Selected Open Resources
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AfricaBib This link opens in a new windowBibliographic information for Africana social science resources including Africana periodical literature, African Women's literature, and Education in Africa.
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African Journals Online (AJOL)"AJOL provides free online hosting for over 500 peer-reviewed journals from 31 African countries, using open source software. AJOL's partner journals cover the full range of academic disciplines with particularly strong sections on health, agriculture and African studies."
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African Minds"An open access, not-for-profit, publisher of scholarly books. African Minds publishes predominantly in the social sciences and its authors are typically African academics or those with a close affinity with the continent."
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Collegiate Fashion and Activism: Black Women’s Styles on the College Campus (An Exhibition Catalog)Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC ND)
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Slave BiographiesAn open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves.
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Slavery to Liberation: The African American ExperienceCreative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License (CC BY NC)
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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database This link opens in a new windowRecords from more than 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866 from archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world, providing information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes.
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