Databases & Indexes: Africa Focused
- Africa Journals Online
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Searchable tables of contents to select recent African journals in science & technology, social sciences, and the humanities. From AJO site: "Historically, scholarly information has flowed from North to South and from West to East. It has also been difficult for African researchers to access the work of other African academics. In partnership with hundreds of journals from all over the continent, AJOL works to change this, so that African-origin research output is available to Africans and to the rest of the world."
Africa Bibliography by Call Number: Ref DT3 .A38Brings together works published on Africa in a given year. Arranged by region, country, and then subject.
International African BibliographyCall Number: CC Reference DT3 .I58Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Jan. 1971 - 2012
Indexes 1,150 periodicals each year. Arranged by area/topic; 1980 to date issues have subject and ethnic group indexes but they are not detailed.
- Africana Periodical Literature Database This link opens in a new window
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An English language database that indexes articles from journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. - ProQuest Black Studies Periodicals (International Index to Black Periodicals) This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations and the full text)
Explore cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues in African and African-American Studies. Covers 1998 - current.
Databases & Indexes: Disciplinary
Use an index to search the contents of journals and some books. The following index some journals relevant to African studies, or are interdisciplinary in nature.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present. - PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service This link opens in a new window
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Includes information about articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about international public affairs. Covers publications from 1914 - present. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Research from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has referenced a particular document since its publication. 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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Searches through citations, subject headings, and some abstracts
The premier database for linguistics and literary studies, this index includes articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and more. Covers 1926 - current. - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current.
