Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host)
         search.epnet.com/login.asp?USER=s8684074&Password=Password&profile=asp

America: History & Life
         http://serials.abc-clio.com

Annual Reviews
         http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/arsearch.dtl
Annual Reviews with full-text links in a variety of fields including biomedical, physical and social sciences. A good resource for cross-disciplinary studies involving Africa and Africans.

Dissertation Abstracts (français / español)

Ethnic Newswatch (Search Help)
         http://www.softlineweb.com/ethnicw
         Available on campus and through the proxy server.

FindArticles.com

Historical Abstracts
         http://serials.abc-clio.com

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (Search Help)
         http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Find articles from newspapers around the world and legal information on many topics including Africana Studies. Read English-language newspapers from Africa under General News or follow the latest story about a civil rights case in Legal News.

Magportal
         http://www.magportal.com

netLibrary
         http://www.netlibrary.com

Project Muse
         http://muse.jhu.edu
Research different subjects in over 100 online journals. Best coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Find criticism of African American literature or original literary works. Includes the journal Callaloo, an excellent resource for the topic.

Sociological Abstracts
         http://www.csa2.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=cuny&access=bklyn&cat=socioabs

Academic Info: African American History
         http://www.academicinfo.net/africanam.html
Find links to directories, leaders, slavery, the civil war, civil rights movement, jazz, online publications, museums, libraries, teaching materials and other resources. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.

Academic Info: African Studies
         http://www.academicinfo.net/histafrica.html
Find directories, news, online publications, libraries and archives, university departments and history links. Most links are annotated and many include attributions.

Africana.com
         http://www.africana.com

Columbia University - Area Studies, African Studies Internet Resources
         http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/
Link to programs and research centers, journals and newspapers, scholars, book resources. Resource guides by region and country, organization and topic.

Digital Librarian: African American
         http://www.digital-librarian.com/africanamerican.html
Nearly 100 sites alphabetically arranged, with major index sites highlighted. Covers historical and contemporary materials. Each entry includes brief annotation. Links kept up to date and new sites are noted.

Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History
         http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/afrores.shtml
Well organized guide from Rutgers University. Includes links to reference sources, news, archives, associations and organizations and electronic texts arranged by century. A few entries include brief annotations.

Yahoo Regional Guide
         http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Africa/
Select a country or try a topic such as Arts and Humanities, Business and Economy, Government, Health, Society and Culture.

Yale Africa Guide InterActive
         http://swahili.africa.yale.edu/links
Covers Africa & African Americans, language, wildlife, news, scholarships, arts, travel, social action, business, etc.

Electronic Journals and Newspapers

Africa News Archival
         http://dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6558

Africa News (Current)
         http://dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6342

BlackPressUSA
         http://blackpressusa.com
Source of news on the African American community. Links include archives to previous weeks of news, a clickable timeline of black media history, submitted letters of concerns and essays and other resources.

Callaloo
         http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cal/

Human Rights Quarterly
         http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hrq/

Internet Public Library - Online Serials
         http://www.ipl.org/reading/serials/
Click on Regional & Travel/Africa and browse annotated links to free electronic journals, or search for africa or other desired term and get additional appropriate links.

JENdA A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
         http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/

The Journal of Modern African Studies
         http://www-us.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=101397

African Studies
         www.sais-jhu.edu/depts/Africa

Other Web Sites

The Africa Focus Project
         africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
An image and sound database from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library. Search by collection, subject or country. Image collections include artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion and women. Sound collections include greetings, rites and ceremonies, songs and singing and drums.

The Africa Guide
         www.africaguide.com
Covers travel in 51 African countires. Includes data on climate, currencies, visa requirements, transporation and accommodations, favorite destinations, sports, and national festivals.

Africabib.org
         www.africabib.org/aboutdatabases.html
Includes 2 databases: Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database and African Women's Database. BAPLD covers 27,000 articles from over 246 periodicals. AWD contains over 20,000 citations from 1986 to current including books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.

The African American Mosaic
         lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

African-American Women: Online Archival Collections
         scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Includes scanned images of letters from black women in the 19th century.

African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
         vads.ahds.ac.uk/vads_catalogue/AAVAA.html

African Writing Systems
         www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html

AlternaTime
         www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
Includes a number of links relevant for Africana Studies such as the African American History Timeline, the Chronology of the History of Slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement Timeline.

American Slave Narratives
         xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
Text and audio clips from 13 slave narratives.

Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator
         http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/learning/Bethune/
Includes photos, interviews, and "a brief life history of Mary McLeod Bethune including her founding of the Daytona Normal and Industrial School for Negro Girls" (now Florida's Bethune-Cookman College). Also features resources for teachers. From the Florida Memory Project.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
         http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

Celebrating Black History Month
         http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm.htm

Center for electronic resources in African Studies
         http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ceras/
Especially see the resources category.

Cornell University Africana Library
         http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Library/Texts.html

Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
         http://docsouth.unc.edu/dasmain.html
Collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes North American slave narratives and the church in the southern black community.

The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
         http://blackhistory.eb.com/
Includes audio clips and links to 15 other sites. Includes timeline.

English Server - Race & Ethnicity
         http://eserver.org/race/
Links to approximately 100 individual online resources arranged alphabetically. Point of view includes African Americans and other groups. Find an African American bibliography, primary sources from Douglass, Du Bois and others, personal narratives and theoretical discourses.

Gale Group: Black History
         http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio.htm
80 short biographies.

Gateway to African-American History
         http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis
Links to bibliographies, archival and research sites, presidential speeches and full-text versions of government reports and articles.

The Internet African American History Challenge
         http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory
Profiles of prominent 19th-century black Americans.

Literature and Life: The Givens Collection
         http://www.pbs.org/ktca/litandlife/main.html

The Papers of African American Artists
         http://www.aaa.si.edu/guides/afriamer/afamguid.htm

Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
         http://www.maynardije.org
Strives to make media coverage inclusive and accurate as it pertains to people of color.

The Story of Africa
         http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml

Underground Railroad

Menare Foundation
         www.ugrr.org