Africana Indexes and Continuing Bibliographies

Accessions List: Eastern and Southern Africa. Every 2 months. 1968-. 015.676Un33a Latest issues in AFRICANA, older issues in STACKS. Last issue of year includes cumulative index. Annual serials supplement (some on CD-ROM) and annual publishers directory issued separately. Produced by the Nairobi Office of the Library of Congress. West Africa Supplement, 1998-.

Africa Bibliography. annual. 1984-. 016.96 Af832 AFRICANA. Indexes articles, chapters in edited volumes, and monographs. Easy to use with geographical sections subdivided by country and then by subject.

African Book Publishing Record. quarterly. 1975-. 015.6 Af7. Latest in AFRICANA; older in STACKS. Updates African Books in Print, 1993. 015.6AF8. AFRICANA, REFERENCE.

African Studies Abstracts. Quarterly. 1994-. 015.6 D6591. Latest issues in AFRICANA; older issues in STACKS. ONLINE AS PART OF THE AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE (LEIDEN) DATABASE. Indexes 230 journals (50% from Africa) and chapters in edited volumes. Arranged geographically, with author and poor subject indexes. Excludes North Africa. Continues Documentatieblad, 1968-1993.

American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987. 016.96 Am35 1974-1987 and 1886-1974. 016.916 Am35. AFRICANA. For updates, see ASA News in AFRICANA or Dissertations Abstracts ONLINE. Arranged by geographic area/country; author, school and subject indexes.

Black Studies on Disc. ONLINE FOR IN LIBRARY USE ONLY. Includes the collection of the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public and the Center's Index to Black Periodicals; material on Africa and diaspora.

Current Bibliography on African Affairs. every 2 mos. 1964-. 016.9605 C936. 1991- in AFRICANA, older issues in STACKS. Includes all types of literature; but haphazard in periodicals covered. Arranged by subjects and geographical areas.

International African Bibliography. quarterly. 1971-. 016.916 In82. 1986- in AFRICANA; older issues in STACKS. The most complete index for Africana, listing articles, chapters in edited volumes, and monographs. Classification by subjects and geographical areas, but indexing is unfriendly.

Middle East: Abstracts and Index. annual. 1978-. 016.95605Mi. REFERENCE, older in STACKS.

Arranged by country; author, corporate organization, named people, and subject indexes.

Quarterly Index to Periodical Literature, Eastern and Southern Africa. quarterly, 1991-. 016.96005Li. Latest issues in AFRICANA; older issues in STACKS. ONLINE. Produced by the Nairobi Office of the Library of Congress. Arranged by subject with author, geographic area, subject, title, and journal indexes.

Al Kagan/July 2000
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign