The print versions of the following key indexes and continuing bibliographies are kept in the Africana Reading Room. Links are provided to online databases.

• Africa Bibliography
• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
• African Studies Centre Leiden database
• African Women's Bibliographic Database
• American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 2 vols.
• Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature
• Black Studies Center
• Black Studies on Disc
• Cooperative African Newspapers Project
• Current Bibliography on African Affairs
• Index Islamicus
• International African Bibliography
• Liberation Journals Index
• Middle East: Abstracts and Index
• Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature