This guide is designed for new researchers who need to find articles, sources, and get started with research in topics related to the history of Africa from early times to the present.
Reference Sources
- Encyclopedia of African History and Culture byCall Number: Wilson Library Quarto DT3 .P27 2005ISBN: 9780816051991A comprehensive encyclopedia on African history with broad cultural and geographic coverage.
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience byCall Number: Wilson Reference Quarto DT14 .A37435 2005ISBN: 9780195170559Publication Date: 2005More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies This link opens in a new windowSearch all aspects of International Studies from theory and pedagogy to policy and practice, from identities, sexuality, and human rights to qualitative and quantitative methods, and more.
African Studies Databases
- Black Studies Periodicals DatabaseFind articles from scholarly journals in the field of Black Studies from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary; spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of importance to the Black Studies discipline.
- Africa Commons: History and Culture This link opens in a new windowSearch more than a million items from archives, libraries, museums, galleries, other cultural organizations within Africa, and organizations outside of Africa. Includes books, magazines, newspapers, historical journals, government documents, posters, manuscripts, letters, diaries, ephemera, photographs, art, music, videos, and oral histories.
- Africa-Wide InformationProduced by NISC South Africa, Africa-Wide Information is a multidisciplinary database of research and publications by Africans and about Africa. It sources information from Africa, Europe and North America. Limited to 1 user at a time.
Interdisciplinary Databases
- Historical AbstractsFind journal articles covering world history from 1450 to the present. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
- JSTORFind full text articles in academic journals or books on the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides articles from the journal's first issue. In some cases the most recent 2-5 years may not be available. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
- PAIS Index (Political Science and Public Policy)PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) searches journals and other sources on issues of political science and public policy. This includes government, politics, international relations, human rights and more.
- Google Scholar (Setup connection to get to PDFs)Use Google Scholar to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, research institutes, and scholarly repositories from colleges and universities. If you are using from off-campus access, change the "Library Settings" to University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Look for the "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" links in your Google Scholar search results to access full text and PDFs. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
Newspaper Databases
- News Sources (Libraries Search) This link opens in a new windowSearch for articles in newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, and newswire feeds across a variety of library databases.
- African Newspapers : The British Library CollectionMore than 60 African historical newspapers from the nineteenth century originally archived by the British Library.
- African Newspapers: World Newspaper ArchiveMore than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
- East African Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull page images of key newspapers from East Africa from the 1940s to the early 2000s.
- Middle Eastern and North African NewspapersKey newspapers published in the Middle Eastern and North African countries in the 20th century. Open Access, except for the following five newspapers: al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية, Egypt), Filasṭīn (فلسطين, Israel), al-Akhbar (الاخبار, Lebanon), al-Riyadh (الرياض, Saudi Arabia), and al-Dustūr (الدستور, Jordan)
Primary Source and Archival Collections
Searching for news sources (newspapers, magazines...)
- News Sources (Libraries Search) This link opens in a new windowThis interface allows you to search for articles in newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, and newswire feeds across a variety of library databases. It includes many, but not all, library news subscriptions.
For more in-depth news research, please consult these detailed research guides:
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