Use DELCAT, the catalog of the University of Delaware Library, to locate books on your subject. Also, DELCAT lists the titles of the library subscriptions to serials: magazines, journals, and newspapers.

EIU ViewsWire [Economist Intelligence Unit].
LOCATION: Library Databases

A Web-based intelligence service from the Economist Intelligence Unit, offering analysis on key economic, political, and business developments around the world. Each day, it supplies 100-150 analytical articles on any of 195 countries. Provides full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics.

EIU Country Profiles [Economist Intelligence Unit].
LOCATION: Library Databases

Country Profiles provides background and historical context of current economic and political events for each country. Each profile analyzes the infrastructure and major industrial sectors of each economy and includes maps and tables of key economic data for the past 5 years.

EIU Country Reports [Economist Intelligence Unit].
LOCATION: Library Databases

Country Reports analyzes political and economic trends. Each report examines and explains the issues shaping the country: the political science, economic policy, the domestic economy, and foreign trade and payments. The reports include quarterly and annual statistics of at least 150 data points picked from the most reliable sources and reviewed by EIU analysts to provide consistent, objective and impartial coverage.

Expanded Academic ASAP Plus.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides bibliographic references, abstracts, or full text for articles from more than 2,300 scholarly journals and general interest magazines. It has full text of more than 1,300 titles. Covers the humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences and current events. Covers 1980 to present; updated daily.

LexisNexis Academic.
LOCATION: Library Databases

One of the best sources for current information, especially from newspapers or wire services. Most of the citations have full text of the article. Also includes full text articles from selected magazines and journals.

AfricaBib.Org.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.africabib.org/)

A combination of two major databases, Africana Periodical Literature and African Women's Database providing citations to periodical and other material on Africa.

Alternative Press Index.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HN17.5 .A1 A46)

Indexes alternative and radical publications, including several African studies journals. A listing of the publications indexed is given at the front of each volume.

Anthropology Plus.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An index composed of Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index to provide extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. It offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in anthropology as well as local and lesser-known journals from the late 19th century to the present.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO).
LOCATION: Library Databases

A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes a wide range of scholarship, such as working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Econlit.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature. It includes coverage (1969 to the present) of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collected volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.

General BusinessFile ASAP.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An online database (1980 to the present) which provides references and/or abstracts to articles from more than 900 scholarly and general interest business and economic periodicals. It also provides the full text of many articles. It includes indexing of the current year of the Wall Street Journal and the financial section of the New York Times.

Historical Abstracts.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database (1955 to the present) covering scholarly journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations in world history (excluding the United States and Canada).

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database that includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean—and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals.

JSTOR.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Among the major journals included are African Affairs and Journal of Afican History.

MLA International Bibliography.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An index to published scholarly journals and books in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Coverage is from 1963 to the present.

PAIS International.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An electronic index (1972 to the present) to books, periodicals, and government documents on issues concerning public affairs.

Quarterly Index to African Periodical Literature.
LOCATIOIN: Internet (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/misc/qsiquery.html)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref DT1 .Q37x)

An index from the U.S. Library of Congress' Nairobi Office for 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries.

Sociological Abstracts.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An electronic index (1963 to the present) with abstracts which covers journal, dissertations, and unpublished conference papers in sociology, criminal justice, social work and related social science disciplines.

Women's Studies International.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, containing over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential Women's Studies databases. Included is the Women Studies Abstracts, which indexes Women's Studies journals from 1984 to the present.

An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az.html)

A frequently updated list of selected Internet resources on Africa.

Africa South of the Sahara.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html)

A comprehensive site for African Studies research on the web.

African Studies Association.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.africanstudies.org/)

A learned society which bring together persons with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa to provide useful services to the Africanist community and to publish and distribute scholarly Africanist materials.

African Studies Center.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html)

A listing of a variety of resources on African Studies maintained by the Univerisity of Pennsylvania.

African Studies Resources.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/africa.html)

A list of online resources maintained by the Princeton University Library for African studies research.

Index on Africa.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.afrika.no/index/index.html)

A gateway to information on Africa on the Internet, with over 2.000 links sorted by country, subject and news created by The Norwegian Council for Africa (NCA), as a part of NCA's efforts to raise awareness about Africa and African affairs.

ABYZ News Links - Africa.

LOCATION: Internet (http://www.abyznewslinks.com/afric.htm)

Links to newspapers and other news sources from Africa, arranged by country and region. Within each listing, news sources list home city, language, media type, and media focus. The News Links section lists web based foreign language translators and font resources.

News Services

Facts on File.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref D410 .F33)

Weekly news reports from government press releases and 50 U.S. and foreign newspapers, arranged country by country.

Keesing's Record of World Events.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref D410 .K4)

Records national and international affairs with continually updated indexes and based on information obtained from the press, broadcasting, and official sources. Complementing the news digest section is a reference section which includes cross-indexed and up-to-date background briefing documents. Political and economic data is presented country by country, topic by topic.

LexisNexis Academic.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides full-text information on a variety of topics from newspapers, magazines, legal literature, and other sources. Several subfiles are available that may be searched individually, including: General News Topics, Country Profiles, Foreign Language News, Government & Political News.

New York Times.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides full page and article images with searchable full text of the New York Times back to 1851. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue up to 1999.

Area Handbook Series. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
LOCATION: Internet (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference

Published by the United States Department of the Army, books in this series present an overview of the history, politics, culture and economy of a given country. A bibliography of additional resources is included. To locate a printed handbook in DELCAT, do a title keyword search. Example: [ (area handbook series) and kenya ]

Biography Resource Center.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It includes Contemporary Black Biography.

Britannica Online.
LOCATION: Library Databases

The contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica are available in this database, as are articles not found in the print Britannica. Also included are the Britannica Book of the Year, which provides annually updated information on current political events, and links to quality Internet sites.

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1997.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref DT351 .E53 1997)

Encyclopedia of African History and Culture. 3 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref DT3 .P27 2001)

Encyclopedia of African Peoples. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref DT15 .E53 2000)

Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa : Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures, and Environments. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1997.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref. DT2 .E53 1997)

Encyclopedia of Human Rights. 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, 1996.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JC571 .E67 1996)

Encyclopedia of the Third World. 4th ed. 3 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HC59.7 .K87 1992)

Historical Dictionary of Pre-Colonial Africa. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref DT17 .C65 2001)

Human Right Encyclopedia. 3 vols. Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe Reference, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JC571 .L523 2001)

LexisNexis Statistical.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An index to statistical publications issued by the federal government, state governments, private publishers, and international and intergovernmental organizations. It includes links to agency web sites and to the full text of a publication, if the agency has made it available.

OECD Statistics.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.oecd.org/home/)

A site maintained by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) containing statistical information on trade, education, development, ecnomomic and social issues.

PopNet.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.popnet.org)

A resource for population information where you can browse a comprehensive directory of population-related websites available either by organization, by region and country, or by topic within countries. PopNet is produced and maintained by the Population Reference Bureau with funding assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

UNESCO Institute of Statistics.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.uis.unesco.org)

A site maintained by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) to gather, interpret and report on the global situation with regard to education, science and technology, culture and communication.

United Nations. Demographic Yearbook. New York: Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, United Nations. Annual.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA17 .D45)

United Nations Statistics Division.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd)

Statistics and methods in the fields of international merchandise trade, demography, gender, industry, energy, and more.

Historical

Handbook of National Population Censuses. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA36 .G67 1983)

International Historical Statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan Reference ; New York : Stockton Press, 1998.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA4675 .M58x 1998)

World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators. 3d ed. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HN25 .T39 1983)

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