African Studies Resources

African Studies Research Guide [1]	Libguide for African Studies research.
Access World News ▶NEW◀ [2]	Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. The African newspapers in the archive are historical resources - most titles ended publication by 1922.
Africabib.org [3]	This site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature.
African Journals Online: AJOL [4]	AJOL provides free hosting for over 320 peer-reviewed journals from 25 African countries. These journals cover the full range of academic disciplines with strong sections on health, education, agrilculture, science and technology, the environment, and arts and culture.
African Studies Companion [5]	Reference.
African Women's Bibliographic Database [6]	These database covers African Women's literature as part of the larger Africabib.org [3]website. A comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa is also found.
African Writers Series [7]	This online edition includes over 210 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, and Nelson Mandela.
Africa-Wide NiPad [8]	Incorporating South African and African Studies, this database provides access to African Studies Abstracts, Africa Institute Database, Southern African Database, SOAS Library Catalogue: Africa, and Natural & Cultural Heritage of Africa, among others.
Allafrica.com [9]	This archive contains over a million articles from 100 news publications throughout Africa and from several hundred other sources, including governments, non-governmental organizations and other newsmakers, inside and outside of Africa.
Aluka [10]	A digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. It includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, and manuscripts.
ArtSTOR [11]	ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.
Black Short Fiction and Folklore [12]	This e-book contains stories, folktales, and short fiction by African, African American, and Caribbean authors.
Black Studies Center [13]	This database combines three resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and more.
Database of African Theses and [14]Dissertations [14]	Published by the Association of African Universities.
Economist Intelligence Unit [15]	Database of international business intelligence prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Includes publications such as Business Africa, and includes Country Reports for African countries.
eHRAF World Cultures [16]	The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is comprised of full-text primary source materials (mainly published books and articles, but including some unpublished manuscripts) on selected cultures or societies representing all major areas of the world.
Ethnographic Video Online [17] ▶NEW◀	Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Index Islamicus [18]	Citations to over 240,000 articles and monographs dealing with all aspects of Muslim life and Middle Eastern studies.
International Documentation Network on the Great Lakes Region of Africa [19]	This resource aims to collect and edit "grey literature" documents about recent events and about economic, social and politic prospective for the region. Countries of interest : Burundi, Rwanda and the regional context (Kenya, Ouganda, Tanzania and Democratic Republique of Congo - DRC)
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text [20]	Indexes more than 150 scholarly and popular multidisciplinary journals from the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. Abstracts are available from 1998 forward. Forty-two core journals are available in full text. Retrospective indexing dates to 1902.
Library Press Display [21]	This site provides a global perspective on the world's events, delivering a wide range of publications to readers while at the library, at home and away. Includes African newspapers from Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
JSTOR [22]	Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and the sciences. Does not include the current issues of journals nor the most recent four or five years.
MLA International Bibliography [23]	MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Project Muse [24]	Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
Quarterly Index of African Periodicals [25]	An index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries.
Sabinet Online [26]	This e-book allows access to full text results compiled from acclaimed international and South African databases.
Smithsonian Global Sound [27]	This collection aims to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional roots music. Through its site, it offers audio and video downloads, streaming media, educational resources, and liner notes.
Other Resources	Timbuktu Manuscripts [28] Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project [29] Africa South of the Sahara [30] UPenn African Studies Center [31] Africana Librarians Council [32] UPenn Libraries Africana Librarians Council [33]