SELECTED AFRICAN STUDIES SOURCES

Research Guide

Handbooks, Directories, and Encyclopedias
Country-Specific Series
Indexes, Abstracts, and Continuing Bibiliographies
Statistical Sources
Biographical Sources

HANDBOOKS, DIRECTORIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Africa South of the Sahara. Annual. 316 Af8, latest in AFRICANA, REFERENCE

Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 5 v. Q. 909.0496003 Af83 2005 AFRICANA, UNDERGRADUATE REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. 1997. 4 v. Q.967.003 En19 AFRICANA, REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. 2004 2 v. Q.909.097671 En195 HISTORY REFERENCE, UNDERGRADUATE REFERENCE, ONLINE

Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa. 1997. Q.960.03 En19 AFRICANA

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. 2003. 960.3103 En192 AFRICANA, REFERENCE, HISTORY REFERENCE, UNDERGRADUATE REFERENCE

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. V.9: Africa and the Middle East. 1995. Q.306 En19 AFRICANA, EDUCATION

Middle East and North Africa. Annual. 315.6 M584, latest in AFRICANA, REFERENCE, COMMERCE

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. Annual. 315.6 M584, latest in REFERENCE

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COUNTRY-SPECIFIC SERIES

African Historical Dictionaries Series (Scarecrow Press). Latest in AFRICANA

World Bibliographical Series (Clio Press). Latest in AFRICANA

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INDEXES, ABSTRACTS AND CONTINUING BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Africa Bibliography. 1984-. 016.96 Af832 AFRICANA

African Studies Centre (Leiden) Database ONLINE

Alternative Press Index. ONLINE

Anthropology Plus. ONLINE

Black Studies on Disc. ONLINE

Current Bibliography on African Affairs. 016.9605 C936 AFRICANA, older in STACKS

Historical Abstracts. ONLINE

Index Islamicus. ONLINE

International African Bibliography. 016.916 In82 latest in AFRICANA, older in STACKS

International Bibliography of Economics. 1952-. 016.33 In8 BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

International Bibliography of Political Science. 016.32 In8 EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology. 016.572 In82 EDUCATION & SOC. SCI.

International Bibliography of Sociology. 1951-. 016.301In8 EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

International Political Science Abstracts. ONLINE

Middle East: Abstracts and Index. 016.95605Mi. REFERENCE TABLE INDEX, older in STACKS.

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) ONLINE

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) ONLINE

Quarterly Index to African Periodical Literature. 016.96005LI1 latest in AFRICANA, older in STACKS, ONLINE

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature ONLINE

Sociological Abstracts ONLINE

Women's Studies International. ONLINE

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts ONLINE

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STATISTICAL SOURCES   See also specific country statistical abstracts.

African Development Report. 1990-. Annual. Q.330.96 Af8322 AFRICANA

African Statistical Yearbook. 1974-. 33096 Un35 S1 Latest in AFRICANA; older in STACKS

International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, Oceania, 1750-2000. Q.31 M69i 2003 REFERENCE, HISTORY, UNDERGRAD

World Development Report. Annual. 1978-. 338.9 W893 VARIOUS LOCATIONS; 2002-. ONLINE

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BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

Africa Who's Who. 1996. 960.320922 Af83 1996 AFRICANA

African Biographical Archive. microfiche. REFERENCE

Makers of Modern Africa. 1996. 960.30922 M289 1996 AFRICANA

Who's Who in the Arab World 2003-2004. 315.6 W62 REFERENCE

Al Kagan/June 2006
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