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African & African American Studies: Articles & Journals

Begin your research with the best resources recommended by the subject liaison for African & African American Studies. The guide features journal indexes, reference works, primary source collections, and film documentaries.
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  • Multidisciplinary
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  • Journals of Note
  • AfricaBib.org This link opens in a new window
    Multidisciplinary suite of bibliographic databases indexing scholarly articles, books, dissertations and films related to Africa.
  • Africa Bibliography This link opens in a new window
    Indexes scholarly articles & books on Africa - and to a lesser extent the African diaspora. Subject coverage principally in the social and environmental sciences, development studies, humanities and arts. Some items from the medical, biological and natural sciences are included. African government publications and works of creative literature are not normally listed.
  • African Studies Centre Catalogue This link opens in a new window
    Library catalog for the University of Leiden's African Studies Centre, whose collection covers materials in all disciplines related to Africa and the diaspora. Includes bibliographic citations (and some abstracts) for monographs, journal articles and chapters from edited works.
  • Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
    This suite of databases includes the International Index to Black Periodicals, which indexes over 150 magazines and journals from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, with coverage as early as 1902. Includes full text of 40 key scholarly journals
  • De Gruyter
    Access to journals and books published by DeGruyter as well as current and archival books from various United States university presses (such as Columbia, Harvard, Princeton)
  • Duke Univ. Press - African American Studies & Black Diaspora
  • Duke Univ. Press - African Studies
  • Ethnic newswatch This link opens in a new window
    Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States, published 1990- .
  • HAPI online This link opens in a new window
    The Hispanic American Periodicals Index, or HAPI, is a source for scholarship about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States, with coverage from 1970 to the present. It contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many articles are available in full-text, via the fee-based document delivery service.
  • HLAS online: handbook of Latin American studies This link opens in a new window
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    Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
  • JSTOR - African American Studies
  • JSTOR - African Studies
  • Project Muse
    Full-text archive of selected scholarly books journals in the humanities and social sciences. Advanced search menu allows limiting to specific disciplines.
  • Scopus This link opens in a new window
    Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It contains over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 publishers around the world, covering the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and Arts & Humanities. Scopus has 55 million records dating back to 1823, 84% of these contain references dating from 1996.
  • Web of Science This link opens in a new window
    Citation database with multidisciplinary coverage of journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Indexes the journal literature and tracks article citation histories.
  • Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
    Indexes, abstracts and full-text from international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins from 1984 to the present. Areas covered include archaeology, architecture, art, film, humanities, marketing, motion pictures and photography. Ser Art Retrospective to find articles from 1929-1984.
  • ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
    Consists of searchable database of citations (1949-present) to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews in the fields of religious and theological studies.
  • Communication & mass media complete This link opens in a new window
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields.
  • Film & television literature index This link opens in a new window
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    • Database
    Covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Some full text is available.
  • International index to music periodicals full text This link opens in a new window
    Provides thesaurus-controlled indexing and abstracts to more than 350 music periodicals from 1996 forward. Also provides author/title-keyword access to 130 titles dating as far back as 1874. International coverage includes nearly all aspects of the world of music.
  • MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
    The most comprehensive index of scholarship in literature, language, folklore, film, new media, and rhetoric and composition. Covers articles in periodicals, books, and book chapters. Does not index book reviews.
  • Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
    Provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews published worldwide. Topics covered include aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
  • RILM abstracts of music literature This link opens in a new window
    A comprehensive international guide to writings about music with articles from more than 5200 journals. Coverage includes all types and genres of music. Selected books, conference proceedings, dissertations, Festschriften, reviews, and catalogues are also indexed.
  • America, history and life This link opens in a new window
    Bibliography of articles on the history and cultures of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
  • Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
    Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)
  • AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
    Full-text archive of American Anthropological Association's journals, newsletters and bulletins.
  • EconLit This link opens in a new window
    Indexes 30+ years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled by the American Economic Association, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Citations and abstracts to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Coverage begins in 1963.
  • World agricultural economics and rural sociology abstracts This link opens in a new window
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Derived from CAB Abstracts the database covers agricultural economics to farm economics, food industry and rural sociology from 1973 to the present. It includes policy and development, agrarian reform, employment, environmental and natural resources, biotechnology, input industries, markets, marketing, consumers, international trade, finance, education and extension, and the rural economy.
  • Worldwide political science abstracts This link opens in a new window
    The database contains abstracts of materials from professional journals, major news magazines and books devoted to the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, public law, public administration and public policy. Topics include political institutions, processes, and behavior; international law and politics; policy analysis; public affairs and administration; public law; political theory; and political economics.
