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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary resource containing a large number of peer-reviewed journals.
This is good place to start for most topics, including all sciences, religion, law, history, psychology, political science, criminal justice, literature, current events, sociology and communications.
Abstracts and full-text for most journal articles; Varies by title many from 1980s-present
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of scholarly journal literature
Interdisciplinary journal archive of titles in the arts, botany, business, ecology, general science, history, mathematics, and the social sciences. Many journal runs go back to the 19th century and before with subject coverage going back to the medieval period and up to within 3-5 years of current (depending on journal title).; Full-text and full image; Varies by title; current within 3-5 years; Coverage is constantly expanding with the addition of more scholarly journals to the collection. Moving wall publishes to within 3-5 years of most titles that are still in publication.

AfricaBib
Free website with record links to over 200,000 articles from Africa-focused scholarly journals, including full-text options wherever available. Originally created by David Bullwinkle, AfricaBib is hosted and maintained by Leiden University's African Studies Centre.
African e-Journals Project
Collection of eleven open-access academic journals published in Africa made available through Michigan State University's African Studies Center and the MSU Library's digital repository.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
Provide access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.
Full-text; 1827 - 1998
HistoryMakers Video Archive This link opens in a new window
Over 80,000 stories assembled from oral history interviews with more than 1,500 historically significant African Americans.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
Online resource that "seeks to cover the entire range and sweep of African history, from the earliest stone tool–using hominids to the most recent religious movements, and from new interpretations of the Mau Mau movement in Kenya to recent reconsideration of the Rwanda genocide and its aftermath."

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Email Me

Contact:

kyle.jenkins@richmond.edu

(804)-289-8262

Boatwright Library, Room #183

261 Richmond Way
Richmond, VA 23173

Subjects: Africana Studies, Anthropology, Data & Statistics, Education, First Year Seminar, Geography, International Education, Psychology, Sociology

OneSearch This link opens in a new window
A discovery tool that searches most of the University Libraries' collections, including books, journal articles, newspapers, dissertations, music, and video recordings.