Databases for African Studies

Use RefWorks with Library databases to organize your research, include citations in papers, and create bibliographies.

Africabib.org maintains the African Women’s Bibliographic Database and the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database.
African Writers Series
Black Drama
Black Studies Center
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
An index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries.

There are numerous discipline-specific databases that can be consulted when researching African Studies topics. The following are the ones most frequently consulted, but researchers should also consult the Library Databases to determine whether there are other discipline-specific databases suitable for their given research topic. For example, researchers pursuing topics related to health care in Africa could consult CINAHL Plus with Full Text, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.

Anthropological Index Online (anthropology)
Anthropology Plus (anthropology)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) (international affairs)
EconLit (economics)
EIU ViewsWire (business and economics, politics, statistics)
Family & Society Studies Worldwide
General BusinessFile ASAP (business and economics)
GEOBASE (geography, ecology, international development)
Historical Abstracts (world history, excluding the United States)
Literature Resource Center (literary biography and criticism)
MLA International Bibliography (literature)
National Trade Data Bank (via STAT-USA) (economics, trade and commerce)
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International (foreign relations, public policy, international political movements, and political science in general)
Sociological Abstracts (international social movements, and sociology in general)
Women's Studies International (women’s studies)

The following databases will also provide information on African Studies:

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Last modified: 10/21/09