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Subject Related Indexes & Databases
- Africa-Wide: InformationOffers multidisciplinary information and provides the opportunity to search across 40 integrated databases sourced worldwide. It combines South African Studies and African Studies.
- International African Bibliography OnlineThe International African Bibliography Online (IABO) is a specialist bibliography of African Studies and contains 140,000 entries of the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015 and about 4,000 new publications will be added per year. The IABO can be browsed by categories and offers detailed search options.
- JSTORPlease note and remember that the journals in history are not all the ones that exist, maybe some of the best. Please be sure to use the Advanced search and make sure your terms are in the title or abstract, not full-text, for the most relevant results.
- Historical abstractsScholarly literature in history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
- African Journals OnLineAfrican Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. Tufts doesn't have access to all the journals.
- Africana Periodical LiteratureThis freely available resource indexes the periodical literature of Africa with a focus on the social sciences.Where possible links to the full-text of the article have been included. While the priority has been to index the scholarly literature of Africa, selected NGO reports are also indexed.
- Aluka Digital LibraryThe Aluka Digital Library includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials related to Africa. These range from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides in many disciplines including history, anthropology, botany, economics, and more.
- Middle East and Africa DatabaseThe Middle East and Africa Database (or MIDA) is a bibliographic and full-text database that provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America. This is the electronic version of Middle East, Abstracts & Index.
- Race Relations AbstractsRace Relations Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.
- Women's Studies InternationalCovers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Includes the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
- ATLA Religion Database. 1949- .Covers all religions and parts of the world.
- Film & Television Literature IndexFilm & Television Literature Index is a bibliographic database that provides indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
- Film Literature IndexThe only comprehensive index to the periodical literature of film, television, and video from academic, professional, and literary publications, journals of opinion, and popular news sources. Online coverage for 1976-2001. For 1973-1975, and 2002 forward, use the print volumes at Tisch Reference Indexes [HUM] Z5784.M9 F45.
Interdisciplinary Indexes
- Arts and Humanities Citation IndexProvides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in history and many other journals in the humanities. Part of Web of Science.
- Humanities IndexThis database is an international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, covering over internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. Don't let humanities discourage you from using it, it includes economics and political science!
- Social Sciences Citation Index. 1956- .The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, etc.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. 1951- .The IBSS has more than two million references to articles and books going back to 1951 in the social sciences. It is produced by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Compliments EconLit and PAIS, always search together.
- Dissertations & Theses: Full TextA comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world offering over 2 million titles, more than 930,000 of which are available in PDF format for immediate download. New full-text titles are added weekly.
- Gale Academic OneFileGale Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Full text articles are available in both PDF and HTML. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
- LexisNexis AcademicSome African resources are available. Use the Sources tab to browse by geographical location or search for keywords.
