African Studies Subject Guide
Interdisciplinary Programs Liaison Librarian
- Krystyna Mrozek
- Tutt Library Room 201
- (719) 389-6669
- Email me
Getting Started
Finding Books
Searching
Searching TIGER by keyword or subject is often the fastest way to find books about your topic.
For books that we don’t own here at Colorado College, or books that are checked out or otherwise unavailable, use Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog . You’ll find books (and CDs, DVDs, etc.) in libraries across Colorado that you can request and have sent to the Tutt Library circulation desk where you can check them out.
For books not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can request through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat .
Please ask a librarian if you need help with TIGER, Prospector, or WorldCat.
Browsing
Finding Articles
- Academic Search Premier
- Coverage: 1988 - current
- Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
Complete list of databases for African Studies
- African Women's Bibliographic Database
- Coverage: 1986 - current
- Indexes English language materials: books and government documents; articles in edited books; periodical and journal articles; theses and dissertations; conference papers; videocassettes. Some full text.
- Alternative Press Index
- Coverage: 1991 - current
- Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Subjects covered include anarchism, labor, socialism, feminism, ecology, gay and lesbian issues, political and social change.*Password required for full text. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
- Bibliography Of Africana Periodical Literature Database
- Coverage: 1830 - current
- Indexes English language articles from journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. Includes full text from 10 electronic journals.
- The Encyclopaedia Of Islam
- Coverage: historical
- Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.
- Historical Abstracts
- Coverage: 1967 - current
- Covers world history.
- Index Islamicus
- Coverage: 1906 - current
- Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings about Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
Online journal archives
Unlike the subject-specific article databases, these online journal archives don’t concentrate on any one academic subject. Instead, they take leading journals from many fields, or all the journals from one publisher, and provide extensive archives of the full text of those journals online, usually in the form of PDF files.
- Blackwell Journals
- Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's to current
- Searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- Oxford University Press Journals
- Coverage: varies; usually late 1990's - current
- A searchable collection of full text periodicals. Scholarly sources.
- Periodicals Archive Online
- Coverage: 1770-1995
- Fulltext journal collection covering the humanities and social sciences. Includes 500 journal titles covering the first issue of the journal until 1995.
- Project Muse
- Coverage: 1993 - current
- Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.