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Databases & Article Indexes (114) E-Journals (428) Almanacs & Factbooks (2) Associations, Organizations & Societies (3) Biography (3)
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Publishers & Books Sellers (3) Research Guides (23) Schools & Research Centers (4) Search Engines & Portals (15) Technical Reports (5)
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Primary African Studies Databases & Article Indexes

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

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African Studies Centre, Leiden, Catalogue
Also Known as: African Studies Abstracts
Journal article and book chapter abstracts and bibliographic records for books, periodicals, government publications, brochures and pamphlets, and microforms on Africa. ...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary
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    Thesauri: African languages, African peoples, African polities
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Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database
Also Known as: Bullwinkle
Bibliographic citations, with subject, country and region, and author indexing, for the periodical literature on Africa....   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies.
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eHRAF World Cultures
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
The Collection of Ethnography, established 1949, currently contains nearly one million pages of information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present. Each culture case contains a variet...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
Supplemental URLs
    eHRAF User Guides
    Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM): Topics and Subjects
    Culture List for All Formats (Outline of World Cultures - OWC)
    Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research
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Index to South African Periodicals
Also Known as: ISAP Online
Bibliographic citations with indexing for selected articles published in South African periodicals....   [more]
Holdings: 1942-present.
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    NLSA New ISAP interface

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International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region
Also Known as: Reseau Documentaire International sur la Region des Grands Lacs Africains
Grey literature on social, political, and economic current history of the African Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Rwanda and the surrounding countries -- Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Democratic Republique...   [more]
Holdings: 1990 to 2009.
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International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
Also Known as: IIBP
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the...   [more]
Holdings: Time period varies depending on journal title

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Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
Also Known as: QIALP
Indexing for Eastern and Southern Africa-published periodicals, emphasizing current affairs and social and political issues....   [more]
Holdings: mid 1980s-present.
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Important African Studies Databases & Article Indexes

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19th Century UK Periodicals, Part 2: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary, and Colonia
Also Known as: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary & Colonial
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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A "working" filmography of religious practice in Africa
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Abstracts in Anthropology
- from Sage (former Baywood titles)
Indexes journals in cultural and physical anthropology, as well as linguistics and archaeology. ...   [more]

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Academic Video Online
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Africa Bibliography
- from Cambridge Journals
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Holdings: 1984-

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African Activist Archive
Digital collection on U.S. supporters of African struggles against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s....   [more]
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African Index Medicus
Also Known as: AIM WHO AHILA
Bibliographic citations to medical and public health literature from Africa. Produced by Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with the technical support of the World Heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1961 to present (currently, 1996)
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Journals indexed by African Index Medicus

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African Studies Center (Leiden) web dossiers
Topical literature surveys on African issues....   [more]
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African Studies Companion
Also Known as: Hans Zell, African Research Online
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
5th Ed. Contains updated entries including URL changes. ...   [more]

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African Women's Bibliographic Database
Bibliographic citations, with subject, country and region, and author indexing, for English-language literature on African women....   [more]
Holdings: 1986-present.
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African Writers Series
Key texts of modern African literature with an emphasis on the history of post-colonial writing. Release Seven of this online edition includes over 230 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictio...   [more]

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AGRIS
Also Known as: International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
The Food and Agriculture Organization's bibliographic database for worldwide research publications in agriculture in all its aspects, including geography, history, education, legislation, and agricult...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Agrovoc subject thesaurus
    AGRIS subject category codes

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Aluka: Struggles for freedom in Southern Africa
Also Known as: Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa Collection, Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
Online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa, built collaboratively. Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa is available at Penn. Other collections not available at Penn: Afri...   [more]

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Annotated bibliography of selected research on civil society and health
Describes literature on civil society / state interactions in national health systems, civil society contributions to pro-poor, health equity policies, and civil society influence on global health pol...   [more]
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Anthropological Index Online
Content is in Anthropology Plus. Index to current periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, London. Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and ph...   [more]
Holdings: 1957-.
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Anthropology PLUS
Also Known as: Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature
Combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, in addition...   [more]
Holdings: Anthropological Index: 1957-present. Anthropological Literature: Early 19th century to present

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AnthroSource
Indexes journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)....   [more]

