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- For help please contact Elizabeth
McBride, African Studies Librarian at the Woodruff
Library.
- To find materials located at any of Emory's libraries,
search EUCLID,
Emory's online library catalog. The contents of books and
articles are not searchable in EUCLID. Read Finding
Articles in the Woodruff Library.
- To locate electronic copies of journals such as Africa,
African Arts, etc., use the eJournals database. See
the red button on the EUCLID search screen or click
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- Book Reviews
- Locating Books At Emory
- Locating Books Beyond Emory
- Reference Books
- BOOK REVIEWS
Major Africana titles are covered in standard reviewing
sources such as:
Books
In Print+Reviews
Includes information on in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming
books as well as video and audio recordings from North
American publishers. Also includes full-text reviews.
CHOICE
Provides reviews for books and electronic resources of
academic interest. The electronic version goes back to
1988. A print version (Z1007.C4) goes back to 1964.
For specialized reviews of books dealing with Africana
only, there are several options. Most of the major journals
dealing with Africa have a book review section. Many of
these reviews are indexed in the standard Africana indexes.
Electronic indexes and full text periodical sources (such
as JSTOR) often allow
you to limit your searches to book reviews. In addition
there are the following:
Z465.7 A37 African Book Publishing Record provides
selected reviews and lists of books published in Africa
since 1975. Latest issues are kept in the Acquisitions Department.
H-Africa
Reviews provides reviews back to 1995.
For reviews of older titles:
Z3503.A37 Africana Journal, A Bibliographic Guide
and Review Forum, 1974-1998
DT 1.A2293 Index 1958-1990 Index to the African Studies
Review/Bulletin and the ASA Review of Books, 1958-1990 compiled
by John Bruce Howell.
Ref. Z3501.E35 Africana Book Reviews, 1885-1945: An
Index to Books Reviewed in Selected English-Language Publications
by David Easterbrook (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979).
An unusual project of interest is
Africa's
100 Best Books
A list of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century"
was announced on February 18, 2002. The list includes children's
literature, fiction and non-fiction. Only books written
by Africans were eligible. Books were considered in Afrikaans,
Arabic, English, French, Kikuyu, Portuguese, Sesotho, Shona,
Swahili, IsiXhosa, Yoruba and IsiZulu. The project was organized
by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in collaboration
with the African Publishers Network (APNET), the Pan-African
Booksellers Association (PABA), African writers' associations,
book development councils, and library associations.
- LOCATING BOOKS AT EMORY
To find books, journal holdings, music, videos or
other materials located at any of the Emory libraries,
search EUCLID.
You can search EUCLID by keywords or phrases, author,
title or periodical title. Do not use EUCLID to find individual
periodical articles. Read Finding
Articles in the Woodruff Library.
You can also search EUCLID by subject. When searching
by subject, use the Browse search mode. Browsing
will retrieve a list of subject headings established by
the Library of Congress. A printed, multi-volume set of
Library of Congress (LC) subject headings is also available
at the Woodruff Library Reference desk.
African Studies Thesaurus, Subject Headings for Library
Users (Z695.1 A37 O85 1992) is a detailed guide to
over 4000 subject headings and Library of Congress classification
numbers that apply specifically to Sub-Saharan Africa.
A sample list of LC subject headings for African Studies
is found below. Many general subjects can also be broken
down geographically or by ethnic group, eg. Decorative
arts, Fula; Women, Zulu.
African
languages (see also under the names of individual
languages or groups of language
Hausa
(African People)
Africa
West (see also under other geographic sub-divisions
including the names of individual countries) Some
typical sub-headings are
Africa,
West-colonization
Africa,
West-Description and travel
Africa,
West-Economic conditions
Africa,
West-History (divided by time period)
Africa,
West-languages
Africa,
West-literature
Africa,
West -politics and government
Africa,
West-social conditions
Remember you can do a keyword search in EUCLID to locate
books on your topic and then search on the subject headings
of relevant titles.
