Mary Abdoney
Important Journals
Here are some of the most important journals in the field, with links to recent issues and articles. You will encounter articles from these and similar journals by using the databases listed below.
Africa * History in Africa * Journal of Religion in Africa * Africa Today
Article Databases -- General
Articles in a wide range of publications, including popular, news, and opinion magazines, newspapers, and major academic/scholarly journals.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Excellent starting point. Multidisciplinary article database offers access to more than 16,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, including over 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- W&L Library "Search Everything"An attempt to list all W&L library resources (articles, books, etc.) in one database, although it falls well short of that.
You might give it a try if the more specialized databases in a research guide are not succeeding.
Article Databases -- Specialized Scholarly
These databases specialize in locating articles in scholarly/academic journals and related sources.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
A combination of Harvard's Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index from the UK's Royal Anthropological Institute. It covers hundreds of anthropology and archaeology journals and other relevant scholarly sources, including essays and chapters from edited books, with significant full-text provision.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of sociology and its sub-disciplines, with very good coverage of related areas of study, especially politics. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital archive of over 1,100 important scholarly journals. All issues of each journal are included in full-text except for the most recent 2-to-5 years, based on JSTOR's agreement with the journal's publisher.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to about 600 journals from academic publishers.