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The Research Guides have been developed by librarians to serve as starting points in helping students select appropriate resources for research projects.

Evaluating Sources

How to Evaluate Information Sources

Citing Sources

General Citation Guides
APA Style
ASA Style
MLA Style
Chicago Manual of Style
Turabian
Turabian Citation Guide
Provided by Ohio State University Libraries


CSE Style
American Anthropological Association Style
Citing Specific Databases

Tutorials
Google Guide
"An online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between."


Reading Scientific Papers, Flash Tutorial
Provided by Purdue University


Study Skills - How to Study
A free study skills resource site provided by Mangrum-Strichart Learning Resources


Library Research Tools
Databases A - Z
Online Databases available to Albion College faculty, students and staff. To access databases from off-campus, see Access to Electronic Resources from Off-Campus


EndNote FAQ
Addresses common questions regarding the use of EndNote


Find books, videos, and other materials


Find Journal Articles


Find Newspapers


Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."


Recent Acquisitions of the Albion College Library
Recent acquisitions listed by subject. Users can subscribe to RSS feeds to stay updated.


Library Services
Archives Reference Request


Checking Out Library Materials and More FAQ
Circulation Services encompasses the circulation of library materials, wireless laptops, stack management, course reserves, audio-visual services, student employment, and classroom reservation


Government Documents Information


Information for Faculty


Interlibrary Loan Information


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Software Installation CDs
List of available software includes Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and Publisher), GroupWise and Microsoft XP (for faculty/staff checkout only)


Special Collections (Rare Books and Archives) Information


History, African Research Guide

For research assistance, contact

John Kondelik
or Michelle Gerry
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Find Books & Videos
Albion College Library Online Catalog
The Albion College Library Online Catalog - your one-stop spot to search for books, periodicals, government documents, videos, electronic materials and more!
MeLCat Online Catalog
MeLCat will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form.
WorldCat
Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by thousands of libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Find Journal Articles & More
19th Century Masterfile (Poole's Plus)
Poole's Plus currently contains more than 3.7 million citations to periodicals, books, newspapers (including the New York Times), and government documents from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Africabib.org
The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database). You will also find a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-2004: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography).
Albion College Library - Electronic Journals Home Page
Provides links to more than 2,000 electronic journals available through the Albion College Library.
Arts and Humanities Search
Indexes 1300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Coverage begins in 1980.
Electronic Collections Online
Electronic Collections Online provides indexing and full-text from academic journals in many disciplines. Articles can be viewed online or printed.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Balanced coverage is available through 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, etc.
Full Text Finder
Many journals, magazines, and newspapers are available in full text through online databases. To search for availability of full text articles from a particular source, look for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper by following the appropriate links.
Historical Abstracts
The most prominent index to articles and books for the field of non-U.S. or Canadian history.
Humanities Abstracts
Indexes 400 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Coverage begins in 1984.
JSTOR
Provides indexing and full-text from scholarly journals in many disciplines. Unique, in that coverage for each journal begins with the first volume.
Online Databases - Complete List
A comprehensive list of all online databases.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
This resource lists journal and magazine articles published between 1890-1982, and covers a wide variety of subjects, including African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Biographies, Business, Education, Environment, Film, Fine Arts, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Politics, Popular Culture, Religion, Science, Sports, and Technology.
WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
WilsonSelectPlus Full Text contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
Online Journals
Journal of Modern African Studies
1963 - five years ago
Online Resources
Academic Info: African Studies
Africa Research Central
Africa South of the Sahara
Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List
African Studies Center at MSU
"Founded in 1960, the MSU African Studies Center (ASC) is one of nine Title VI National Resource Centers on Africa designated by the U.S. Department of Education. The Center’s strength is based upon the 160 MSU faculty who provide broad research, teaching, and service on the continent."
AllAfrica.com
"Among the Internet's largest content sites, posting over 1000 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in our searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997)."
BBC News | Africa
BUBL LINK
Catalogue of Internet Resources using the Dewey Decimal System as the primary organisation structure.. Selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
H-AFRICA Home Page
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Africa Maps
Provided by University of Texas Libraries
United Nations World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: Promote international and intercultural understanding; Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
Print Resources
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa
Mudd Level 3 - DT 3 .C35 1981
Cambridge History of Africa (8 volumes). (1975).
DT 20 .C27
Reference Sources
Africa: A Handbook to the Continent.
DT 30 .L38 1966.
African Encyclopedia. (1974).
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 2 .A3.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 14 .A37435 1999
Black Africa: A Comparative Handbook.
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 352.8 .M67 1989.
Chronology of African History. (1973).
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 17 .F73.
Cultural Atlas of Africa. (1981).
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 14 .M84.
Dictionary of African Historical Biography.
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 352.6 1986.
Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. (4 volumes).
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 351 .E53 1997.
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa.
REFERENCE COLLECTION - DT 2 .E53 1997.
Encyclopedia of World History.
REFERENCE COLLECTION - D 21 .E577 1998
History Atlas of Africa.
REFERENCE COLLECTION - G 2446 .S1 1998
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993
REFERENCE COLLECTION - HA 4675 .M552 1998
Suggested Subject Headings
Africa
Africa - Antiquities
Africa - Civilization
Africa - Colonization
Africa - Description and travel
Africa - History
Africa - Politics and Government
Africa, Central
Africa, East
Africa, Eastern
Africa, French-speaking
Africa, Southern
Africa, Sub-Saharan
Africa, West

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