Africa-wide InformationThis link opens in a new windowExplore a multidisciplinary collection with extensive coverage of Africa and African studies, as well as information on a wide variety of topics from Africa-based publications and organizations. This collection contains citations for scholarly sources, including dissertations, research reports, and monographs. Coverage: contains primary sources. Some full text.
Historical AbstractsThis link opens in a new windowExplore the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present, including military history, women's history, history of education, history of science, and more. This collection includes secondary source articles from journals, as well as books and book reviews. Note: for United States history, use America: History and Life; for medieval history, use Iter. Coverage: varies. Full text.
Additional Databases
AfricaBibThis link opens in a new windowSearch for publications covering topics including Africana periodical literature, African women and women travelers to Africa, Islam in Africa, the Kenya Coast, water and Africa, and education in Africa. Coverage: varies. Citations only.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern AfricaThis link opens in a new windowAccess Southern African material, including periodicals, local newspaper reports, national publications, United Nations documents, photographs, speeches, interviews and more, that mostly covers the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Coverage: 1950 to 1994, contains primary sources. Some full text. This purchase was funded in part by the Mary Moser Memorial Library Fund.
African Journals Online (AJOL)This link opens in a new windowExplore African-published scholarly journals, many of which are open access. Coverage: 1990s to current. Some full text.
Alternative Press IndexThis link opens in a new windowAccess citations and some full text articles from alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. This index is international in scope with its central focus on socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Coverage: 1969 to present. Some full text.
Anthropology PlusThis link opens in a new windowSearch this online version of "Anthropological Literature" from Harvard University plus "Anthropological Index" from the UK's Royal Anthropological Institute to find citations for essential anthropological literature. In addition to journal articles, this collection includes citations for reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage: late 19th century to present. Citations only.
AnthroSourceThis link opens in a new windowAccess the journals, newsletters, and bulletins published by the American Anthropological Association, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist and Cultural Anthropology. Coverage: varies. Full text.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)This link opens in a new windowAccess research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies. This collection includes working papers, policy briefs, scholarly journal articles, ebooks, and videos. The Economist Intelligence Unit supplies comprehensive country surveys, including in-depth political and economic data and detailed maps. Coverage: 1996 to present. Full text.
Country Studies / Area HandbooksThis link opens in a new windowAccess titles from the Country Studies/Area Handbook series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army and written by researchers affiliated with the Library of Congress's Federal Research Division. These titles provide descriptions and analyses of lesser-known countries or regions where United States military forces might be deployed. Coverage: 1988-2015. Full text.
World Digital LibraryThis link opens in a new windowAccess multi-lingual cultural heritage materials from countries and cultures around the world. Coverage: antiquity to early 21st century, contains primary sources. Full text.
World Heritage Sites - Africa (Aluka/JSTOR)This link opens in a new windowAccess primary sources that provide visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. This collection includes photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, excavation reports, travelers’ accounts, maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research. Coverage: 1500s-2010s, contains primary sources. Full text.
Primary Sources
Age of ExplorationThis link opens in a new windowAccess diaries, journals, logbooks, manuscripts, rare books, correspondence, scientific and government documents, maps and charts, objects and early film footage from five centuries of European maritime exploration. Coverage: 1420-1920, contains primary sources. Full text.
Apartheid South AfricaThis link opens in a new windowAccess letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists' biographies and first-hand accounts of South Africa's apartheid regime from British government files. Coverage: 1948-1980, contains primary sources. Full text.
Confidential Print: AfricaThis link opens in a new windowAccess papers generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices, covering the modern period of European colonization of the African continent from the British Government’s perspective. Coverage: 1834-1966, contains primary sources. Full text.
Empire OnlineThis link opens in a new windowAccess manuscript and rare printed sources documenting cultural contacts and literature of empire from a number of cultural and ethnic viewpoints. This collection features sources relating to Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism. Coverage: 15th to the 20th centuries, contains primary sources. Full text.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlements, and Colonial EncountersThis link opens in a new windowExplore the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa, and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas. Coverage: mostly the 18th and 19th centuries, contains primary sources. Full text.
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural ExchangeThis link opens in a new windowExplore significant trade commodities through a range of manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, rare books, and more. This collection includes information on chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits. Coverage: 1500 to the present day, contains primary sources. Full text.
Slavery, Abolition, and Social JusticeThis link opens in a new windowAccess documents, maps and essays covering the varieties of slavery, its legacy and continued existence, and social justice perspectives. Coverage: 1490-2007, contains primary sources. Full text.
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and ConquestThis link opens in a new windowAccess primary documents including monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering key issues of economics, world politics and strategy during the European powers' "Scramble for Africa." This collection is part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO). Coverage: late 18th century to 19th century, contains primary sources. Full text.