Researching Periodicals From the African Diaspora: Periodicals from Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America

If you know the title of the publication, you may search by title in the NYPL catalog. You may limit your search to holdings at the Schomburg Center only: 

You may search for a publication by doing a keyword search using the country of publication and the word "periodicals" (e.g. Senegal periodicals).

To browse titles of publications from Canada, you can try the following subject search:

• Blacks -- Canada -- Periodicals
• West Indians -- Canada -- Periodicals 

To search by location for the periodicals from specific islands in the Caribbean you can include the name of the island in the search heading as follows:

• Barbados -- Periodicals

To search for titles across the Caribbean you can try the following search:

• Caribbean Area -- Periodicals

To locate Caribbean American periodicals, you can try the following search:

• Caribbean American -- Periodicals
• Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Periodicals

To locate titles from Central America such as Panama, you can try:

• Panama Canal (Panama) -- Periodicals

To locate titles from South American you can search the country such as the following:

• Blacks -- Brazil -- Periodicals
• Blacks -- Latin America -- Periodicals

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources (including digitized periodicals) from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. The database is freely accessible to researchers accessing it remotely.