Research Guides: African Studies: Secondary Sources: Academic Articles & Databases

General Article Databases

Social Sciences & Historical Focus:

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online archive of peer reviewed/scholarly journals in all disciplines.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly articles covering world history (with the exception of the US and Canada) from 1450 to the present

Persee
French database of academic articles in the social sciences. All content is in French.

Literary Focus:

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical materials for scholarship in literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Covers essay collections, dissertations, monographs and peer reviewed/scholarly journals.

African Journals & Databases

These databases and collections of journals focus on publications from African countries. Some are collections of journals, that are organized by their country of publication and arranged for browsing, while others are searchable databases of articles from journals published throughout the continent.

AfricaBib.org. Africana Periodical Literature This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals from 29 African countries. Organized into broad subject areas (Economics, Education, Law, Literature, Politics, Transportation, etc.).
African Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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.