Select titles for African-American and African studies for which full-text articles are avilable in whole or part.

Electronic Journals List. An alphabetic listing of electronic journals available through the University of Chicago Library. Provides information on availability of full-text coverage. Identifies titles available directly from publishers' websites (such as the University of Chicago Press), and from aggregators, such as Johns Hopkins' Project Muse, The History Cooperative, and the indexing and full-text services listed immediately below.

The JSTOR Journal Browser. Search full-text of major historical journals from their first volumes up through recent years. One may search by natural language or browse each issue. Images of each page are viewable and printable. As of this writing coverage extends to:

  African American Studies

African American Review 1992-1999
BBBBBBlack American Literature Forum 1976-1991
BBBBBNegro American Literature Forum 1967-1976
Callaloo 1976-1994
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 1993-2000
Journal of Negro Education 1932-1997
Journal of Negro History 1916-1999
Phylon (1960-) 1960-1987
BBBBBPhylon Quarterly 1957-1959
BBBBBPhylon (1940-1956) 1940-1956
Transition 1961-1999 (includes links to recent content 2000-2001)

African Studies

African Affairs 1944-1997
BBBBBJournal of the Royal African Society 1901-1944
African Languages and Cultures. Supplement 1992-1996
African Studies Review 1970-1999
BBBBBAfrican Studies Bulletin 1958-1969
ASA Review of Books 1975-1980
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1940-1997
BBBBBBulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London 1917-1940
Canadian Journal of African Studies 1967-1997
BBBBBBulletin of African Studies in Canada 1963-1966
International Journal of African Historical Studies 1972-1999
BBBBBAfrican Historical Studies 1968-1971
Journal of African Cultural Studies 1998-1999
BBBBBAfrican Languages and Cultures 1988-1997
Journal of African History 1960-1997
Journal of Modern African Studies 1963-1997
Journal of Southern African Studies 1974-1999
Transition 1961-1999 (plus links to recent content 2000-2001)

Other titles of special interest

American Historical Review 1895-1999
American Quarterly 1949-1995 (plus links to recent content 1996-2002)
Journal of American History 1964-1999; earlier Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1914-1964
Journal of Southern History 1935-1996
Reviews in American History 1973-1994 (plus links to recent content 1995-2002)
William and Mary Quarterly 1892-2000

A growing number of other important journals in other fields, such as economics, ecology, demography, political science, etc. are also searchable from this location. (Restricted to University of Chicago readers). Note: To print from Library's networked printers, choose Adobe Acrobat Printing, Highest Quality Print from Jstor's print menu.

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Project Muse. Provides full-text access to recent volumes of over 40 journals in the humanities and social sciences published by Johns Hopkins University Press and over 50 journals of other university presses. As of this writing coverage extends to (dates vary, but includes most recent issues):

Africa Today
Callaloo
Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
Northeast African Studies
Research in African Literatures
SubStance
symploke
The Americas
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (archive-only)
The South Atlantic Quarterly
The Southern Literary Journal
The Washington Quarterly
The Yale Journal of Criticism
Theory & Event
Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Transition (archive-only)
World Politics

Ebsco Academic Search Premier. Includes indexing and full text for more than 300 journals for history, as well as full text for an additional 3,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Coverage varies considerably, title by title. Increasingly full text is available for important titles for the last decade.

