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Getting Started
As a Vanderbilt student you can:
- get help with your research assignments by using Ask a Librarian.
- borrow books and other items from any of the campus libraries (except Special Collections).
- return most items you check out to any library.
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowLiterary guide to significant sources on a variety of subjects. Works as an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Reference sources published by Oxford University Press. Dictionaries, subject reference works, language reference sources and key titles in the Oxford Companion series. Some examples are: the Oxford-Duden German dictionaries, A Dictionary of Psychology, A Dictionary of Zoology, The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Oxford Companion to U.S.History, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, etc.
- BrillOnline Reference Works This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia of Islam and other sources for Islamic Studies are available.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowCambridge Histories covering American, British, economic, regional, and general history, language and linguistics, philosophy, religious studies, theatre studies and performing arts, etc.
- Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Concise overviews of hundreds of diverse topics from the abstract (Knowledge) to the concrete (Coral Reefs), written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
Encyclopedia of AfricaCall Number: DT 3 .E53 2010 (Central Library 4th Floor Reference)Unlimited User Ebook and Print Available
UNESCO General History of AfricaCall Number: Central Library Stacks DT 20 .G463
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Journal articles, book titles, book reviews, and dissertations.
- Gale Literature: Book Review Index This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive guide to book reviews: cites or links to full-text reviews.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowLarge and important archive for academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Many journals do not have current issues.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Search all ProQuest databases simultaneously. Includes arts, humanities, social sciences, news, and science and technology.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982 This link opens in a new windowIndex of articles from magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Christian Century, Commonweal, Foreign Affairs, Fortnightly Review (London), Good Housekeeping, Harper's, Ladies Home Journal, Literary Digest, The Nation, New Republic, Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, Saturday Review, Scribner's, and Women's Home Companion.
SUNJATA: A NEW PROSE VERSIONUNLIMITED USER EBOOK ON ORDER
African History: A Very Short IntroductionCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT20 .P37 2007Three User Ebook and two print books available
Homegoing: A NovelCall Number: Central Library Stacks; PS3607 .Y37 H66 2016Three User Ebook and Print Available
A Pocket Guide to Writing in HistoryCall Number: Divinity Library--1st Floor ; D13 .R295 2004One User EBOOK ON ORDER and print (4th ed.) available
Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American MindCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT38.7 .K45 2018Unlimited User Ebook and Print available
Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800Call Number: Central Library Stacks; DT14 .E36 2002Unlimited User Ebook and print available
Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in GhanaUnlimited User Ebook available- Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT61 .K44 2006Unlimited User Ebook and print available
Ancient Egypt in AfricaUnlimited User Ebook
The African Origin of CivilizationCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT61 .D5613Unlimited User Ebook and Print available
Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of RevolutionCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT476 .G74 2019One User ebook and print available
Hidden Treasures of TimbuktuCall Number: Central Library Oversize Stacks (3rd Floor); DT551.9 .T55 H86 2008Print only.
Themes in West Africa's HistoryCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT475 .T48 2006Unlimited User ebook and print available
Sunjata: a West African epic of the Mande peoplesCall Number: Central Library Stacks; GR352.82 .M34 S86 2004Three User Ebook (ON ORDER) and print available
Concubines and Power: five hundred years in a Northern Nigerian palaceCall Number: Central Library Stacks; HQ696.7 .N37 2005Unlimited User Ebook and print available
Ibn Battuta in Black AfricaCall Number: Central Library Stacks; DT365.2 .I262513 1994Unlimited User Ebook (ON ORDER) and Print Available.
Atlantic in Global History: 1500-2000Unlimited User Ebook Available- Subaltern Lives: biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920Unlimited User Ebook Available
- Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean WorldEBOOK ON ORDER
The Story of SwahiliCall Number: Central Library Stacks; PL8701 .M77 2015Unlimited User Ebook and Print Available
Women and Slavery in AfricaCall Number: Central Library Stacks; HT1321 .W66 1983Unlimited User Ebook and Print Available
Like Family: Domestic Workers in South African History and LiteratureCall Number: Central LIbrary Stacks; HD6072.2.S6 J3613 2019Unlimited User Ebook and print available
Library Perks
- Library PerksVanderbilt Libraries offers a variety of resources and services for research and scholarship. Make sure you don't miss out on any of these library perks for Vanderbilt affiliates.