- LOCATING BOOKS BEYOND EMORY
Multi-Library Catalogs
- COPAC
A merged catalog of 22 of the largest university
research libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland
plus the British Library. Includes Oxford University
(and Rhodes House Library) and Cambridge University.
- WorldCat
A comprehensive catalog of items held by a wide-range
of libraries including research and public institutions.
Searchable by author, title and subject. Covers other
formats beyond books but does not index journal articles.
Important Individual Library Catalogs
African Studies Centre catalog in Leiden, Netherlands is
a unique African studies database which contains titles of monographs, journal articles and chapters from edited works. Most entries include professional in-depth abstracts.
British
Library is the national library of the
United Kingdom and its website contains extensive information
about the library's rich Africana collection.
Center for
Research Libraries (CRL)
CRL is large collection of over 5 million items
of infrequently used researched materials. It is strong
for foreign doctoral dissertations, newspapers, and
microfilm collections supporting area studies. Many,
but not all, collections can be located through the
CRL catalog. Materials acquired by the Cooperative
Africana Microform Project (CAMP) are housed
at CRL. Emory is a member of CRL and CAMP and has extensive
borrowing privileges to all the Center's collections.
Materials are borrowed through Inter-Library Loan and
can be kept for extended periods of time.
Herskovits
Library at Northwestern
Established in 1954, the Herskovits Library
is one of the largest separate Africana collections
in the world, holding over 250,000 volumes, 2500 serials
as well as an extensive collection of newspapers, maps
and unique materials. The collection includes over 10,000
volumes in African languages. The holdings of the Library
are accessible through NUcat,
the University's online catalog. NUcat also includes
the Africana Conference Paper Index, a searchable
database to their large collection of conference procedures.
Other large collections of Africana in the United States
are found at Berkeley, Boston University, Univ. of Florida,
Hoover Institution, Indiana University, Michigan State
University, Stanford, UCLA, Wisconsin, and Yale.
Library of
Congress - Africa Section
The Africa Section is the focal point of the
Library's reference and bibliographic service for Sub-Saharan
Africa. Africana holdings are integrated into the general
collections and other special collections of the Library.
For both historical and comtemporary research studies,
the Library's collections are substantial, including
sources in every major field of study in the social
sciences and in the humanities. Holdings include invaluable
primary source documents, facsimiles, and secondary
sources.
SOAS:
School of Oriental and African Studies
Houses over 1.2 million volumes with significant
archival holdings and special collections for the study
of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
- REFERENCE BOOKS
The reference collection of the Woodruff Library has
a large collection of resources related to Africa. It
is useful to browse this collection expecially in the
call numbers Ref DT and Ref Z3500. Some titles of particular
relevance are:
Ref Z3501 M3 2007 Africa: A Guide to Reference Material. 2nd ed.
Compiled by John McIlwain. London: Hans Zell, 2007.
A detailed annotated guide to major reference sources
(print and electronic) on Sub-Saharan Africa, other than bibliographies. Covers
approximately 3600 titles published since 1938 with citations and quotes from
scholarly reviews when available.The first edition includes older materials, The author is the pre-eminent African Studies bibliogapher in the United Kingdom.
Ref DT19.8 Z45 2006 African Studies Companion: A Resource
Guide and Directory. 4th ed. Rev. Compiled by Hans
Zell. London: Hans Zell Publishers, 2006.
Provides an annotated list of the major reference print and online resources
dealing with Africa, lists of journals related to the
field, names and addresses of major collections and documentation
centers, and lists of foundation and agencies supporting
African studies research. This is an excellent first guide
to African Studies.
Basic
Guide to Research on Africa at Columbia University Libraries
compiled by Joseph S. Caruso.
Excellent general research guide.
Ref Z3501 D78 Guide to Research and Reference Works
on Sub-Saharan Africa. Peter Duignan, editor. Stanford,
CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1971-.
