LibGuides: African Studies: Articles, Abstracts and Indexes

Indices and Databases

African Book Publishing Record
The African Book Publishing Record (ABPR) is the only bibliographical tool which offers systematic and comprehensive coverage of new and forthcoming African publications in a single source, providing full bibliographic and acquisitions data. In addition to its bibliographic coverage, ABPR also includes an extensive book review section, reviews of new journals, and features a variety of news, reports, and articles about African book trade activities and developments. The titles included in the bibliographical section are arranged according to subject area, country and author. Indexes of publishers and currencies complete this journal.

AfricaBib
Indexes African periodicals, Including "Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature" with over 184,000 records. Also contains the following bibliographic databases:
African Women; Women Travelers to Africa;
Islam in Africa; Kenya Coast; Water and Africa;
Education in Africa
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
A Library of Congress index of over 700 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) acquired from 29 African countries. Date range is from 1991-2011.

Dissertations

Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source for doctoral dissertations from the United States and Canada. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. A limited number of master's theses is also included. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

Databases with Africa Content

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online, full text access to scholarly journals from first publication date to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present--i.e., the most recent 2-5 years' worth of issues will not be available at any given time. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, full-text, discipline, year, and article type.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. (late 19th century -)
Compilation of the databases Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to resources on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life.
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive graduate and faculty research in religion and theology, including index citations, journal articles, multi-author works, book reviews, curated by ATLA (American Theological Library Association)
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Summaries (abstracts) and searchable publishing information on articles, books, and other publications in the field of linguistics, including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.