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- University of Connecticut Library Collections and Services
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- Links to Internet Resources in African Studies
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Library Guides and Helps
- How To Guides to Electronic Reference Services
- Research Guides to Print and Electronic Resources
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Library Databases
General Databases
- Academic
Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
Lexis/Nexis is available only to UConn faculty and students. - Research Database
Locator
The University of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 Web-Based, commercially-produced research and citation databases. Most of these resources are limited to the University of Connecticut community. -
InfoTrac SearchBank
An abstracting and fulltext service which provides indexing to 1550 general interest journals. - Databases Useful for African Studies
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PAIS
Public Affairs Information Service, an index to political, economic, and social issues in current debate. -
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes a variety of literature in all fields of theoretical and applied sociology, 1963+ Sociological Abstracts is international in scope and many foreign language journals are included. - World News
Connection
Offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information from around the world.
Electronic Journals and Citations
- Citation Styles from Online!
- JSTOR (Journal STORage) Journals
- Project MUSE Journals - Johns Hopkins University Press journals
- New Jour: Electronic journals and newsletters
- Journals in African Studies:
- Africa News 1988- (via Academic Universe)
- Africa Analysis 10/3/97- (via Academic Universe)
- Africa News Service 12/17/98- (via InfoTrac)
- Africa Today via Project Muse ;
Academic Universe ; WilsonWeb
Links to Internet Resources in African Studies
- A-Z of African Studies on the Internet by Dr. Peter Limb (MSU Africana Library)
- Africa Online
- African Studies Internet Resources (Columbia University)
- African Studies Links (Harvard University)
- African Studies Organizations & Departments (Academic Info)
- Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford)
- All Africa News Wire
- African Studies on
H-Net
H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. The edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe. - Talking Africa Open
Directory
The Talking Africa directory contains links to more than 7000 web sites in or about Africa - organized by topic, region and country. - WWW Virtual
Library: International Affairs Resources - Africa
A list of search engines and web directories for country, language, or region-specific searches maintained through Elizabethtown College (Pennsylvania)
Associations
- African Studies Association
- African Unification Front
- Africa Union (formerly Organization of African Unity)
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African Organizations, Institutes, & Associations
(University of Pennsylvania)
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