Africa 03/01/75 to present
Africa Today 01/01/90 to present
African & Asian Studies 01/01/02 to present
African American Review 01/01/92 to present
African Arts 01/01/90 to present
African Development Review 06/01/99 to present
African Journal of Ecology 03/01/98 to present
African Philosophy 03/01/00 to 12/31/00
African Security Review 01/01/02 to present
African Studies 07/01/99 to present
African Zoology 01/01/00 to present
American Historical Review 02/01/75 to present
American Legacy: Celebrating African-American History & Culture 06/01/98 to 12/31/01
American Nineteenth Century History 01/01/00 to present
Blacfax 01/01/90 to present
Black Collegian 03/01/90 to present
Black Enterprise 05/01/90 to present
Black History Bulletin 01/01/02 to present
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/99 to present
Black Issues in Higher Education 07/01/96 to present
Black Scholar Black 06/01/91 to present
Black Theology in Britain 10/01/98 to 10/31/02
Black Theology 11/01/02 to present
Crisis 06/01/93 to 02/28/96
Crisis (The New) 07/01/97 to present
Critical Arts Journal 01/01/92 to present
Ebony 01/01/93 to present
Essence 01/01/92 to present
Ethnic & Racial Studies 01/01/92 to present
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 01/01/98 to present
International Journal of African Historical Studies 07/01/96 to present
Journal of African American History11/01/02 to present
Journal of African American Men 01/01/99 to present
Journal of African Cultural Studies 01/01/98 to present
Journal of African Languages & Linguistics 04/01/01 to present
Journal of American Ethnic History 01/01/90 to present
Journal of Asian & African Studies 07/01/93 to 12/31/01
Journal of Asian & African Studies 01/01/02 to present
Journal of Contemporary African Studies 01/01/98 to present
Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies 07/01/98 to present
Journal of Religion in Africa 02/01/99 to present
Journal of Religious Thought 03/01/75 to present
Journal of Southern African Studies 03/01/90 to present
Nationalism & Ethnic Politics 01/01/00 to present
New African 07/01/00 to present
New Coin Poetry 06/01/02 to present
Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies 05/01/99 to present
Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 09/01/01 to present
Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library 01/01/95 to 08/31/01
Race, Ethnicity & Education 03/01/99 to present
Research in African Literatures 01/01/93 to present
Society in Transition 01/01/97 to present
South African Archives Journal 06/01/90 to present
South African Journal of African Languages 01/01/95 to present
South African Journal of Ethnology 07/01/94 to 12/31/01
South African Journal of Linguistics 01/01/95 to 10/31/00
South African Journal of Philosophy 01/01/96 to present
South African Journal of Sociology 01/01/95 to 11/30/96
Southern African Linguistics & Applied Language Studies 11/01/00 to present
Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 12/01/98 to present
TransAfrica Forum 01/01/90 to 05/13/96
Urban Forum 01/01/01 to present
Urban Studies 08/01/93 to present
Western Journal of Black Studies 06/01/96 to present


Wilson Select Plus. Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text in periodicals from General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Wilson Business Abstracts and many other databases produced by H.W. Wilson, 1994+.

Periodicals Contents Index Full Text (PCI). Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Titles of particular African-American interest include the following, some of which of which provide partial full text.

Abbotts Monthly, 1930-1933
AfroAmericans in New York Life and History, 1977-
Afroamérica, 1945-1946
Alexander's Magazine, 1905-1909
American Visions, 1986-
Amistad, 1970-1971
Black Enterprise, 1970-
Black Man, 1933-1939
BBBBBBlackman, Dec. 1933-Nov. 1934
Black Perspective in Music, 1973-1990
Black Scholar, 1969-
Black World, 1942-1976
BBBBBNegro digest, Nov. 1942-Apr. 1970
CLA Journal, 1957-
Colored American Magazine, 1900-1909
Competitor, 1920-1921
Crisis, 1910-
Crusader (New York), 1918-1922
BBBBBCrusader magazine, Sept. 1918-Aug. 1919
Griot, 1981-
Half-Century Magazine, 1916-1925
Harlem Quarterly, 1949-1950
International Review of African American Art, 1976-
BBBBBBlack Art, 1976-1984
Jet, 1951-
Journal of Afro-American Issues, 1972-
Journal of Negro Education, 1932-
Journal of Negro History, 1916-
Midwest Journal, 1948-1956
National Black Law Journal, 1971-
BBBBBThe Black Law Journal, 1971-1986
National Education Outlook Among Negroes, 1937-1940
Negro Educational Review, 1950-
Negro History Bulletin, 1937-
Negro Music Journal, 1902-1903
Negro Story, 1944-1946
Opportunity, 1923-1949
Quarterly Review of Higher Education among Negroes, 1933-1969
Review of Black Political Economy, 1970-
Slavery and Abolition, 1980-
Urban League Review, 1975-
Voice, 1904-1907
BBBBBVoice of the Negro, 1904-1906


Harper's Weekly was a leading American source for news and opinion during the middle years of the 19th century. Search the full-text by keywords or browse digitized images of all pages of any issue for the period 1857-1877. Note that there is also a digitized version of Harper's Weekly, 1850-1899, included in the Making of America collection (free).