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Articles

Academic Search Premier Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Africa Bibliography Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
A core index for African Studies. 
Print: from 1984 to 2005.  Case Ref DT3 .A35 
Online access: 
After 2006 it can be found online on Project Muse as part of the journal "Africa : the journal of the International African Institute."  Connect and use the "search this journal" box to search within both the journal and the bibliography.

eHRAF World Cultures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 1997-present. Scholarly journals, books, research reports, and dissertations on anthropology, sociology, ethnology, and culture with an emphasis on non-Western cultures. formerly titled: eHRAF Collection of Ethnography

Historical Abstracts On campus use only
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women`s history, history of education, and more.

Humanities & Social Science Index Retrospective Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Coverage: 1907-1984. Allows search of a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences.

International African Bibliography Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
A core index to African studies periodicals and books. Each issue contains two sections: articles and monographs (i.e. books). Within each section, arranged by country and then by subject.
Print: from 1973-  present  Case Ref DT3 .I58 
Online Access:  2000- present

Encyclopedias

Cambridge Histories Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Currently the collection contains more than 258 digitized volumes  from the esteemed Cambridge Histories series covering 15 subject areas. Useful for locating background information in almost any subject in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.

Encyclopedia of Food & Culture Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2002 ed. Presents articles on food and its place in human culture and society, including entries on everything from food preparation, distribution and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and health, and cultures and cuisines.

Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Call Number: CASE Ref. DT373 .E53 2003 vol. 1-3 Located in Library
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2003-<2007 >

Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience Call Number: Case Ref DT14 .A37435 2005 Located in Library
A highly regarded reference work with strong focus on the African continent and its descendant cultures in Latin America, the Caribbean and North America. To a lesser extent it also covers the African presence in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world.

Countries & Their Cultures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2001 ed. Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information.

Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara Call Number: CASE Ref. DT351 .E53 1997 vol. 1-4 Located in Library
New York : C. Scribners Sons, 1997

Encyclopedia of African history / Kevin Shillington, editor Call Number: CASE Ref. DT20 .E53 2005 Located in Library
New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005. volumes 1-3.

Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history Call Number: CASE Ref. DT29 .E53 2003 Located in Library
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
1996 ed. Lists and describes more than 1,500 global cultures. It is the one of the primary resources for historical, social, political, economic, linguistic, religious, and other information on most cultures. Additional cultures are covered in the supplement (which is a separate resource)

Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2002 ed. Lists and describes more than 100 global cultures not covered in the original 10 volume set. Users need to search both the original set and this supplement as there is not overlapping coverage.

Europa World Plus Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: current. the online version of the Europa World Year Book, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.

New Encyclopedia of Africa Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2008 ed. Addresses the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent countries, some of them newly emergent in world commerce and others deep in conflict. Covers issues facing the continent such as global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism.

Oxford Art Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available Resource contains images
Coverage: current. Grove Art Online has been relaunched as Oxford Art Online. Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, also offering thumbnail art images, line drawings, and extensive image links.

Newspapers

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 1976-1996. Translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from foreign countries. Series 1 through 6 have been released. They cover Africa, Asia, East Europe, Latin American, and the Middle East.

LexisNexis Academic Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: varies, generally 1980s-- . A multi-disciplinary database, with especially strong news, business and legal material.

Newspapers -- International

Access World News - International Edition Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: varies by title. Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. This title does not include U.S. news.

Dictionaries

Historical dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea. 2nd ed. Call Number: CASE Ref. DT381 .R57 1994 Located in Library
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, c1994

Historical dictionary of pre-colonial Africa Call Number: Case Ref DT17 .C65 2001 Located in Library
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001

Bibliographies

Ethiopia Call Number: CASE Ref. DT373 .M85 1995 Located in Library
Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1995 World bibliographical series ; v. 179

Ethiopia, a comprehensive bibliography Call Number: CASE Ref. DT373 .M55 1989 Located in Library
Boston : G.K. Hall, c1989

Data/Statistics

African development indicators Call Number: CASE Ref. HC800.A1 A356 Located in Library
The library owns the editions of this wonderful World Bank statistical resource from 1997 forwards. The latest edition is in Case Reference. Older editions are in Case Main.

International Financial Statistics Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 1950-present. Provides time series data for balance of payments,banking, exchange rates, interest rates, employment, and other economic concepts.

World Development Indicators Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 1960-present. WDI includes more than 900 development indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global.

Web Sites

Ethiopia [electronic resource] : a country study Unrestricted Resource
The Library of Congress provides an encyclopedic overview of Ethiopia.

Biographical Information

An African biographical dictionary (New York : Grey House Pub., 2006) Call Number: Case Ref DT18 .B76 2006 Located in Library
An up to date listing of current and historical personages.

Dictionary of African biography Call Number: CASE Ref. DT18 .D55 vol. 1 -3 Located in Library
New York : Reference Publications, c1977-

Atlases

Historical atlas of Africa / general editors, J.F. Ade. Ajayi and Michael Crowder Call Number: CASE Atlases G2446.S1 H5 1985 Located in Library
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

The New atlas of African history / G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville Call Number: CASE Atlases G2446.S1 F73 1991 Located in Library
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
Maps produced by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated.

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