• Africa Bibliography not online
  Printed annual covering books, essays, and articles primarily in the social sciences, environmental sciences, humanities and arts. Shelved in Regenstein's first-floor reference collection.
  
  
• Africa South of the Sahara : Index to Periodical Literature, 1900-1970 not online
  Printed index covers material in the social sciences and material on African life and culture. Includes some articles from the 19th century and a literary index of about 3,000 African literary works. Shelved in Regenstein's first-floor reference collection along with three supplements.
  See the Library of Congress web site for additional publications on Africa.
  
  
• AfricaBib
  Provides access to the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, the African Women's Database, and additional material. Compiled by Davis Bullwinkle at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.
  
  
• African Index Medicus
  International index to African health literature and information sources provided by the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) with technical support from the World Health Organization.
  
  
• African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
  Searchable database of African-published journals. Supported by INASP. Includes table of contents and article abstracts.
  
  
• ASA Online
  Quarterly overview of journal articles and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden.
  
  
• A Current Bibliography on African Affairs not online
  Print bibliography includes original essays, book reviews, and citations for books, articles, government documents, and visual aids. Shelved in Regenstein's first-floor reference collection.
  See the publisher's web site for additional information.
  
  
• International African Bibliography. Bibliographie internationale africaine. not online
  Printed bibliography covering articles and monographs. Continues the bibliography of current publications which appeared in the journal Africa, 1929-70. Shelved in Regenstein's first-floor reference collection.
  
  
• Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
  Index of African publications acquired by the Library of Congress Office in Nairobi, Kenya.

Depending upon the nature of your research, you may want to use an index with a subject-specific focus. General interest/multidisciplinary indexes provide broad coverage and are useful as well. You will find more indexes in the library's Database Finder. Use the Advanced Search and "Select Subject Category" to limit to databases useful for specific disciplines. Then choose "Articles and Indexes" under "Select Database Type" for a list of journal collections and indexing and abstracting services available online. "Subject Guides" (listed among the Research Guides by Subject), also include lists of relevant indexes.

• Academic Search Premier U of C Library subscription
  Multidisciplinary indexing and abstracting service covering journals of general interest as well as scholarly publications. Includes extensive full text. Click on "Publications" for information on the coverage of specific journal titles or to browse publications by title or by subject & description. (African is included in the subject & description of many more publications than Africa.)
  
  
• Archive of African Journals
  To expand free, online access to journals published in Africa, Michigan State University's African e-Journals Project has digitized articles from eleven social science and humanities journals.
  
  
• JSTOR U of C Library subscription
  Back issues of major scholarly journals. Search or browse African Studies journals.
  
  
• Project Muse U of C Library subscription
  More recent issues of scholarly journals, including ten African Studies titles.
  
  
• SA ePublications U of C Library subscription
  Access to numerous journals (the social sciences & humanities collection) within Sabinet Online's South African electronic publications.

Reading Printed Journals
Search the library catalog for individual titles or browse the journals in the Current Periodicals Reading Room on Regenstein's second floor--or in other areas of Regenstein and in other library buildings.

General Information about Journals
Find out more about journals of interest by using catalogs or union lists or directories and analytical tools such as these:

• ISI Web of Knowledge U of C Library subscription
  Provides access to Journal Citation Reports and other resources in addition to the Web of Science citation databases.
  
  
• The ISSN Portal U of C Library subscription
  Find bibliographic records and ISSN numbers for serials. Additional information about the ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is available on the ISSN home page.
  
  
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory U of C Library subscription
  Entries include information about which databases index the content.

Tip: When you see a button next to an interesting article citation, click on the button to pull up a list of options. There may be links to the full text of that article. Find It! at the University of Chicago Library explains the library's Find It! service in greater detail.

The Library's How Do I Find...? guide to finding articles provides additional tips and explanatory material.