Although dated, Duignan's guide still remains the most
comprehensive guide to older (but many still unique or
continuing) library and archival materials important to
reference, research, and teaching of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Contains over 3000 entries.
Ref. Z3501.K15 2005 Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography
of Sources. 2nd ed. Alfred Kagan
Reference
Guide is based on a graduate course, "Bibliography
of Sub-Saharan Africa," taught for many years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Z465.7 A37 "Africana Reference Works: An Annotated
List," African Book Publishing Record.
ABPR is a journal that keeps track of African publishing
and, since 1986, it has also contained an annual annotated
list of Africana reference books . Titles are recommended
by a distinguished editorial committee and generally limited
to English and European languages. Recent issues are kept
in Collection Management/Acquisitions.
Includes 713 biographical sketches of historical and contemporary Africans in a wide range of fields.
Ref. DT14.A37435 2005 Africana, The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 5 vols.
Contains almost 5,000 entries on Africa and the diaspora. Editied by Kwame Anthohy Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Ref. DT15.Y35 1999 Almanac of African Peoples and
Places by Mohamad Z. Yakan. New Brunswick, N.J.:
Transaction, 1999.
Reviews African language families and lists languages
and ethnic groups by country. Attempts to forecast possible
inter-ethnic conflicts based on a study of current African
pluralism.
Ref. DT14.A78 1986 Arts and Civilization of Black
and African Peoples. Lagos:Centre for Black and
African Arts and Civilzation, 1986. 10 vols.
Explores the contributions of
black civilization to the arts, literature and civilization
generally. Produced by African scholars based on a colloquim
held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977.
DT20 C27 Cambridge History of Africa. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1975-1986. 8 vols.
Chapters are written by specialists and include extensive
bibliographies, maps and a detailed index.
Ref. DT18. D55 Dictionary of African Biography.
New York: Reference Publications, 1977. 20 vols.
Contains brief histories of individual African countries
as well as biographical information of prominent deceased
individuals, African and non-African, important in African
history. Articles are signed.
Ref. DT20.E53 2005 Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005. 3 vols.
Ooffers lengthy essays and covers the entire continent.
Ref. DT15.E53 Encyclopedia of African Peoples.
London: Diagram Group, 2000.
Covers several thousand ethnic groups plus provides
selective information on historical themes, individual
African countries, and biographical information.
Ref. DT2.E53 1997 Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa.
London: AltaMira, 1997.
A one volume encyclopedia that emphasizes early history
and archaeology of Sub-Saharan Africa.
DT20.G45 General History of Africa. London:
Heinemann, 1981-1985. 8 vols.
Sponsored by UNESCO, each volume is edited by a native
African specialist.
Ref. DT17.C65 2001 Historical Dictionary of Pre-Colonial
Africa. London: Scarecrow, 2001.
Contains over 2,000 entries on pre-colonial Africa.
- Country Information
Ref. DT351 .A37 Africa South of the Sahara. London: Europa, 1971-date. annual. Earlier editions in stacks.
Important annual survey of main political, economic and social developments of individual African countries. Also includes developments for continent as a whole and regional organizations.
African Historical Dictionary Series. (Reference
collection. Check for individual call numbers.)
Contains entries for important names, places, etc. in
the history of individual African countries
Country
Studies/Area Handbook Series
A U.S. government produced series of monographs
on individual countries throughout the world. There is
a volume for most African nations. This series is well-written
and contains extensive bibliographies. Electronic versions
of volumes published since 1988 are available. Paper copies
of the full collection located in the Documents Collection
(SuDoc D101.6/6:) on level one of Woodruff Library.
EIU
Country Reports
The Economist Intelligence Unit is the world's leading
provider of country intelligence, providing up-to-date,
reliable and impartial analysis of worldwide market trends
and business strategies. EIU continuously assesses and
forecasts political, economic and business conditions
in almost 200 countries, and provides insight into how
companies are responding.
