Electronic journals and articles

  • Accessibility

  • Free access
  • Restricted access
  • Always from the Nordic Africa Institute

You can search for articles in a considerable number of full-text journals. Some of the journals are electronic versions of printed journals, which are held in the library and some of the journals are acquired in an electronic version only. We have also collected a good number of open access journals focused on Africa. Furthermore the library has access to a large number of electronic journals through Uppsala University Library.

Below links can be found to databases with both electronic full-text journals and with references to articles.

Africa specific electronic journals from the Nordic Africa Institute library

EJS – Nordic Africa Institute Electronic Journals Service. Search for articles by keyword in text. Also a gateway to thousands of journals with millions of articles. http://ejournals.ebsco.com/home.asp

EIU Country Profile and Report / Africa. Country reports (quarterly with monthly updates) and country profiles (annual), 1996/97-, provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit. http://db.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=allCountries

A-Z lists of Africa specific journals

African Studies Journals @ Wikipedia. List of academic journals related to the field of African Studies, published mainly in Europe, US or Africa. - both with restricted and open access. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_studies_journals

AtoZ. Selected electronic journals focused on Africa, within the fields of humanities, social sciences, politics and economics. More than 500 titles from a range of sources - both with restricted and open access. http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?Id=2749

Find more Africa specific electronic journals

AJOL - African Journals OnLine. A service that provides access to African published research, and increases worldwide knowledge of indigenous scholarship. Full-text articles must be ordered. http://www.ajol.info/

African e-Journal Project, incl. a full-text archive is provided of back issues of 11 scholarly journals published in Africa in the social sciences and humanities and a directory of journals about Africa with links to full text articles. http://africa.msu.edu/AEJP/

DISA. Southern African Freedom Struggles, c. 1950 – 1994. Full and open user-friendly access in the public domain through an online search facility. http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/

Other electronic journals

Electronic journals at the Uppsala University Library. Alphabetical listing of about 15,000 electronic journals made available at the Uppsala University campus. http://link.libris.kb.se/sfxuub/az/uub?&lang=eng

JSTOR. Journal articles in full-text from journals covering various subjects. The articles are scanned from the year the journals started and some of them are from the 19th century. http://www.jstor.org/

Project MUSE. Online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals, of which several with focus on Africa. Check if your institution has access to full-text articles. http://muse.jhu.edu/search/search.cgi
 

   

More e-journals

Our link collection A Guide to Africa on the Internet gives access to free internet editions of African journals and magazines. Please view the heading "News and media" under "Sorted by subjects" or choose a country or a region.

Ask the library

Do you need help to find information, please use our reference service, Ask the library. 

Studying Africa

Learn more about journals in Studying Africa.