Date submitted: 12-12-2007

What is the proposed product?

The Black Studies Center

Provide a URL for this product.

http://www.il.proquest.com/products_pq/descriptions/bsc.shtml

Describe the scope & content in detail.

The scope of the Black Studies center includes newspapers, periodicals, essays, and references which cover historical and current content as well as primary and secondary sources. All this content is integrated into a single cross-searchable gateway. Individual Collections within the Black Studies Center Include: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience™—cross-disciplinary essays by today’s leading scholars in Black Studies, plus rare primary sources, biographies, timelines, and other contextual materials. Multi-media content is also included within the essays. The Chicago Defender: 1910-1975: The full-image backfiles for this leading African-American newspaper which is very well known statewide and nationally. International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text™—journals from Africa, the U.S., and the Caribbean. 250 journals indexed with 85 in full text. Black Literature Index—over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article. The Marshall Index: 1940 - 1946

What is the intended core audience for the product?

The intended core audience is primarily academic libraries.

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