Journal Articles / Databases
African Studies - Database Search
Experimental search engine. Search several databases with one search. Does not include all relevant Africa-related databases. [This is a variant of xSearch]
African History - Database Search
Africa Bibliography
Citations to books, journal articles, chapters in books from approx. 2004-2009.
http://africabibliography.cambridge.org/
Quarterly
Index of African Periodical Literature (Library
of Congress Office, Nairobi)
Find citations to articles
published from the early 1990s to 2011 in, mainly, Eastern African journals. The Library of Congress Office, Nairobi indexed over 700 journals
from 29 eastern and southern African
countries. In 1997 the
LC Nairobi Office began adding publications
from Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, and
Senegal and citations from these
countries are included.
JSTOR
Full text articles. http://www.jstor.org/
The African Studies
Centre. Library (Leiden, The Netherlands)
has an excellent OPAC
(online public access catalog), African
Studies Centre Catalogue. The Catalogue includes
annotated citations to articles, chapters from
edited works acquired since 1988 and published
in African Studies Abstracts.
Africa-Wide Information - find citations to journal articles
& monographs published from 19th Century
onwards. Five person access at a time. On EBSCOHost. (For the class, South Africa: Contested Transitions; see the list of class
related databases).
Lexis-Nexis Academic -
full text newspaper articles (U.S., European
and African newspapers and journals, South
Africa Constitutional Court judgments, and
more)
Index Islamicus - citations to books, journal articles, conference proceedings, multi-authored works and book reviews.
Academic Search Premier - citations to articles and some full text articles.
PsychINFO
Citations to articles. Includes gender issues, health, HIV/AIDS, FMG, ethnic conflict. Links to some full text articles.
Intergovernmental and Non-Governmental Organizations Search - specialized search engine for reports by international government organizations and NGOs. Good for development, human rights studies. Created by U.S. documents librarians. http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006748068166572874491%3A55ez0c3j3ey
Historical Abstracts
From EBSCO. Scroll down to the Hs. Citations to journal articles.
19th Century UK Periodicals. See Series 2: Empire.
Full text articles on-line. Select Series 2: Empire. When you get citations, click on the underlined Title. To advance thru the article, click on Next.
South African E-Journals - SA ePublications
Stanford has full text access to the Social Sciences
and Humanities set of journals published in South Africa (from SABINET). To see
titles of all journals to which we have full text access, use the pull-down menu
next to Limit on journal title
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Full text journal articles. Covers 200 years.
Periodicals Index Online
Citations to journal articles. Some articles have links to the full text provided by JSTOR.
AfricaBib.Org
Has two separate databases, African
Women's Bibliographic Database and Africana
Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database.
- The African Women's Database has citations to
English language articles, books, govt. documents, theses, etc. from 1986
to early 2000s
- The Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database has
citations to journal articles from the mid-19th c. to date and indexes
the e-journals - Africa Update, African Studies Quarterly, Electronic
Journal of Africana Bibliography, Internet Journal of African Studies,
Jouvert, a Journal of Postcolonial Studies, West African Review.
A list of journals indexed is
provided. Maintained by Davis Bullwinkle. http://WWW.AfricaBib.Org
ERIC. For articles and books on education. Try ERIC via CSA Illumina. British Education Index has many articles as well.
Google Books: Search the full text of books. Shows only selected pages unless the book is in the public domain. When you find partial book contents, it's a good idea to look at the actual book as there may be additional useful content.
Has an experimental magazine section. In the Advanced search, limit by Magazines. Find articles, including photos, from Jet, Black World, Ebony. http://books.google.com/
Google
Scholar: for academic journal articles,
chapters in books, books. Find citations (and
sometimes full text). http://scholar.google.com/
Google News Archive Search : find citations to newspaper and magazine articles. Some full text articles are on line such as from Time magazine. You can read the other articles by using the library's newspaper and journal holdings. http://news.google.com/archivesearch/
ELDIS: To retrieve full
text articles on many Africa-related
topics, search the ELDIS database from the
British Library for Development Studies at
the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex,
UK. Has Country
Profiles. http://www.eldis.org/
Web of Knowledge:
Some full text articles, abstracts.
Stanford access only. http://search.lanl.gov Also
on the SUL Database page. (PS348T Try for articles
on land, education, health, AIDS)
Google. Limiting Google searches to PDFs often finds academic reports. Put in your search words and add filetype:pdf Example: ghana "primary education" filetype:pdf
Persee. In French. Full text articles online from academic journals. Includes Cahiers d'etudes africaines, Annales de geographie, Revue francaise de science politique. From Aliacom and l'université Lumière Lyon 2 with the French Ministère de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.
http://www.persee.fr/
CAIRN. In French. Full text journal articles from Afrique contemporaine, has abstracts and some articles from Afrique & Histoire. Table of contents of Le Monde diplomatique.
FRANCIS. Citations to articles in English or French. A few full text articles.
- Liberation Journals Index
"index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques, and the postwar Présence Africaine, as well as the Québécois journal Liberté......" Descriptions of each journal, with references. Search by author, theme, genre (biography, interview, folklore, play, poetry, review, etc.). http://dl.lib.brown.edu/liberation/
Medical Topics
African Index Medicus (full text articles), PubMed (citations and some full text articles), PsycInfo, Global health on CAB direct (put AND between keywords). Africa-Wide Information includes African Healthline; you can limit searches to African Healthline. Africa Health & Medicine on the Internet is a directory of internet resources. Also search a selection of databases with one search, African Studies - Database Searching using xSearch. [A variant of xSearch; mainly uses science databases.]
China Academic Journals. In Chinese. "Full-text database covering approximately 6,600 journal titles from the People's Republic of China." From EastView Online. http://cnki.en.eastview.com/kns50/single_index.aspx
See also China Core Newspapers (full text articles in Chinese).
British Periodicals. Full text articles mainly 20th century. Small number of items retrieved.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. Licensed to Stanford users. Includes citations to magazine articles published in the 19th century up to the early 20th century in British periodicals. Includes some article citations for The Times newspaper. Select Search Indexes and limit by Periodicals. Stanford also has a separate full text database to The Times, 1785-1985. Some full text.
- African Journal Archive
Selected full text journal articles online. Journals from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe. Topics include archaeology, biology, botany, classics, economics, education, geology, history, law, medicine, poetry, wildlife. From SABINET the South African library service. http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature.
Third ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Vol. One, Section 19 "Sub-Saharan Africa" by Margaret Jean Hay and Joseph C. Miller, pp. 560-616. http://tinyurl.com/cpt4d4q
Green Information Center Z6201.A55 1995
CSt-H Ref Z6201.A512 1995 Vols. 1-2 |
