African History: Articles
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Academic Search CompleteScholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
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AfricaBibIndex to articles dealing with all aspects of African studies.
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African e-Journals ProjectDirectory of African journals with some full text available.
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African Journals OnLine (AJOL)AJOL provides access to African-published research and scholarship covering a full range of issues and subjects, some full-text.
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African Studies AbstractsSummaries of journal articles on Africa.
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African Women Bibliographic DatabaseIndex to various books, journals, and other materials in English on African women.
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Index IslamicusA bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world.
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JSTORFull-text back issues of hundreds of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's.
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Quarterly Index to African Periodical LiteratureAn index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly by the Library Congress from 29 African countries.
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Historical Abstracts with Full TextIndex and full text of scholarly articles covering world history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.