EIU
VIEWSWIRE
This Economist Intelligence Unit service provides
daily highlights of key economic, political and business
developments worldwide. In addition to updates to the
EIU Country Reports, EIU Viewswire includes summaries
of regulatory, trade, industry, and investment analysis.
U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. Chiefs of State & Cabinet
Members
Also known as World Leaders, this site provides a list of the President, cabinet members,
the Governor of the Central Bank, the country's Ambassador
to the U.S., and its U.N. Representative for all countries
from Angola to Zimbabwe. Paper and microfiche copies are
available in documents.
United
States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook
Information on geography, people, government, economy,
transportation, communication, defense for individual
countries. Prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
A paper copy is available in the Documents Collection,
Pr Ex 3.15.
U.S.
Department of State. Background Notes on Africa
Contains information on the geography, people,
government, economy, history, government and political
conditions, principal government officials, foreign relations,
defense, and more for each country with which the US has
diplomatic relations. Paper copies are also available
in Documents Collection, S 1.123.
World Bibliography Series (Reference collection.
Check for individual call numbers).
This series, which is available for many African countries,
contains annotated lists of books and articles dealing
with all elements of the nation.
GA1341 .M3 1997 Maps and Mapping of Africa: A Resource
Guide by John McIlwaine. New Providence, N.J.: Zell,
1997.
G2445 .B37 2000 Maps of Africa to 1900. A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign by Thomas J. Bassett and Yvette Scheven. Urbans-Champaign: University of Illinois Library. 2000. A checklist of almost 2500 maps form the early 16th to the end of the nineteenth centuries accompanied by extenisive essays detailing the historical importance of early African maps.
The map/atlas section of the Woodruff Library's Reference
Collection houses a number of titles related to Africa
including:
G2446 .K3C6 1992 Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests:
Africa/ The World Conservation Union. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1992.
G2446.S1 F742 1991 The New Atlas of African History
by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1991.
G2446 .S1 H5 1985 Historical Atlas of Africa by
J.F. Ade Ajayi. Hasko, Essex: Longman, 1985.
Maps are also found in the stacks, e.g.
G2566 .E625C5 1994 The Atlas of Apartheid by A.
J. Christopher. London: Routledge, 1994.
There is a rapidly growing collection of electronic maps related to Africa. Check the following frequently updated lists for links
Africa South of the Sahara: Maps includes extensive links to online African maps and atlases.
Maps of Africa, a guide to downloadable maps compiled by Joseph Caruso of Columbia
Selected digital maps:
16th-20th Century Maps of Africa. Northwestern University . Currently includes 113 antique maps.
Africa Interactive Maps (CD-Rom) G8200 1998 .A3. Second copy in Reference. Includes over 700 maps along with graphics, statistical tables, photographs and short texts.
AfriTerra Library in Boston is one of the largest collections of rare African maps in North America. Many have been digitized.
Geo e-Links Africa is a unique online information resource for maps related to sustainable rural development in Africa.
Maps of Africa, Stanford University. Includes the Oscar I. Norwich collection of maps of Africa and Its islands, 1486- ca.1900.
Perry Castanda Map Collection. African Maps. Digital maps from one of the most comprehensive collections African maps housed at University of Texas.
United Nations. Relief Web - Africa Maps includes a large selection of maps related to humanitarian disasters.
Other important African map collections are housed at Boston University, University of Illinois and University of California, Berkeley. Maps can generally be located by seaching the library catalog and restricting format to "maps." Some have specialized databases with map listings.
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- MAJOR PRINTED INDEXES AND DATABASES
The following sources have particular relevance for
African Studies but African materials can be found in
many other indexes as well. Use the Database
Locator by Subject to find key electronic indexes
for fields such as anthropology, religion and political
science. Use the subject
research guides to find even more information
on resources for individual fields.
The most important electronic index for Africa is:
. Africa-Wide: NiPAD includes over 2 million records from over 40 different databases (and growing) with entries for books, periodical and news articles, maps and musical recordings and more. Among the databases included are IBICUS (development information from Francophone Africa) African Studies Abstracts, South African Studies.
