Electronic resources for African Studies

  • Aluka**
    • Aluka is a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Aluka is now integrated into JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org

  • eBook University Press Collection (EBSCOhost)
    • The eBook University Press Subscription Collection contains more than 32,500 multidisciplinary titles from more than 90 of the best University Presses in the world. Covering a variety of subjects such as Technology, Science, Literature and Humanities as well as a comprehensive range of audience levels from basic introductory level texts to high level research materials, the University Press collection provides a significant enhancement to scholarly research to any library. Subscription includes Complimentary access to Arabic eBook Collections.

  • Gale Ebooks (GVRL)
    • Gale eBooks not only provides the top titles covering the most studied subject areas, it complements other eBook platforms. Offering more than 23,000 (and counting!) academic eBooks from most prestige 85 different publishers, optimized for search, discovery, and integrated with tools, such as G-Suite for Education and Microsoft Office365 – allowing students to spend less time looking for credible information, and more time diving into it.

  • JSTOR
    • JSTOR is a full-text archival database consisting of the complete backfiles of important scholarly journals. It does NOT include publications within the last 2 to 5 years. AUC library acquired JSTOR EBA, provided access to all backlist ebook publication prior to 2019.

  • Oxford Journals
    • Full text journals covering law, social sciences, and arts & humanities.

  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    • Oxford Scholarship Online currently provides AUC with unlimited access to over 20,000 Oxford University Press books, including some of their latest published titles and prestigious series. These titles cover all subjects and disciplines due to the EBA subscription in 2022. Oxford Scholarship Online is a searchable, full-text database of classic scholarly books from Oxford University Press online up to and including Jan 2009. AUC Libraries provide access to the collections Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology. In addition AUC Library has access to Biology (to 2018),Economics and Finance (to 2018) plus Apr.2019-Mar.2021 updates, Law Top Up 2018-19 (105 titles) plus 2019-20 & 2020-21 updates, Literature Apr 2018- Mar 2021 updates, History top up 2017-19 (232 titles), Psychology April 2019-Mar.2021 updates and Religion (to 2016) & top up 2017-19(270 titles), Social Work (to 2018). *Availability online is based on the year of Oxford Scholarship online publication and not the print publication.