{"id":56,"date":"2024-09-13T19:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2024-10-02T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:12:26","slug":"african-studies-reference-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"African Studies Reference Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"shortcode sh-grid sh-grid-cols-1 md:sh-grid-cols-12 sh-gap-3\"><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-3 sh-pb-3\"><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2256\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2256 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/woman.jpg\" alt=\"A Maasai woman wearing multi-colored, beaded jewelry holds a child on her hip.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Maasai woman wearing multi-colored, beaded jewelry holds a child on her hip. Photo: by Jack-z [CC-BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-9 sh-pb-3\"><\/p>\n<h2>Online Databases<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/africabibliography.cambridge.org\/\">Africa Bibliography<\/a>\u00a0Includes a wide range of materials from all regions, including North Africa. Covers monographs, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, and pamphlets in English as well as Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Swahili, Spanish and Afrikaans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.leidenuniv.nl\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/search.do?dscnt=0&amp;scp.scps=scope%3A%28lib_asc%29&amp;frbg=&amp;tab=leiden&amp;dstmp=1411571229985&amp;srt=rank&amp;ct=search&amp;mode=Basic&amp;dum=true&amp;indx=1&amp;tb=t&amp;fn=search&amp;vid=UBL_V1&amp;vl%28freeText0%29=\">African Studies Centre (Leiden)<\/a> Database Identifies monographs, journal articles and chapters from edited works on both North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Works best with Firefox browser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africabib.org\/women.html\">African Women&#8217;s Bibliographic Database<\/a>\u00a0Identifies citations from English-language publications about African women.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africabib.org\/perio.php\">Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database<\/a>\u00a0Identifies English-language articles from English-language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/solomon.bld2.alexanderstreet.com\/\">Black Drama<\/a>\u00a0Contains 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.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disa.ukzn.ac.za\/\">DISA Digital Imaging South Africa: Southern African Freedom Struggles, 1950-1994<\/a>\u00a0Identifies articles, editorials and other commentary about political views in Southern Africa between 1950 and 1994.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2UrMzgzZiZTTUQ9NCZJTlQ9MCZWRVI9Mg==&amp;clientId=36305\">Ethnic NewsWatch<\/a>\u00a0Also find the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/ethicnewswatch?accountid=14553\">New ProQuest Interface<\/a>. Includes full text access to 200 U.S. newspapers and journals with much coverage of Africa.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&amp;profile=ehost&amp;defaultdb=ich\">Index Islamicus<\/a>\u00a0Identifies publications on Islam, the Middle East and North Africa and the Muslim world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reference-global.com\/loi\/iabi\">International African Bibliography (IAB)<\/a>\u00a0Produced at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library, University of London.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilissafrica.de\/en\/\">Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa (ILISS Africa)<\/a>\u00a0Especially good for Dutch and German materials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jstor.org\">JSTOR<\/a> Includes full-text articles in many disciplines.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/liberation\/\">Liberation Journals Index<\/a>\u00a0For mainly pan-African articles from Francophone countries, between WWI and WWII.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.co.za\/\">Sabinet<\/a> For South African scholarly journal articles.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riftvalley.net\/index.php?view=soahome\">Sudan Open Archive<\/a>\u00a0Open access archive of digitized materials related to regions of the Sudan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Print Only Indexes and Bibliographies<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"noBullets\">\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2250\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/uiuc.jpg\" alt=\"U of I Logo\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><em>Africa Bibliography. <\/em>annual. 1984-.\u00a0 016.96 Af832\u00a0 Africana Reference Collection<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2250\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/uiuc.jpg\" alt=\"U of I Logo\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>\u00a0<em>American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master&#8217;s Theses on Africa<\/em>, 1886-1974 and 1974-1987.\u00a0 016.96 Am35\u00a0 Africana Reference Collection<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2250\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/uiuc.jpg\" alt=\"U of I Logo\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>\u00a0<em>Current Bibliography on African Affairs. <\/em>1964-.\u00a0 016.9605 C936.\u00a0 1991- in Africana Reference Collection, older in Main Stacks<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2250\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/uiuc.jpg\" alt=\"U of I Logo\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>\u00a0<em>International African Bibliography. <\/em>annual. 1971-.\u00a0 016.916 In82.\u00a0 1986- in Africana Reference Collection, older in Main Stacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research Guides<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Africana Film Database\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/Africana_Film_Databasex2x.pdf\"><span class=\" fa fa-file-pdf-o\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Africana Film Database<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/lafrique-dans-les-periodiques-francaises\/\">L&#8217;Afrique Dans Les Periodiques Francaises at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/north_africa_middle_east.pdf\"><span class=\" fa fa-file-pdf-o\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> How to Find Information on North Africa and the Middle East<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/selected-african-history-sources\/\">Selected African History Sources at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/selected-african-literature-theater-sources\/\">Selected African Literature, Folklore and Theater Sources at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/selected-african-politics-sources\/\">Selected African Politics Sources at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/105\/2024\/10\/religion_guide.pdf\"><span class=\" fa fa-file-pdf-o\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Selected African Religious Sources at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/selected-african-statistics-sources\/\">Selected African Statistics Sources at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/african\/african-studies-collections-services\/african-studies-reference-resources\/selected-african-studies-sources\/\">Selected African Studies Sources at Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Databases Africa Bibliography\u00a0Includes a wide range of materials from all regions, including North Africa. 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