Research Guides: African Studies: Articles

Core Databases

The most relevant indexes/databases for African Studies are listed below. Having trouble? For a quick overview, see the UBC Library Guide to Finding Articles. And don't forget, you can always contact your subject librarian for more help with your research.

International African Bibliography
Multi-disciplinary databases with more than 140,000 entries, with 4000 new entries added annually.
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Searchable by author and editor name, publication title and date, subject, ISSN/ISBN, keyword, and region or country (including the African diaspora).
JSTOR World Heritage Sites: Africa
World Heritage Sites: Africa is a versatile collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites.

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African Journals Online (AJOL)
Large database that provides free access to many African journals.
African Newspapers
Part of the World Newspaper Archive, an ongoing project to digitize more than forty 19th and 20th century African newspapers.

Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Main index for anthropology material, including ethnography.

Global Index Medicus
Collection of regional indexes. Select African Index Medicus (AIM) for relevant content.
Historical Abstracts
Main index for world history, including Africa.
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA)
Excellent resource for African languages and linguistics.

PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
An index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy. About 2500 journal titles from around the world are monitored for coverage.

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See the UBC Library Guide to Finding Articles. The guide shows you how to search for a known article from a list or in course reserve, find articles on a topic, and what to do when UBC Library doesn't have the article you're looking for.

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