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Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1988
Section I: 1948-1966, Section II: 1967-1975, Section III: 1976-1980, Section IV: Resistance, Sanctions and Reform...   [more]
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ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and cr...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Help - technical help
    Help - general index
    Browse Penn collections in ArtStor
    Search ArtStor

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Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving
The Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing verified references (except as noted) to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European la...   [more]
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Black Women Writers
- from Alexander Street Press
Searchable fulltext for writings by women from Africa and the African diaspora worldwide. Includes more than 460 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts in more than 100,000 pages in English, French, Fr...   [more]

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British and Foreign State Papers 1812-1968
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British Periodicals
Also Known as: Proquest British Periodicals
British Periodicals tracks the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and into the 20th ce...   [more]
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CAB Abstracts (complete)
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-present.
Supplemental URLs
    CAB Thesaurus

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Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Also Known as: CMS I, CMS II
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Current bibliography (Society for Ethnomusicology)
Features a bibliography, videography, filmography, and discography of materials of interest to ethnomusicologists....   [more]
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Database of African Theses and Dissertations
Also Known as: DATAD-R
Bibliographic information with abstracts on dissertations and theses produced by African universities. Also describes dissertations and theses produced by other institutions and held by the participan...   [more]
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David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project
A collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when stra...   [more]
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DevTracker (UK AID Development Tracker) / UK DFID
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Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
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Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

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Empire online
Manuscript and printed materials pertaining to the history of colonialism, 1492-1962. Primarily British. ...   [more]
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd Ed
Also Known as: Encyclopedia of Islam
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EQUINET Bibliography on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
Annotated bibliography published and grey literature, with hyperlinks to fulltext where available. Topics covered include: values, policies and rights; health equity in economic and trade policies; po...   [more]
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1929
- from Archives Unbound
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: German Colonies to League of Nations Mandates in Africa 1910-1929
- from Archives Unbound
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Italian Colonies in North Africa and Aggression in East Africa, 1930-1939
- from Archives Unbound
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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1933
- from Archives Unbound
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Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions 1835-1910
- from Archives Unbound
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FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
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Supplemental URLs
    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

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GIGA dok-line Afrika
Online bibliographies on current issues and topics concerning Africa....   [more]
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Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
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Global Health
Also Known as: Global Health Archive
Global Health consists of more than 1.2 million record. Research content covering public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology. ...   [more]
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Global Health Observatory (GHO) WHO country data
The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as w...   [more]
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Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

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HRH Global Resource Center
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Index Islamicus
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world in general, including Muslims in Africa and Asia and major Muslim minorities worldwide. Topics covered inc...   [more]
Holdings: 1906-present.

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Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Also Known as: WHO IMEMR
Bibliographic citations with indexing for health literature published in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,...   [more]
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IndexCat
Also Known as: Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 1880-1961
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing to the holdings of largest medical library in the late nineteenth century. Now useful for research in the history of medicine, history of science, and als...   [more]
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International African Bibliography (database version)
Covers scholarly literature on Africa, c.140,000 records with 4,000 added each year. 1971-present, quarterly updates....   [more]
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Supplemental URLs
    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

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Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASC Leiden web dossier)
A "web dossier on Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa to coincide with the conference on Islam, Disengagement of the State, and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa held at UNESCO in Paris on 12-13 May 2005....   [more]
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Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) 1957-1994
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JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
Supplemental URLs
    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)
    JSTOR on Mobile devices

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Kenya Indexing Project
Also Known as: Indexkenya.org
Online index of articles published in Nairobi, Kenya newspapers, 1980 to present, currently covering 1986 through 2002. Use Interlibrary Loan-Books to request newspaper issues for articles found in th...   [more]
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Liberation Movement in Africa and African America
- from Archives Unbound
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Liberia and the U.S.: Nation-Building in Africa, 1864-1918
- from Archives Unbound
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Livingstone Online
Digital museum and library providing the diaries, correspondence, and ephemera of David Livingstone, medical missionary, explorer of Africa, and 19th-century celebrity. Includes spectral-imaged versio...   [more]
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Manuscripts Relating to Slavery: New-York Historical Society
The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. T...   [more]
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Media/Materials Clearinghouse
A fulltext collection of international health communication materials: pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, job aids, electronic media and other media/materials designed to prom...   [more]
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