Other specialized indexes:
Ref Z3503 A34 Africa Bibliography. Manchester, England:
Manchester University Press, 1984-. Annual.
Covering mainly the social sciences and humanities, this
extensive annual listing of books, essays, and articles
offers the latest publications in African studies (entire
continent). Covers approximately 600 journals. Arrangement
is geographical and by subject. Contains an author and subject
index. Current publisher is Edinburgh University Press in
association with the International African Institute, London.
AfricaBib.Org
Africabib is a combination of databases providing
access to periodical and other material on Africa. The two
major databases include Africana Periodical Literature,
a bibliography of over 36,000 citations from 300 periodicals,
covering the entire range of topics relating to Africa.
The other large database is African Women's Database
which, in addition to including citations pertaining to
women in Africa, includes conference papers, as well as
references to theses and dissertations. A large and detailed
bibliography entitled Women Travelers, Explorers and
Missionaries to African 1763-2001 can be found on Africabib.
Ref Z3503 U53 Africa South of the Sahara; Index to Periodical
Literature 1900-1970. Library of Congress. African Section.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1971-. 4 vol. 1st-3rd supplement. 5
volumes.
An important bibliography, gleaned from European research
institutes and some 1,500 periodical titles that emphasize
the social sciences. It includes citations to some 3,000
African literary works.
African
Studies Abstracts/African Studies Centre Catalog
Produced by the African Studies Centre, Leiden,
The Netherlands, each quarterly issue contains about 450
abstracts of collective volumes, journal articles and chapters
from edited works, arranged geographically. Some 240 journals
are regularly scanned. Almost half of these are published
in Africa. Emphasis is on material in African studies (south
of the Sahara) and third world development emphasizing social
sciences and the humanities. About half of the entries are
in English. Library has the earlier title, 1983-1994. African
Studies Abstracts and its predecessor, Documentatie
blad, are available in paper, Ref Z3501. L37. Now included in Africa-Wide: NiPAD and the general catalog of the African Studies Centre, Leiden.
All Africa.com
Current news from over 125 African media outlets, including newspapers, news agencies and publications all over the African continent. Also includes selected African-related reports, speeches, press releases and announcements from governments, non-governmental organizations and other newsmakers, inside and outside of Africa. Includes the archive of the Africa News Service back to 1997. Emory subscription allows use of premium search engine.
Cooperative African Newspapers Project
Electronic
finding aid for to locate African newspapers held in North American libraries and elsewhere.
Ref Z3501 C8 A Current Bibliography on African Affairs.
African Bibliographic Center. Washington D.C: Greenwood
Periodicals for the African Bibliographic Center, 1973-2002.
Quarterly.
This three part work offers bibliographic essays, book reviews,
original studies and a listing of newly published books,
articles, government documents, and visual aids. Most citations
are annotated. Includes about 2, 000 entries each year.
Until vol. 30 (1999/2000) arrangement was primarily geographical,
the current arrangement is by broad subject with a geographical
index. Subject focus has also shifted to include more anthropology
(including medical) and archaeology. Includes North Africa.
Now published by Baywood Publishing.
Ref Z3503 I53 International African Bibliography. Bibliographie
Internationale Africaine. London: Internationale Africaine
Institute, January 1971-. Quarterly.
Serving as a continuation of the bibliography of current
publications in the journal Africa, 1929-1970, this
quarterly lists current books, articles, and papers. Includes
over 4000 citations each year. Arrangement is geographical.
Has unique indexes by ethnic group and language. Currently
published in association with the Centre of African Studies
at the Library, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London by K.G. Saur.
- SELECTED OTHER :
Academic
Search Complete
Indexes scholarly journals in the social sciences,
business, humanities, general science, multi-cultural
studies, and education as well as major daily newspapers
such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Full-text
is available from 1990. Spanish version also available.
