Y338: African Politics
Selected Reference Works
Encyclopedia of African History. Research Collection Reference DT20 .E53 2005
*** Europa World Plus
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Includes contact information for officials and features information on over 1,700 international organizations. Online library database.
Political Handbook of the World. Wells Library, Research Collection, Reference and Undergraduate Reference: JF37 .P7
Finding Books
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Finding Articles: Databases
More relevant databases can be found at the Political Science and African Studies databases pages
The online path to these databases is: Library Homepage -› Databases by Subject -› Political Science -or- African StudiesGeneral & Interdisciplinary Databases
*** Academic Search (EBSCO)
Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. Coverage: from the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago.Subject Databases
Africa-Wide NiPAD
Formerly called African Studies; contains over 1 million searchable records from the South African Studies and African Studies Databases. Coverage: 19th Century-
*** Columbia International Affairs Online
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, offering fulltext of working papers from research organizations, abstracts of foreign policy journal articles, etc. Coverage: 1991 onward
PAIS International
Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government. Coverage: 1972-present
Historical Abstracts:
Index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present. Consult America: History and Life for coverage of U.S. and Canada. Coverage: 1954-present
*** World Development Indicators (WDI)
Statistical database featuring economic, social, environmental data since 1960 for countries of the world. Coverage: 1960-present.
*** Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy. Coverage: 1975-Additional Resources
Access UN: Use to find current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications, 1944 to the present.
Armed Conflict Database: Armed Conflict Database is a project produced by the IISS Defence Analysis Department that provides interactive and user-friendly nformation on armed conflicts worldwide.
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit: Country & Business Intelligence): Use for economic profiles of countries.
IGO Search Engine: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4173
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Sub-Saharan African Governments: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004216246918580239447:kzrbc4uvlna
Search across all of the websites of the governments of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Citing Your Sources
No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout (APA, MLA and Chicago). These can be found by visiting: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/cite/.
APA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. Washington, DC: APA, 2001.
BF76.7 .P83 2001 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
MLA: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003
LB2369 .G53 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
Chicago: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
Z253 .U69 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
Chicago Manual of Style Online: The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.Questions?
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Marion Frank-Wilson, Librarian for African Studies; 855-1481; mfrankwi@indiana.eduLast modified on 9 February 2009
