.
This collection, originally archived by the British Library, features nearly 60 newspapers from across the African continent, all published before 1900.
Focuses on the evolution of the region across two centuries chronicled within more than 140 titles from 22 islands
This database provides more than 50 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere
The second series of digitized Latin American Newspapers expands the number of searchable titles available from this region. Providing issues from more than 250 additional titles, this online series includes newspapers published in English, Spanish and Portuguese from 20 countries, including some countries and cities not represented in the inaugural collection of Latin American Newspapers.
A primary source is a first-hand expression or evidence of an event or experience. This evidence can be in the form of the written word, images, artefacts, film or sound recordings, and will have been created at some point during the lifetime of the person involved. Using primary sources in your research adds context and credibility to your argument. Primary sources will vary depending upon what is being studied.
This collection explores five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts. Accessibility statement for Age of Exploration.
Exploring the establishment of American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and its role as an organisation supporting anti-colonial struggles in Africa during the principal period of decolonisation in the 1950s, 1960s and 70s. Accessibility statement for Adam Matthew Explorer.
Focusing on South African politics, trade relations, international opinion and humanitarian dilemmas against a backdrop of waning colonialism and mounting world condemnation. Accessibility statement for Adam Matthew Explorer.
Cross-search with other Gale/Cengage primary sources in Gale Primary Sources. Covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the present day providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations. Accessibility statement for Gale Primary Sources.
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others. Accessibility statement for Border and Migration Studies Online.
Featuring more than 150 newspapers from all regions of the United Statesplus approximately 50,000 government documents and 4,000 rare broadsides and pieces of ephemera. This diverse collection of primary materials provides unprecedented local and national coverage of American culture, politics and society from 1840-1877 a tumultuous time that redefined a nation
Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century
Cross-search with other Gale/Cengage primary sources in Gale Primary Sources. Featuring monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy in Europe and Africa. Accessibility statement for Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource includes unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice. Accessibility statement for Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice.
This resource focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Accessibility statement for JSTOR
This resource links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. Accessibility statement for JSTOR.
To find other primary source archives that are not listed on this page, please go to the A-Z database guide, drop-down the 'types' menu and select 'primary sources'.
The ProQuest Black Studies database is an interdisciplinary collection of resources including the full text of the most influential Black historical newspapers, scholarly journals, archival and other primary materials related to the Black experience, and topic pages collating resources on notable people and organizations from the late 18th Century to the early 21st Century, including Black Lives Matter, the Black Panther Party, and The Civil Rights Congress.