Africa
Index: Selected Articles on Socio-Economic Development
Online version (since 1996) of printed source
(HC 800. A1U54) which publishes bibliographies on a wide
range of topics. Produced by the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa.
African Journals Online
offers table of contents and abstracts for 50 journals
published in Africa in a variety of fields.
African Studies
Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Search their web catalog for citations from African
Studies Abstracts as well as their general collections.
Note that African Studies Abstracts is also included
in Africa-Wide NiPAD .
AFRICANA
CONFERENCE PAPER INDEX is a searchable database
maintained by Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern
of their sizable collection of conference proceedings. The
collection is largely in English or European languages.
Click on "Special NU Databases" button in NUcat,
the Northwestern University Library catalog to reach the
database.
ANTHROPOLOGY
PLUS is one of the most important research tools
available in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
Anthropology Plus combines Anthopological Literature
from Harvard University and Anthropological Index
from the Royal Anthropological Institute, UK into a single
database. Covers journal articles, reports, edited works
and obituaries in anthropology and related fields. Coverage
goes from late 19th century to the present.
Ref Z3501 S34 Bibliographies for African Studies, 1970-1986.
Compiled by Yvette Scheven. London; New York: H. Zell Publishers,
1988.
This publication cites several thousand bibliographies issued
as books, articles, parts of edited volumes, etc., relating
to sub-Saharan Africa.
Ref Z3501 A1 B52 Bibliographies for African Studies,
1987-1993. Compiled by Yvetter Scheven. London; New
Jersey: Hans Zell Publishers, 1994.
Updated version of the above title. Many find Scheven's
work is an excellent starting point for research.
Columbia
International Affairs Online is an important site
for foreign policy information. It includes books, conference
papers, reports etc. from a variety of public policy centers
including the Carter Center
ELDIS
contains full text articles on many African topics
related to development and the environment.
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF AFRICANA BIBLIOGRAPHY
A refereed online journal of bibliographies on any
aspect of Africa. Bibliographies must have at least 75 entries.
H-Africa
This is an academic discussion list that also includes
a table of contents service for academic journals dealing
with Africa.
HISTORICAL
ABSTRACTS
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the
present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are
covered in America: History and Life). Historical
Abstracts includes information on articles indexed since
1970, and on books and dissertations from 1979. A print
version is available (Z6205 .A534).
HUMAN RELATIONS AREA FILES COLLECTION OF ETHNOGRAPHY
is a cross-cultural collection of full text information
on all aspects of cultural and social life around the world.
First issued on microfiche (mic. 848 ) and now available
electronically
as eHRAF, HRAF allows users to find information on individual
cultures and to compare cultures. Over 50 African groups
are represented. A list
of cultures available in all formats is available.
INDEX
ISLAMICUS
Indexes books and journals in European languages
on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.
Ref Z3501 I542 International African Bibliography, 1973-1978:
Books, Papers in African Studies. Edited by J. D. Pearson.
London: Mansell Press, 1982.
A cumulation of the quarterly issues from 1973-1978 of the
title bibliography. This work indexes all of the Africa
except Egypt.
INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION
(GENEVA)
This website has a number of useful features about
national parliaments throughout the world including directory
information and the Parlit Database which contains citations
to articles, books, and reports dealing with national parliaments
elections, and related topics.
JSTOR
This is an important source for the full text of
back runs of (no current issues) for major journals including
African Affairs and Journal of African History.
You can also search the collection by author, subject, etc
LEXIS
NEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSE
This database provides access to news, business,
medical, educational and legal sources. The sources include
international, national, and regional newspapers; magazines;
trade journals; newsletters; wire service reports; and transcripts
of television and radio news programs.
PAIS
INTERNATIONAL
A selective list of the latest books, pamphlets, government
publication, reports of public and private agencies, and
periodical articles relating to business, economic and social
conditions, public administration, and international relations,
published throughout the world. Print version available
(Ref. Z7129 P92) Succeeds Public Affairs Information
Bulletin and P.A.I.S. Foreign Language Index.
