Embassy of the United States

American Studies

Electronic Resources on American Studies

On the Internet

The following links are only the tip of the iceberg. They will, however, give you a head start in searching the Internet for resources in American studies.

http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/
The American Studies Crossroads project at Georgetown University. Also the site of the American Studies Association (ASA).

http://lamp.georgetown.edu/asw/category.php?name=arts_and_literature&page=all
An indexed overview of useful American Studies websites, compiled by Georgetown University. An excellent place to start.

http://www.oah.org/announce/links.html
Links to American history sites, compiled by the Organization of American historians

http://www.let.uu.nl/eaas/
The European Association for American Studies (EAAS)

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/inform.html
Links to American Studies sites, compiled by the University of Colorado

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Area_Studies
/American_Studies/
Google’s compilation of American Studies sites

http://xroads.virginia.edu/
American Studies at the University of Virginia, with many useful links to hypertexts and facsilime documents.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/afam/index.html
E-guide on African-American scholarly resources, including texts

http://www.founders.howard.edu/afroam2.htm
On African-American studies, at Howard university

http://www.library.upenn.edu/resources/subject/interdiscipline/
african-american/african-american.html
On African-American studies, at the University of Pennsylvania

http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/
Sites about Native American studies

http://bailey.uvm.edu/ref/subguides/natamer/web.html
Websites on Native American studies

www.politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/resources/almanac
Almanac of American politics, provided by the National Journal

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School – documents in law, history and diplomacy

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrofno.htm
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Chronology of American history

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/constpap.htm
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - The American Constitution: A Documentary Record

www.nara.gov/
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website

http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch1.asp
U.S. Congress Biographical Directory

http://www.nypl.org/
New York Public Library

http://www.oyez.org/
Oyez Project: Supreme Court Multimedia Database, compiles by Northwestern University

www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/info/tamlit_info.html
American literature website, compiled by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University

http://www.census.gov/
U.S. Census Bureau website

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
Collection of US Historical Documents, compiled by the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma

http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/cpso.html#subjects
LC Subjects (Library of Congress Subject Headings) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is part of the Library of Congress Classification, a system of classifying books with similar topics. The Library of Congress Subject Headings can be used to select appropriate words or subject headings to search in the Online Catalog, and other electronic databases.

http://www.loc.gov/
Library of Congress

Belgian-Based

http://www.kbr.be/cas
The Center for American Studies at the Royal Library, Brussels, described above.

http://www.usembassy.be/
The website of the U.S. embassy in Brussels, mostly in English, but the sections in Dutch and French are growing constantly. The site contains dozens of useful links to all aspects of the United States.

http://www.uspolicy.be/
Also a site of the U.S. embassy in Brussels, providing access to authoritative information on U.S. Government policy issues as well as on U.S. society and institutions.

http://www.umh.ac.be/
The American Studies Center at the Université de Mons-Hainaut

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/modern/rooseveltstudy.htm
The Roosevelt Study Center is a research institute, conference center, and library on twentieth-century American history located in a twelfth-century abbey in Middelburg.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
“From Revolution to Reconstruction, and what happened afterward��?, University of Groningen. Contains the ‘Outline Series’ on American history in English, Dutch and German, plus hundreds of additional historical documents, essays, biographies… The site received several international awards.

http://www.allesamerika.com/geschiedenis-amerika.html
A comprehensive site in Dutch about travel, history, pop culture.

General.

Academic Research Library (ARL) ProQuest - Center for American Studies

At Flemish universities and institutions of higher education

Access to online databases in the Flemish universities and institutions of higher education is managed by Elektron. For detailed information about the Elektron program, see http://www.libis.kuleuven.ac.be/vowb/pubverslag/elektronbeschr.htm

Access to databasesf offered by Elektron goes via http://www.libis.be/vowb/pubverslag/elektrondb-toegang2.htm

It is only possible via computer networks of institutions authorized by Elektron. Please note that they are not available at all universities and institutions. Check with your librarian or with Elektron (via the links above) about their availability at your institution.

