{"id":1143,"date":"2013-02-07T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2013-02-07T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:00:11","slug":"free-access-to-proquest-black-history-resources-for-black-history-month-blackhistorymonth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/02\/07\/free-access-to-proquest-black-history-resources-for-black-history-month-blackhistorymonth\/","title":{"rendered":"Free access to ProQuest Black History Resources for Black History Month #blackhistorymonth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/02\/blacknewspapers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1144\" alt=\"Black Newspapers\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/02\/blacknewspapers.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/02\/blacknewspapers.jpg 403w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/02\/blacknewspapers-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ProQuest are offering <strong>free<\/strong> access to the following Black History resources throughout February 2013. (University of Edinburgh users please note that the links below do not\u00a0give access to\u00a0existing resources already\u00a0available for UofE users\u00a0from ProQuest)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/catalogs\/databases\/detail\/histnews-bn.shtml\">ProQuest Historical Newspapers<sup>\u2122<\/sup> &#8211; Black Newspapers<\/a>\u2014The voice of the people, culture, politics, and issues in those communities that too often received little to no attention from other papers. They give students the complete story with nine full-image titles that are cross-searchable with other ProQuest Historical Newspapers, ProQuest Civil War Era, and with the Black Studies Center. <a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/embedded\/7HQKHX36JPCD2W73?accountid=143950\">Access it free now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/catalogs\/databases\/detail\/bsc.shtml\">Black Studies Center<\/a>\u2014Start here&#8230;for primary and secondary sources for Black or African American studies. It includes the only periodical resource focused exclusively on African and African American studies, two historical Black studies indexes: the Marshall Index to Periodicals and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.&#8217;s Index to Black Literature, and the full <em>Chicago Defender<\/em> newspaper from first issue to 1975. <a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/bsc.chadwyck.com\/cleanAutoLogin.do?instit1=T143950&amp;instit2=KLSU66CGMW\">Access it free now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/catalogs\/databases\/detail\/cwe.shtml\">ProQuest Civil War Era<\/a>\u2014Comprehensive full-image primary source materials, previously unavailable digitally, cover a vast range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves. <a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/embedded\/7HQKHX36JPCD2W73?accountid=143950\">Access it free now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/promos\/aah\/aah.shtml\">ProQuest African American Heritage<\/a>\u2014Groundbreaking digital resource that not only brings together records critical to African American family research, but also connects to a community of research experts. <a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/promos\/aah\/PQ_AAH_2Min.shtml\">See the video<\/a>. <a title=\"click here\" href=\"http:\/\/africanamericanheritage.proquest.com\/aagweb\/aag\/do\/login\/username?pcr1=T143950&amp;pcr2=1IQ8OIR2XC\">Access it free now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProQuest are offering free access to the following Black History resources throughout February 2013. (University of Edinburgh users please note that the links below do not\u00a0give access to\u00a0existing resources already\u00a0available for UofE users\u00a0from ProQuest) ProQuest Historical Newspapers\u2122 &#8211; Black Newspapers\u2014The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/02\/07\/free-access-to-proquest-black-history-resources-for-black-history-month-blackhistorymonth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[27,134,138,170,186],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}