POPULATION
INDEX
Indexes books, journals, working pages and other
materials on population topics. A print version is available
through 1995, (Z7164 .D3P65).
PROJECT
MUSE
Provides access to scholarly journals published by major
university presses. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature
and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts,
cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies,
and many others. Includes Africa Today and Research
in African Literature.
QUARTERLY
INDEX OF AFRICAN PERIODICAL LITERATURE
An online version of the print index published by
the U.S. Library of Congress' Nairobi Office. Indexes over
300 journals from 9 African countries. Paper copies and
microficheare also available in Ref. 23503 Q38 and LC 1.30/
8-4 in Documents Collections.
RESEARCH
LIBRARY at Proquest
Formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. Covers publications
from academic journals and popular magazines in the humanities,
social sciences, general sciences, and business. Full text
available starting in 1991.
SD
ABSTRACTS
Contains abstracts of USAID funded research on Africa.
Many of the full text reports can be located in Development
Experience Clearinghouse.
WEB
OF SCIENCE
A unique database that allows you to follow the
WEB of footnotes from an original article to those which
have cited it. Despite the title, the WEB covers social
sciences, arts and the humanities in addition to science.
The database can also be used to search for articles by
subject, author, journal, and/or author address. This is
an electronic successor to Science Citation Index,
Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts &
Humanities Citation Index, all from 1975 to the present.
References from WOS databases may be exported to EndNote.
WORLD
NEWS CONNECTION
WNC is an online news service that offers an extensive
array of translated and English-language news and information.
Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, including
African, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic,political,
scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.
Goes back to 1994 and succeeds the microfiche of the Foreign
Broadcast Information Service housed in the Documents
Collection on Level One of Woodruff Library. An electronic
index to the microfiche collection of FBIS
Daily Reports (1975-96), including the Daily
Report for Sub-Saharan Africa, is also available.
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There are a number of excellent meta-sites for African
Studies. Some of the most important are:
Africa
South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources (Stanford,
Karen Fung)
A huge, well-Organized site covering Sub-Saharan Africa.
African
Studies: Columbia University (Joseph Caruso)
Includes Union List of African Newspapers Project: Electronic
Newspapers of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Directory of Africana
Scholars.
African
Studies WWW (Penn. Ali Dinar)
Resources on Health and Diseases in Africa (Penn.)
Important organizations:
African
Studies Association (Rutgers)
Professional association of U.S. African scholars.
Africa
South of the Sahara has an excellent list of African
organizations and programs throughout the world.
Emory sites:
Institute
of African Studies
Provides a detailed overview of African Studies at Emory including
faculty, courses and special programs. Includes a database of Woodruff Library's Film, Media and Video Resources for African Studies
Bemba
Home Page
A guide to information on Bemba, a language spoken by 5 to
6 million people in Zambia and neighboring countries, is maintained
by Debra Spitulnik in the Anthropology Department.
Selected
Health Systems of Africa
Contains information on a proposed book and companion web
site to provide an in-depth review on the health systems of
individual African countries.
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HOLDINGS
Primary Source Material at Emory:
The Emory Libraries have rich collections of primary source material for African Studies. These include extensive missionary archives, papers of explorers, politicians/diplomats and government documents (see additional information on official documents below). These collections are listed in EUCLID but holdings in microfilm are easily located through a specialized gateway which also contains helpful annotations. Warning: the gateway is currently limited to major microfilm sets and reflects holdings in Woodruff Library only. It does not always include the latest collections.
EMORY MICROFILM GATEWAY
Includes annotated listings for major microfilm sets in the Woodruff Library. Look under the categories "Africa," "Religion," and "Slavery."
