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Selected Resources for: African Studies
Subject Librarian: Malaika Grant E-Mail: grant044@tc.umn.edu This subject covers: the history of Africa from early times to the present. Other related topics are: African Studies; Middle East Studies; and Afro-American Studies. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
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International Index of Black Periodicals  Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Aluka An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.
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PAIS International  Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier  This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Africa-Wide Information A compilation of databases covering African studies, including among others, the Index to South African Periodicals and South African National Bibliograpy. Contains data previously covered by "South African studies" and "African studies" databases
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| African Newspapers More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| World News Connection Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Bibliographies
| Africa Bib Povides access to two research oriented databases: Africa Women's Biblographic Database (1986-date) and Africa Periodical Literature (19th Century to date)
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Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
| Africa Who's Who [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| African Biographical Dictionary [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dictionary of African Biography [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dictionary of African Historical Biography [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Country Studies
| Library of Congress Country Studies The Library of Congress Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
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Dictionaries
| Black Handbook Subtitle: The People, History, and Politics of Africa and the African Diaspora
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| Peoples of Africa: an Ethnohistorical Dictionary [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa, The [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| African Newspapers More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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Guides
| African Studies Companion This guide to African Studies resources includes over 1,900 annotated entries, covering both print and online resources on Africa.
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Handbooks and Manuals
| Africa South of the Sahara [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| African Political Facts Since 1945 [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
| Afrique francophone Provides an excellent interdisciplinary introduction to French-speaking Africa through the variety of its contents: generalist sites, continental press, references by country, music, art, literature, research centers, commercial sites, and associations.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Titles
Magazine Titles
| Africa Research Bulletin News digests taken directly from African newspapers, radio broadcasts, news
agencies, UN publications, European newspapers, and journals, giving full
credit to original sources.
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News Sources
Statistics and Data
Data Resources
| Africaresource.com Online organ of the Africa Resource Center that offers full-text accessibility to selected e-journals, web resources devoted to Africa and the diaspora, a gallery of African related poetry, art, and criticism, and a list of books and design galleries.
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Statistical Resources
| African Statistical Yearbook This book presents statistics by country on the following areas: population and employment; national accounts; agriculture, forestry and fishing; industry, transport and communications; foreign trade, prices and social statistics.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson
Reference Services.
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Writing Guides
| QuickStudy -- Citing Sources QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.
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