Subscribed Journals & Databases

Covering in-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic and security developments across Africa. (All ECA Offices).

News and analysis from the continent of Africa, covering politics, power, business. (All ECA Offices).

Africa Intelligence publie tous les jours des informations exclusives indispensables à la compréhension des enjeux locaux et régionaux du continent. (All ECA Offices).

African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society and is the top ranked journal in African Studies. It is an inter-disciplinary journal, with a focus on the politics and international relations of sub-Saharan Africa. (All ECA Offces )

African Business Magazine covers business events across Africa and its special reports discuss specific sectors and industries. It is a market leader in providing country supplements, industry reports and market intelligence on Africa. (All ECA Offices )

African Renaissance is a quarterly peer-reviewed high quality international journal published consistently since 2004, making it one of the longest surviving scholarly social science journals on Africa published by Africans. The journal aims to advance both theoretical and empirical research on themes and dynamics that inform policies and practices in different African countries. (All ECA Offices )

AJOL is the world's largest online collection of African-published, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, hosting the content of over 380 African-published, peer-reviewed journals from 29 countries. ( Free Online )

All continental news on political, socio-economic dynamics and other related news, (All ECA Offices).

All 7 Journals. ( All ECA Offices )

The Cambridge Journal of Economics covers heterodox economics as well as other social science disciplines, including, but not only, unemployment, inflation, the organisation of production, the distribution of the social product, class conflict, economic underdevelopment, globalisation and international economic integration, changing forms and boundaries of markets and planning, and uneven development and instability in the world economy. ( All ECA Offices )

Full-text access to selected peer-reviewed academic journals from Cambridge University Press. ( All ECA Offices )

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGVLibrary: From just one search engine, tap into leading agricultural information databases, including the online libraries of all the CCGIAR centers. ( Free Online )

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. ( All ECA Offices )

Etudes economiques et sociales sur les pays en developpement ( Free Online )

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. There are now 5256 journals in the directory, 2189 of which are searchable at article level (as of August, 2010.) ( Free Online )

Ebook subscription database with more than 128,000 titles Content spans all areas of Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Studies, Health Care & Medicine, Life & Physical Sciences, Military Science, Political Science and Social Sciences. ( All ECA Offices )

Selected Socio-economic e-books. ( All ECA Offices)

Full text finder is state of the art knowledge base search service for locating publication in the Library collection. ( All ECA Offices )

The Economic Journal is one of the founding journals of modern economics first published in 1891. The journal remains one of the top journals in the profession and provides a platform for high quality, innovative, and imaginative economic research, publishing papers in all fields of economics for a broad international readership. ( All ECA Offices )

Economic Policy provides timely and authoritative analyses of the choices confronting policymakers. The subject matter ranges from the study of how individual markets can and should work to the broadest interactions in the world economy. ( All ECA Offices )

The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. It is now open to all staff at all ECA offices. Type UNECA to bring up and choose the institution and enter your OpenAthens credentials when prompted. ( All ECA Offices )

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software ( Free Online )

Provides access to EIU country reports and profiles, economist.com, global economic analysis and forecasts and press releases. ( All ECA Offices )

Delivers definitive news and analysis. (Contact Library for ID and Password or use Proquest for full-text access.) ( All ECA Offices )

Focusing mainly on U.S. foreign policy, access to articles on international relations is possible . (All ECA Offices).

Focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy. It provides analysis of pressing global challenges by the world’s leading experts. (All ECA Offices)

Provides access to up-to-date analysis of global economic conditions, from over 130 countries are also provided. ( All ECA Offices )

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more. ( All ECA Offices )

ITU iLibrary is the online research depository of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) featuring its publications and statistics. ( All ECA Offices )

The Journal of African Economies is a vehicle to carry rigorous economic analysis, focused entirely on Africa, for Africans and anyone interested in the continent - be they consultants, policymakers, academics, traders, financiers, development agents or aid workers. ( All ECA Offices )

The Journal of African Elections (JAE) is an accredited, interdisciplinary, biannual publication of research and writing in the human sciences which seeks to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change in Africa. ( All ECA Offices )

Exhaustive collection of digitised back issues of core scholarly journals in science, biology, art and economics. ( All ECA Offices )

LE MONDE diplomatique is an independent international paper, a world -famous voice in journalism dating back to 1954, offer a clear; considered view of the conflicting interests and complexities of a modern global world. It began as a journal to keep up to date on world events. (French Edition) ( All ECA Offices )

Access to news, legal government and business documents. (ID/Password) Please contact ECA Library for more information. ( All ECA Offices )

Digital access to current, leading international newspapers and magazines from around the world, content in 60+ languages from more than 100 countries. Access to mobile devices through the PressReader app. ( All ECA Offices )

International weekly scientific journal providing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology ( All ECA Offices )

New Scientist is a magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology. ( All ECA Offices )

Full-text access to all OECD Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It replaces SourceOECD, and hosts all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters. ( All ECA Offices )

Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to ebooks covering Economic and Finance, political Science , and Business and Management collections. ( All ECA Offices )

ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities, aggregated database of periodical content. including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, newspapers, reports and videos. ( All ECA Offices )

Access for more than 40,000 books, videos, and interactive tutorials from over 200 of the world’s best publishers, including O’Reilly, