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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:  1984+

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: varies. Includes over one thousand leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous titles. Beginning in 2011, current issues for more than 150 journals will be available on JSTOR as part of the Current Scholarship Program.

ATLA Religion Database Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled Some full text available
Coverage: 1949-present. Produced by the American Theological Library Association, covering biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only ArticleLinker enabled
Coverage: 1951-present. An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. For book reviews, search title of book and REVIEW in Publication Type.

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.

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

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
Online Access Note:  Click the box "search within this title" after typing in your subject.  Use Journal Finder to determine if we have access to the full text of an article.

Encyclopedias

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

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.

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 / David H. Shinn, Thomas P. Ofcansky
Call Number: CASE Ref. DT381 .S55 2004
Located in Library
This new 2004  edition provides entries for each of Ethiopia's 85 ethnic groups and covers a broad range of cultural, political, and economic topics. The important historical role of missionaries and the combination of conflict and cooperation between Christians and Muslims in the region are also reviewed. And, finally, many of the dictionary entries highlight relations between Ethiopia and its neighbors - Eritrea, Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Kenya, and Sudan."--Book jacket

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

Data (World Bank) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group provides free access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.

OECD iLibrary Books Papers and Statistics Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
1998+    The OECD iLibrary contains books, articles, and statistics on international economics.  In addition to the data, it contains analysis.  Users can browse by theme or country.  One can perfom searches across all the content or restrict searches to specific content - e.g. just statistical data.  The resource also provides a number of tools to allow users to reformat the data and create charts.

IMF eLibrary Data (International Financial Statistics only) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Coverage: 1900-present. Provides time series data for balance of payments,banking, exchange rates, interest rates, employment, and other economic concepts. (note: there are multiple libraries of data at the IMF eLibrary site - Colgate only subscribes to the International Financial Statistics - we do not subscribe to the other data libraries)

Web Sites

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

Images

Visualizing Cultures (MIT) Unrestricted Resource Resource contains images

Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. Images of every sort are introduced and examined here—in partnership with contributing institutions and collections, and with the collaboration of experts devoted to transcending the printed word and hard-bound text.

Biographical Information

Dictionary of African Biography (2011) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
2011 ed.  Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press)  is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life. This resource tells the story of the African continent through the lives of its people.

Dictionary of African biography (1977)
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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