Journal Articles / Databases

Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (Library of Congress Office, Nairobi)
Find citations to articles published in, mainly, Eastern African journals. Since 1991 the Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, has indexed over 700 journals from 29 eastern and southern African countries. In 1997 the LC Nairobi Office began adding publications from Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, and Senegal and citations from these countries are now included. Index produced by the U.S. Library of Congress Office,Nairobi, Kenya.

JSTOR
Full text articles. http://www.jstor.org/

The African Studies Centre. Library (Leiden, The Netherlands) has an excellent OPAC (online public access catalog), African Studies Centre Catalogue. The Catalogue includes annotated citations to articles, chapters from edited works acquired since 1988 and published in African Studies Abstracts.

Africa-Wide: NiPAD (Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies) - find citations to journal articles & monographs published from 19th Century to July 2004. Five person access at a time. (See the list of class related databases).

Lexis-Nexis Academic - full text newspaper articles (U.S., European and African newspapers and journals, South Africa Constitutional Court judgments, and more)

The Stanford Libraries' Databases page lists sources for journal articles, many available only for Stanford users (through subscription). http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html
See: Expanded Academic ASAP which has some full text articles.

From the Stanford Libraries' Databases page also look for Academic Search Premier. This gives citations to articles and some full text articles.

South African E-Journals - SA ePublications
Stanford has full text access to the Social Sciences and Humanities set of journals published in South Africa (from SABINET). To see titles of all journals to which we have full text access, use the pull-down menu next to Limit on journal title

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Full text journal articles.

Periodicals Index Online
Citations to journal articles.

AfricaBib.Org
Has two separate databases, African Women's Bibliographic Database and Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database.

• The African Women's Database has citations to English language articles, books, govt. documents, theses, etc. from 1986 to date.


• The Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database has citations to journal articles from the mid-19th c. to date and indexes the e-journals - Africa Update, African Studies Quarterly, Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, Internet Journal of African Studies, Jouvert, a Journal of Postcolonial Studies, West African Review.
  A list of journals indexed is provided. Maintained by Davis Bullwinkle. http://WWW.AfricaBib.Org

ERIC. For articles and books on education. Try ERIC via CSA Illumina. British Education Index has many articles as well.

Google Books: Search the full text of books. When you find a relevant book, it's a good idea to look at the actual book as there may be additional content. Google Books shows only selected pages on-line.. http://books.google.com/

Google Scholar: for academic journal articles, chapters in books, books. Find citations (and sometimes full text). http://scholar.google.com/

Google News Archive Search : find citations to newspaper and magazine articles. Some full text articles are on line such as from Time magazine. You can read the other articles by using the library's newspaper and journal holdings. http://news.google.com/archivesearch/

ISI Emerging Markets: good for business, economics news. Indexes articles in some African newspapers. http://site.securities.com/

ELDIS: To retrieve full text articles on many Africa-related topics, search the ELDIS database from the British Library for Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Has Country Profiles. http://www.eldis.org/

SciSearch Plus: Some full text articles, abstracts. Stanford access only. http://search.lanl.gov Also on the SUL Database page. (PS348T Try for articles on land, education, health, AIDS)

Google. Use the Advanced Search. Select your keyword(s) and for the File Format, choose Adobe Acrobat pdf to retrieve various reports. You need to judge the accuracy and relevance of items retrieved.

Persee. In French. Full text articles online from academic journals. Includes Cahiers d'etudes africaines, Annales de geographie, Revue francaise de science politique. From Aliacom and l'université Lumière Lyon 2 with the French Ministère de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. http://www.persee.fr/

CAIRN. In French. Full text journal articles from Afrique contemporaine, has abstracts and some articles from Afrique & Histoire.

Liberation Journals Index
"index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Légitime Défense, L’Étudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques, and the postwar Présence Africaine, as well as the Québécois journal Liberté......" Descriptions of each journal, with references. Search by author, theme, genre (biography, interview, folklore, play, poetry, review, etc.). http://dl.lib.brown.edu/liberation/

Medical Topics
African Index Medicus (full text articles), PubMed (citations), PubMed Central (full text articles), PsycInfo, Global health on CAB direct (put AND between keywords). Africa Health & Medicine on the Internet is a directory of internet resources.

China Academic Journals. Selected, older full text articles on China-Africa relations. From EastView Online. http://online.eastview.com/login_china/index.jsp
See also China Core Newspapers (full text articles in Chinese).

British Periodicals. Full text articles published from the late 17th century to the early 20th century.

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. Licensed to Stanford users. Includes citations to magazine articles published in the 19th century up to the early 20th century in British periodicals. Includes some article citations for The Times newspaper.