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NAMLIT
Bibliographic database of materials on Namibia....   [more]
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Pamphlets from the Harvard College Library
As one of a few institutions to have consistently collected pamphlets published during the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, Harvard holds tens of thousands of these pamphlets, covering d...   [more]
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ProQuest History Vault: U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
Also Known as: ProQuest History Vault (Vietnam War) , Vietnam War
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Critical Bibliography (2nd ed)
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Rastafari Ephemeral Publications From The Written Rastafari Archives Project
- from Archives Unbound
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Recent Doctoral Dissertations about Africa
Identifies US and Canadian PhD dissertations on Africa, abstracted in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses or Dissertation Abstracts International, 1980-(2011). Produced by Joseph Lauer, Michigan State Uni...   [more]
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Refworld
Fulltext documents collection from UN High Commissioner for Refugees....   [more]
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REGARDS
Le Centre de Documentation REGARDS...   [more]
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SARDC Virtual Library
Also Known as: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
Bibliographic databases, fulltext collections, and directories on southern African environment, gender, governance, sustainable democracy, media, disaster management, and regional economic development...   [more]
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

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Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs & Expositions: Visions Of Tomorrow
Also Known as: Worlds fairs, World's Fair, Smithsonian Collections Online
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South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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South African Journal of Information and Communication
Formerly Southern African Journal of Information and Communication. Open access journal focusing on trends in electronic communications policy and regulation on the African continent; competition in A...   [more]
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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Also Known as: Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts
- from Taylor & Francis Online
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Swahili Manuscripts Database
Catalog of manuscripts held by the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) library. Microfilm of the MSS are on order for Van Pelt Library. Some image and sound recording materials are availab...   [more]
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The Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
Also Known as: Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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UNIDO Industrial Development Abstracts
Bibliographic database of UN Industrial Development Organization project reports. Documents are available free in PDF format from UNIDO....   [more]
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Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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    Web of Science Tutorials
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West African Arabic Manuscript Database
Database featuring descriptive records of 20,000 Arabic manuscripts from West Africa, including Timbuctu, Nouakchott, Segou, Niamey, Kano and Boutilimit collections. The database and search interface ...   [more]
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WHO IRIS - WHO Regional Office for Africa
Institutional repository for the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Africa. Includes fulltext publications from the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, journal articles, and other material...   [more]
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World Bank Africa Household Survey Databank
Bibliographic descriptions, with many fulltext documents, of survey data and documentation on socioeconomic household surveys conducted in Africa....   [more]
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World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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World Bank Projects & Operations database
Inventory, with fulltext project reports, on World Bank projects worldwide, 1947-present....   [more]
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World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
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World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
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    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

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Bibliography of Asian Studies
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

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CAB Abstracts
Formerly produced by Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, now Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International, this database comprises international coverage of veterinary medicine, agriculture, fo...   [more]
Holdings: 1910 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    CABICODES List
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EIU Country Commerce
- from EIU - Economist Intelligence Unit
Guide to regulations, operating conditions, and corporate practices in more than 60 countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1996 - Present

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FAO Corporate Document Repository
Also Known as: Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository
Fulltext electronic library of FAO publications and meeting documents and related publications from non-FAO sources. Topics covered include agriculture, economics and nutrition, fisheries, forestry, s...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Mostly 1986-present.
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Film Index International
Index of films and film personalities that is an unmatched reference work for entertainment films and biographical information about directors, producers, actors and more. in collaboration with the Br...   [more]

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Filmakers Library Online
- from Alexander Street Press
Filmakers Library is a multidisciplinary collection of over 1,400 documentaries made from 1974 to the present by independent filmmakers from around the world that can now be streamed over computer. Th...   [more]

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Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews
A multimedia archive of ballads and other oral literature in Judeo-Spanish collected from 1957 to 1993 by Samuel G. Armistead (University of California, Davis), the late Joseph H. Silverman (Universit...   [more]
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Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Incites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: ISI JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]

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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
International law, comparative law, and municipal law of countries outside the US, UK, and Commonwealth....   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences Covers all aspects of the study of language including linguistics, language acquisi...   [more]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
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    Serials List
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Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

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Population Index
Covers fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historic...   [more]
Holdings: 1986 to 2000.
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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