Africabib.org consists of two continually updated bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa. The Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database "indexes over 27,000 articles from over 246 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent." The second bibliography, African Women's Database, contains more than 20,000 citations from 1986 to the present and indexes primarily books, government documents, articles appearing in edited books, periodical and journal articles, and Masters theses and PhD dissertations. A small number of the entries in the two featured bibliographies provide links to online texts, but in the main, these are simply bibliographic records. Users may search by subject, nation, region, author, periodical, title, and "free text." Because the search engine performs a Boolean operation on selected fields, we advise users to specify the minimum number of fields needed to retrieve relevant entries. Otherwise, searches are likely to return false "no records found" results. The third bibliography -- Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography -- is static and may be browsed either alphabetically by author or by the country(ies) that serve as a work's primary subject matter. This Website has been created and maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, the director of the Institute for Economic Advancement (IEA) Research Library at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.
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