Library Guides: African Studies Library Guide: Find Articles

Intro: Why so many databases?

No two databases have the same contents, keyword indexes, and algorithms. Below you'll find a variety of general academic and specialized databases to find journal articles in the field of Political Science. Test and compare more than one to do a thorough information search!

General Academic Databases

Some of the most useful general academic databases for finding journal articles are:

Library Search
Library Search is a discovery tool that pulls many Tulane library resources into one single search. Use filters to limit your search to Articles and/or Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles to access academic journal content.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and preprint archives. NOTE: off-campus users need to sign-in and authenticate with your Tulane user name and password to activate TU Links and check for holdings accessible via Tulane.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) This link opens in a new window
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), a German database, is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic resources like journal articles, dissertations and theses, and research reports. It is especially strong in international and open access content.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Our broadest, most general full-text database that includes both popular and scholarly periodicals. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, sciences, and humanities.
Web of Science Core This link opens in a new window
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Interdisciplinary database includes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports. Includes citation searching (see how many times a paper has been cited). Coverage: 1976 - present. NOTE: Use your Web of Science/Endnote username and password or create a new username and password to access InCites, Journal Citation Reports, and/or EndNotes from Web of Science.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Databases include International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Sociological Abstracts, PAIS Index, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Proquest's Education and Criminology collections, and more. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
JSTOR Advanced Search This link opens in a new window
A trusted archive of scholarly journals, primary sources, and books. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The most recent 3-5 years of journals are generally not available; this is known as a "moving wall."

African & Africana Studies Databases

Africa-Wide Information This link opens in a new window
Offers unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. Includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations.
International African Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window
The International African Bibliography Online (IABO) is a leading specialist bibliography of African Studies. It already contains 140.000 entries from the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2017 with new entries added every year. The IABO can be browsed by categories and offers detailed search options. NOTE: When you find a title you're interested in, check Library Search (https://library.tulane.edu/) to see if we have access. If we don't, request the item through Interlibrary Loan (https://illiad.tulane.edu/).

Africa Bibliography
This online bibliography is a database that links out to publications on Africa, principally in the social and environmental sciences, development studies, humanities and arts, published since 1984. Some items from the medical, biological and natural sciences are included.
Black Studies Center - Journal Search
Search more than 300 Black Studies journals through the Black Studies Center's Periodicals Database, formerly known as International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP). This database covers journals and magazines from the United States, African nations, and the Caribbean, dating back from 1902 to the present. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the region, including North Africa. Coverage includes humanities and the social sciences.
Africa Knowledge Project This link opens in a new window
Africa Knowledge Project (known as AKP) promotes Critical African Studies. It disseminates Africa-centered, evidence-based knowledge on Africa and African Diaspora. Included in the Tulane subscription are the African Music Database, Biafran War Database, the archive of the Kiswahili Story Database and the Enriching Resource Document & Language Archive. Full-text document PDFs are download only.

Race & Ethnicity Studies Databases

Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.