Research Guides: African History: Secondary Sources

African History
- Secondary Sources
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Secondary Sources for African History

These databases provide access to a wide range of scholarly materials about the history of Africa.

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
African Journals Online
Database of African-published journals covering a wide range of scholarship and includes a number of Open Access journals that are freely available to everyone.
Browse the content of these Open Access journals or search across all content, but search results will contain citations and abstracts for content to which we do not subscribe.
AfricaBib.org
English language database indexing articles from multi-lingual journals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. Includes the following bibliographic databases: Africana periodical literature, African women, Women Travelers to Africa, Islam in Africa, Kenya Coast, Water & Africa, & Education in Africa.
Cambridge Histories
Covers a range of subjects focusing on history, but also includes literature, political philosophy, religion, theatre, and music.
Historical Abstracts
Index to scholarly articles covering world history (with the exception of the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present
Index Islamicus
International bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, covering from 1906 to the present.
JSTOR
Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines.
LibrarySearch
Covers items owned by the UO Libraries, regional partners, and articles and other scholarly research materials.
Oxford Reference
Language and subject dictionaries and reference works
Web of science core collection
Web of Science Core Collection (1965-present). Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.
WorldCat
WorldCat provides access to library catalogs from around the world. The database contains millions of bibliographic records describing books, journals, maps, musical scores, recordings, videos, manuscripts, etc.

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