About These Bibliographic Databases
About These Bibliographic Databases
Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database
This work was originally begun in September of 1974 as an effort to index all of the issues of an entire periodical/journal that contained information on Africa or was a major source of Africana, and make those citations as a comprehensive source accessible to all. While this endeavor was not completed until 25 years later, no such source exists today other than AfricaBib that indexes the entire runs of periodcals in one source.
This English language database indexes over 50,000 articles from over 415 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. The titles were originally chosen from the library at California State University-Chico and that number were later expanded by using materials from Northwestern University and other major university libraries as well as the Library of Congress.
Each title is indexed from its first day of publication to the present or, either its date of ceasing or a date where the journal or periodical no longer covered Africa on a regular basis. In only in a few cases were titles dropped due to the difficulty in obtaining copies or irregularities in the journal's publishing schedule.
Of the over 415 journals and periodicals indexed, some have ceased being published. Until the mid-1960's few Africana journals were indexed in major indexing tools. This work hopes to fill the gap by indexing Africana materials from the mid-nineteenth century to today all in one index.
A title list of all journals and periodicals indexed, including the years the journals or periodicals were published and indexed is included by a link from the front page of this database.
The titles indexed in this database represent Africana materials published in from over 22 nations within North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
In November of 1999, the database began adding electronic journals to its list. These journal articles are viewable by clicking on the link that reads `See this Document'. We now index ten electronic journals. Todat we include over 2000 articles available from the internet.
African Women's Database
This English language database contains over 30,000 citations from 1986 to current. The database indexes six types of materials: books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.
This database is the outgrowth of a three volume work published in 1989 by Greenwood Press that indexed materials on African Women published during the International Women's Decade, 1975-1985.
In November of 1999 the ability to index hyperlinked documents from the Internet became a reality in the database. This will greatly increase the scope of the database and allow the indexing and viewing of documents from the Internet.
The database indexes everything the compiler can find published in English about African women. If you know of any materials that are not in this index and deserve to be included you can contact Davis Bullwinkle at dabullwinkle@ualr.edu or at either 501 569-8521 or 501 666-9048.
The database indexes current and past conference papers from the following conferences and indexes:
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