Articles concerning Africa can be found in many indexes. The following indexes can be used to find pertinent articles:
Indexes for African Topics:
- African Studies Abstracts
- African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on Africa in the field
of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden.
- African Women's Bibliographic Database
- Index to English language books, documents and articles dealing with African women published since 1986.
- Bibliographies on South African political history
- Bibliographies and guides in African studies. v. 1. Register of private document collections on the
political history of South Africa since 1902.--v. 2.
General sources on South African political history since
1902.--v. 3. Index to periodical articles on South African
political and social history since 1902.
- Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database
- Index to over 200 English language journals that specialize in African studies.
Index Islamicus -
Online bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.
- Quarterly Index of African periodical literature
- An index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries by the Nairobi office of the Library of Congress
- Quarterly index to periodical literature, Eastern and Southern Africa
- Indexes to citations of quarterly issues are cumulated in no. 4 of each volume. Issued also to depository libraries in microfiche.
General Indexes for All Topics:
- Academic Search Complete
- Provides scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
- Expanded academic index
- Index to articles in all fields. Some full-text material is included.
- Lexis-Nexis
- World news, business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources.
- Research Library (Available until 6/30/08).
- General index to articles in all fields. Some full-text material is included.
For History & Politics:
- Black Studies Center
- Black Studies Center combines invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black studies: Schomburg studies on the Black experience, International index of Black periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago defender, ProQuest dissertations for Black studies, and Black literature index. Database is cross-searchable and many articles provided full-text.
- Historical abstracts
- Major index to articles in world history covering the period 1450 on.
- PAIS international
- Index to articles and selected books and government reports in the br /oad field of public policy.
For Literature & Humanities:
- Art abstracts
- Index to articles in the field of art.
- Arts & humanities citation index
- Index to articles in all fields of humanities. Part of the Web of Science, from the search screen, choose Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
- International index to music periodicals - Library CD-ROM Network
- "Indexes more than 375 international music periodicals from over 20
countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post."
- MLA international bibliography
- Index to articles and books in the field of literature, folklore and linguistics.
- RILM abstracts of musical literature
- Over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
For Economy & Development:
- ABI/Inform research
- Index to articles in the field of business.
- CABI online
- World agricultural economics and rural sociology abstracts.
- EconLit
- Index to articles in over 300 major economic journals and selected books.
- Geobase
- Indexes articles from over 3000 journals as well as books, proceedings, reports, and theses in the areas of human and physical geography, international development,
environmental studies, third world studies, and selected oceanographic literature.
For Education:
- ERIC
- Consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals
For Anthropology & Sociology:
- Anthropological literature
- Index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.
- eHRAF Collection of Ethnology
- A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University.
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Index to articles in all fields of social science. Part of the Web of Science, from the search screen, choose Social Sciences Citation Index.
- Sociological Abstracts
- Index to articles in the field of sociology.
Health:
- AJOL, African journals online African research, journals, medical research
- AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa. All the material on AJOL is free to view, search and browse, however copyright of all content is retained by the journals or authors.