Among the databases offered by Elektron, the following can be relevant in an American Studies context:

1. ISI Web of Science (Citation Databases)
For information about content, see http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com/

Current Contents Search is the online version of ISI's popular Current Contents series of publications. Current Contents is a weekly service that reproduces the tables of contents from current issues of leading journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Journal Citation Reports
For information about content, see  (http://www.isinet.com/isi/products/citation/jcr/ )
Journal Citation Reports is a unique multidisciplinary database ideal for a broad range of practical applications by a variety of information professionals. It presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories.

2. ERL databases:

Wilson Art Index - Econlit - Sociological Abstracts – MLA

3. EBSCO databases:

Academic Search Elite (http://www.epnet.com/academic/
asearchelite.asp)
Business Source Elite (http://www.epnet.com/academic/
bussourceelite.asp),
Business Source Premier (http://www.epnet.com/academic/bussourceprem.asp)
For information about content, see http://www.epnet.com/academic/default.asp

4. Literature Resource Center
Infotrac / Gale Group

For information about content, see http://www.gale.com/
pdf/facts/lrc.pdf
Infotrac manual: http://www.galegroup.com/pdf/customer_
service/manuals/itwebguide.pdf

5. ScienceDirect

For information about content, see (http://www.sciencedirect.info/news/newsletters/
connect/archive/sdconnect0401.shtml )

6. EconLit (The American Economic Association)

For information about content, see http://www.econlit.org/

At French language universities and institutions of higher education

Academic Business Inforfmation (ABI/Inform) ProQuest

For information about content, see (http://www.proquest.com/
products/pt-product-ABI.shtml

Université Catholique de Louvain
Université de Liège
Université Libre de Bruxelles

Art Index

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Dissertation Abstracts

Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMS)
Université Catholique de Louvain

EconLit (The American Economic Association)

For information about content, see http://www.econlit.org/

Université Catholique de Louvain
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL)
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur (FUNDP)

Complete text of more than 100 books and bibliographic information about the books from Twayne's United States Authors Series and OCLC American authors catalog. Includes biographies and critical analyses of the books.

http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Contains details of over 90,000 films from 1930 onwards, including biographical details of over 30,000 personalities and references to periodical articles. The 1996 update includes information on festivals and Awards.

http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/

Université Libre de Bruxelles

This microfilm library is a combination of material from the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston. The collection contains more than 50,000 early publications in economics and history up to the mid-19th century.

http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Established in August 1995, JSTOR is an independent non-profit
organization created with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The database contains references of over 200
magazines and journals in the fields of humanities, social sciences,
statistics and economy.

http://www.jstor.org/
http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/BIB/per_jstor_info.htm

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Library Information Science Abstracts (LISA)

LISA allows access to past, present, and ongoing developments in librarianship, information science, online retrieval, new information technologies, and publishing. LISA on SilverPlatter includes abstracting and indexing of 500 periodicals (dating from 1969) from over 60 countries along with unpublished academic and institutional research from the Current Research in Library and Information Science Database (since 1981).

http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/

Université Libre de Bruxelles

MLA (modern languages, linguistics, literature and folklore) (http://www.mla.org/www_mla_org/publications/
publications_main.asparea=&section=pub5310114237
&mode=sub&level=1 )

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur (FUNDP)

ScienceDirect

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL)

SwetsNet

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Wall Street Journal

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur
(FUNDP)

Current Contents Search(ISI)

Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMS)
Université Catholique de Louvain
University of Mons / Hainaut
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL)
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur
(FUNDP)

International Bibliography of Book Reviews

Université Catholique de Louvain

Periodical Contents Index (PCI)

Université Catholique de Louvain

Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)

Université Catholique de Louvain

Encyclopedia Britannica

Université de Liège