IDS 101 Africa in the Global Era
Amadou Fofana, Professor

1. General and Specialized Databases

Oxford Reference Online: 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. Includes The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, Dictionary of Political Biography, etc.

Academic Search Premier: Provides full text for more than 3,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.

LexisNexis Academic: Provides access to full-text information from newspapers, journals, magazines and reference sources with strengths in the areas of current news, business, law, and politics.

Historical Abstracts: Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and dissertations.

PAIS International: Offers access to topics with an international focus, including public policy, publicadministration, government relations, governmental effectiveness, nonprofit organizations, political structures and international relations.

2. Willamette Resources

Mark O. Hatfield Library Homepage

Willamette University Libraries Catalog

Conference: Cultural Heritage Issues: The Legacy of Conquest, Colonization and Commerce , Willamette University, October 12-14, 2006


3. Area Handbooks and other websites

Area Handbook Series: Individual country reports published by the Library of Congress and written by the U.S. Department of State.

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

African Online Digital Library

African Voices

Columbia University Libraries' African Studies Internet Resources

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