Beyond Emory:
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES (CRL)/COOPERATIVE MICROFORM PROJECT (CAMP)
CRL houses a wide variety of primary sources, including missionary materials, government publications, newspapers, etc. that are available for extended loans to Emory researchers. Their catalog is one of the first places to search for primary sources not held at Emory. CRL has a topic guide for African Studies which covers major collecions only. CRL publishes a Focus on Global Resources newsletter which has had several issues of interest: "Religion and the Modern World" (Summer 2007) and "England in Africa" (Spring 2007) . CAMP is an area studies program within CRL devoted to preserving unusual publications and primary resources related to Africa. Check the CAMP page, especially under "Collections," for important materials. CRL is currently purchasing microform copies of the German Colonial Archives which include documents regarding Namibia, Togo, Cameroon and Tanzania.
- OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS: GUIDES
AND INDEXES
Important primary source information on Africa is found in the
publications of the United States government, the United
Nations, various international organizations and the
publications of countries such as Great Britain. The
following General Libraries Subject Guides will help
you locate this information:
British
Parliamentary Papers Research Guide
Foreign
Country/Government Research Guide
Government
Documents General Research Guide
International
Organizations/Nongovernmental Organizations Research/Subject
Guide
United
Nations Research Guide
In addition there are a number of specialized guides
to either the official publications of African countries
or descriptions of the official records of a country
that contain information on Africa. The African Section
of the Library of Congress produced several of these
guides to countries such as Kenya and Uganda and these
are found in the Documents Collection on Level 1, under
the general call numbers "LC." Also check the Emory Microfilm Gateway for collections of government publications related to former British African colonies.
A sampling of other guides are:
Ref.Z3508.P71P551 African Population Census Reports:
A Bibliography and Checklist. London: Hans Zell,
1985.
Mic.Ref. HA154 C87 Current National Statistical
Compendium Guide Bethesda,MD: CIS.
Guide to a microfiche collection of statistical yearbooks
including the statistical yearbooks of a number of African
countries on microfiche (Mic. 1253).
Ref.DT532.W47 1992 French Colonial Africa: A Guide
to Official Resources by Gloria Westfall. London:
Hans Zell, 1992.
Ref. Z7164 G7G83 1997 Guide to the Official Publications
of Foreign Countries. 2nd ed. Bethesda, MD: CIS,
1997
Doc. LC1.12/2:Af8/2/785-975 The United States and
Africa: Guide to U.S. Official Documents and Government
Sponsored Publications on Africa, 1785-1975 compiled
by Julian W. Witherell. Washington: Library of Congress,
1978.
Doc. LC41.12:Un3 The United States and Sub-Saharan
Africa: Guide to U.S. Official Documents and Government
Sponsored Publications, 1976-1980 compiled by Julian
W. Witherell. Washington: Library of Congress, 1984.
- IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS COLLECTIONS RELATED TO AFRICA at EMORY
Following is a selective list of large print collections of documents related specifically to Africa at Woodruff Library. Check the Emory Microfilm Gateway for other documents collections related to Africa, particularly the British Colonies.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs--Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, 1848- .Series G, Africa. JX632 .B769 1848-1914, 1914-1939; JZ632 .B767 1940-1945; JZ632 .B777 1946-1950, 1950-55 on order.
Confidential Prints are diplomatic reports, dispatches and other papers intended for limited circulation within the British government.
JQ 1881 .A2 I73 Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Colonies Africa. 70 vols.
HT 1161. I73 Irish University Press Series of British Parlimaentary Papers: Slave Trade. 95 vols
Both are useful subsets of the most important materials found on these subjects in the larger British House of Commons Sessional Papers collections which the library has in microfiche (microfiche 684). See the British Parliamentary Papers Guide for more information on parliamentary papers and procedings.
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- DISSERTATIONS
An excellent list of electronic and print lists of
dissertations is found on the Africa
South of the Sahara web site. Some of the more
important titles:
ASA News, "Recent Doctoral Dissertations"
- by Joseph J. Lauer and others.
Each issue of the African Studies Association (U.S.) newsletter,
ASA News, carries a list, by subject, of recent
American, Canadian, and U.K. dissertations
American
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