Library Guides: African Studies: Articles

Bibliographies and Indexes Focusing on Africa

Africa Bibliography
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Lists recent works in African Studies principally in the social and environmental sciences, humanities and arts, and some items from the medical, biological and natural sciences. Published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984.
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A Current Bibliography on African Affairs
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Quarterly bibliography includes original essays, book reviews, and citations for books, articles, government documents, and visual aids.
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Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography
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Open access journal of annotated bibliographies and bibliographic essays.
International African Bibliography Online
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International and interdisciplinary specialist bibliography of African Studies. 1971- .
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African Studies Abstracts Online
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Quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities from the library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden.
AfricaBib
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Provides access to the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, the African Women's Database, and additional resources. Founded by Davis Bullwinkile at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and continued by the African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden.
African Index Medicus
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International index to African health literature and information sources provided by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with technical support from the World Health Organization.
African Journals Online (AJOL)
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Searchable database of African-published journals. Supported by INASP. Includes table of contents and article abstracts. Some full text is available but online access to most articles is fee-based.
Africa South of the Sahara: Index to Periodical Literature, 1900-1970
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Printed index with supplements covers material in the social sciences and material on African life and culture. Includes some articles from the 19th century and a literary index of about 3,000 African literary works.

Web dossiers
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Bibliographies from the African Studies Centre Leiden. Note the Library Weekly also.

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Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900. Includes the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is especially useful for its citation linking.
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Scopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 29,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.

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Annual Reviews (Social Sciences Journals)
Annual collection of academic publications that publish comprehensive, critical reviews of significant research within a field.

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Many dissertations will include a review of the relevant literature.
Includes citations for materials from the first U.S. dissertation (1861) to those accepted as recently as last semester. Starting in 1997 full-text is often available. If full-text is not available information about ordering the document is provided.

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Regularly updated annotated bibliographies. University of Chicago Library subscribes to many sections of Oxford Bibliographies Online such as African Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Atlantic History, Buddhism, Childhood Studies, Chinese Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Environmental Science, Geography, International Law, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Military History, Music, Political Science, Renaissance and Reformation, Social Work, and Sociology.
Regularly updated annotated bibliographies. University of Chicago Library subscribes to many sections of Oxford Bibliographies Online such as African Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Atlantic History, Buddhism, Childhood Studies, Chinese Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Environmental Science, Geography, International Law, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Military History, Music, Political Science, Renaissance and Reformation, Social Work, and Sociology.
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