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Databases for African Studies

• African Studies Centre (Leiden) Database
Identifies monographs, journal articles and chapters from edited works on both North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Works best with Firefox browser.

• Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
Identifies mainly scholarly journal articles published in East, Southern and West Africa.

• Africa Bibliography
Identifies scholarly works published under the auspices of the International African Institute since 1984.

• African Women's Bibliographic Database
Identifies citations from English-language publications about African women.

• Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
Identifies English-language articles from English-language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.

• Black Drama
Contains many African plays and playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

• DISA Digital Imaging South Africa: Southern African Freedom Struggles, 1950-1994
Identifies articles, editorials and other commentary about political views in Southern Africa between 1950 and 1994.

• Ethnic NewsWatch
Also find the New ProQuest Interface. Includes full text access to 200 U.S. newspapers and journals with much coverage of Africa.

• Index Islamicus
Identifies publications on Islam, the Middle East and North Africa and the Muslim world.

• International African Bibliography (IAB)
Produced at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London.

• Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa (ILISS Africa)
Especially good for Dutch and German materials.

• JSTOR
Includes full-text articles in many disciplines.

• Liberation Journals Index
For mainly pan-African articles from Francophone countries, between WWI and WWII.

• Sabinet
For South African scholarly journal articles.

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Last modified by: Denise Sampson on 7/11/12