  • Environment Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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    Provides citations and abstracts to the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Major areas of coverage include agricultural equipment and methods, arctic and tropical engineering, coastal engineering, environmental impact and protection, hazardous materials, heat exchangers, hydroelectric power, internal combustion engines, mines and quarry equipment, nuclear power plants, pipes and pipelines, sources and control of air pollution, steam power, thermoelectric energy, tidal and wind power, treatment of sewage and industrial wastes, turbines, water analysis and treatment techniques.
  • ProQuest Science Journals This link opens in a new window
    Provides access to abstracts and periodicals in science, engineering, and technology in full-text and image formats. Covers a wide range of topics from both physical and life science disciplines. Provides a full-text linking destination for ProQuest's versions of Applied science & technology abstracts and General science abstracts.
  • PubMed This link opens in a new window
    PubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
  • African American newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998
    Part of the Readex "America's Historical Newspapers" collection. Features over 200 newspapers from 39 states and the District of Columbia, published by or for African Americans,
  • African American Newspapers, Series 2 (1835-1956)
    Part of the Readex "America's Historical Newspapers" collection. Features over 75 newspapers from 22 states and the District of Columbia, published by or for African Americans,
  • African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
    • On Campus or VPN
    Part of the Accessible Archives collection. Collection of major 19th century African-American newspapers, including: Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, Pa.); Freedom's Journal (NY); Colored American (NY); Provincial Freeman (Ontario, Canada); National Era (Washington, DC); and Frederick Douglass' North Star (Rochester, NY) and its later titles.
  • African newspapers: from the World newspaper archive in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries This link opens in a new window
    African Newspapers, 1800-1922 provides more than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe, African Newspapers offers unparalleled coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922. This collection includes such key publications as the East African Standard, Mombasa Times & Uganda Argus (Kenya), Leselinyana la Lesutho (Lesotho), Central African Times (Malawi), Beira Post (Mozambique), Lagos Standard (Nigeria), Mafeking Mail and Protectorate Guardian (South Africa), Sierra Leone Weekly News (Sierra Leone), Uganda Herald (Uganda), Buluwayo Chronicle (Zimbabwe) and nearly two dozen others.
  • AllAfrica.com This link opens in a new window
    Please use Dartmouth's VPN for off campus access.
    Contains articles from over 100 news publications throughout Africa and from several hundred other sources, including governments, non-governmental organizations and other newsmakers, inside and outside of Africa. Subscription/premium content in the news archive (1996+) is available via the advanced search function.
  • Ethnic newswatch This link opens in a new window
    Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States, published 1990- .
  • Factiva This link opens in a new window
    Indexes and provides full text to 33,000 news and business information sources from 200 countries in 28 languages, includes regional and industry publications, newspapers, newswires, Web and blog content.
  • Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
    Provides access to full text resources on topics including current and general news; business and financial information; newspapers; company directories; government and politics; medical and health topics; accounting, auditing, and tax; federal and state laws; legal cases; regulations; and patents.
  • PressReader
    Database that includes 250 newspapers from 55 countries in facsimile formthat means all newspapers are readable in their original format, layout and pagination. Texts are searchable, and about 30 papers (LA Times, Washington Post, etc.) have enhanced features ("SmartNavigation") for easy reading or cutting and pasting. The file for each newspaper goes back 60 days.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
    Full content (text & image) of the back-run of several major newspapers, including the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as several African-American press newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, and selected foreign titles such as the Times of India and the Manchester (UK) Guardian Does NOT cover current years.
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    American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger
    American Israelite
    Atlanta Constitution
    Atlanta Daily World
    Baltimore Afro-American
    Baltimore Sun
    Boston Globe
    Chicago Defender
    Chicago Tribune
    Chinese Newspapers Collection
    Christian Science Monitor
    Cleveland Call and Post
    Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)
    Globe and Mail
    Guardian and Observer
    Hartford Courant
    Jerusalem Post
    Jewish Advocate
    Jewish Exponent
    Los Angeles Sentinel
    Los Angeles Times
    New York Amsterdam News
    New York Times with Index
    New York Tribune
    New York Tribune / Herald Tribune
    Norfolk Journal and Guide
    Philadelphia Tribune
    Pittsburgh Courier
    San Francisco Chronicle
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922)
    Times of India
    Wall Street Journal
    Washington Post
  • African Affairs
  • African American Review
  • African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal
  • African Diaspora (Brill Publishing)
  • Black Scholar
  • Callaloo
  • Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
  • Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
  • Journal of African History
  • Journal of Black Studies
  • Journal of Modern African Studies
  • Research in African Literatures
  • Souls: a critical journal of Black politics, culture, and society.
  • more AAAS electronic journals
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