Health and Medicine in Africa: Full Text Databases, Journals, Dissertations, & Archives

Full Text Databases -- Historical Documents

  • African Blue Books, 1821-1953 (East Ardsley, Wakefield : Microform Academic Publishers, 2013).
    Colonial economic development: imports, exports, revenues, expenditures; ecclesiastical records, public works, and population statistics.
    Digitized documents from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
    Part of: "British Online Archives" series.

  • Aluka-Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa (Anti-apartheid/liberation movement documents; periodicals)
     
  • Annual Departmental Reports Relating to Ghana & Togo Under Colonial Rule, 1843-1957;
    Kenya, 1907-1964 ; Nigeria & the British Cameroons, 1887-1962 ; and, Uganda, 1903-1961.
    (East Ardsley, Wakefield : Microform Academic Publishers, 2016-).
    Digitized documents from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
    Part of: "British Online Archives" series.

  • Apartheid South Africa: 1948-1980 (Selections from UK National Archives)
     
  • Archives of The Church of Uganda Online
    "Legal and administrative documents, correspondence, publications, personal records from the Offices of the Archbishops and Bishops of Uganda, the Education Secretary General, the General, Financial, and Provincial Secretaries, the Provincial Treasurer, and the Mother's Union."

  • Colonial Law in Africa: African Government Gazettes, 1808-1919 ; 1920-1945 ; and, 1946-1966
    (East Ardsley, Wakefield : Microform Academic Publishers, 2013).
    Digitized documents from The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
    Part of: "British Online Archives" series

  • Confidential Print, Africa 1834-1966 (Selected CO & FO records in UK National Archives)
     
  • eHRAF collection of ethnography (e-books)
     
  • Gallica--Voyages en Afrique (Selections from Bibliothèque nationale de France)
     
  • Hein Online (inc. Foreign Relations of the United States)
     
  • House of Commons-Parliamentary Papers (British foreign/colonial policy)
     
  • Nineteenth Century Collections--Europe & Africa (Selections from UK National Archives)

    • Dissertations

  • The Center for Research Libraries: Dissertations Catalog (Chicago, Illinois)

  • Cyberthèses: publication et diffusion en ligne des thèses (Lyons, France ; Montréal, Canada)
    Selected French language theses in full text and abstracts from a project based at Université Montréal, Université de Genève, and Université Lumière de Lyon II. 
    See also: HAL-Archives Ouvertes: TEL--Serveur de thèses multidisciplinaire ; Catalogue SUDOC ; Thèses.fr

  • Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global. (Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest University Microfilms International, 1980-)
    Formerly Dissertation abstracts, older issues (1966-1987) in paper can be found in Butler stacks.

  • HAL-Archives Ouvertes: TEL--Serveur de thèses multidisciplinaire (Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe, Paris, France)

  • Mémoire Online Memoireonline.com (France)
    An open access, self-publishing masters' thesis depository (in HTML format only).

  • Catalogue SUDOC: Rechercher par "Note de thèse" (ABES--Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur, Montpellier, France)
    "[SUDOC est]...le catalogue collectif français réalisé par les bibliothèques et centres de documentation de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. Il comprend plus de 9 millions de notices bibliographiques qui décrivent tous les types de documents..."
    --See also: Thèses.fr

  • Thèses.fr de 1985 au présent (ABES--Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur, Montpelier, France)
    "Il vise à donner sur le web un point d’entrée : à toutes les thèses de doctorat en cours de préparation en France et à toutes les thèses de doctorat soutenues en France, quel que soit le support matériel de la thèse (document papier, numérique, édition commerciale…)"

  • For a full list, see: Basic Guide to Research on Africa--Dissertations

    • Archives at Columbia

  • Columbia University -- Archives Portal Collections

  • Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research includes records of:
    Amnesty International USA ; Human Rights Watch ; Committee for Health in Southern Africa ; Gay McDougall Papers (Namibia & South Africa) ; Human Rights Web Archive Project
     
  • The Carnegie Collections at Columbia University
     
  • Missionary Research Library at Union Theological Seminary (Burke Library)
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