historical
JSTOR (Full Text)
Includes full-text access to five African Studies journals including International Journal of Historical African Studies, Journal of African History, and Journal of Modern African Studies. Select "African Studies" from the search screen or "expand the journal list" to search individual journals.
Historical Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to historical literature (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Decent coverage of Africa.
Annual Egyptological Bibliography Online
The AEB is the primary bibliographical resource for Egyptological research. It is published jointly by the International Association of Egyptologists and the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, and it contains abstracts (in German, French or English) of all Egyptological articles and monographs published from 1947 to 2001, some 46,000 titles in total.
cultural/anthropological
Human Relations Area Files (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more
than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
This database is updated daily.
Anthropological Literature
Anthropological Literature indexes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology and includes art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature includes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present..
ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials (Full Text)
A collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Journals representing all major religious faiths, major denominations, and language groups are included. Information dates as far back as 1949, and coverage continues through the present.
Sociological Abstracts
An index to over 1,700 journals covering the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
literary
MLA Bibliography
Index to journals and books, proceedings, etc. in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. From 1963. Updated 10 times per year.
Contemporary Authors (Full Text)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Includes major African authors.
Literary Index
Master index to the major literature products published by Gale Group, Inc. including African Writers. Combines and cross references more than 135,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and more than 165,000 titles into one source.
political/current events
Campus Research (WestLaw)
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.
Business Source Premier (Full Text)
Provides full text for over 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
Index to policy-oriented literature (books, journal articles and U.S. and foreign government documents). International coverage of information about political, economic and social issues and events in specific countries. Covers 1972 to the present.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
This comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 to the present that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from international conferences.
general
Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.
The African American Experience
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.
Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text) 
A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Please log out when you are finished.
Periodicals Archives Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text to approximately 140 journals including Africa, Journal of African Studies, and Journal of Religion in Africa.
Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.
Britannica Online (with Webster's Dictionary) (Full Text)
Latest article database, including articles not in the print edition, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and the Britannica Book of the Year (1994 - present), with thousands of web links selected by editors.
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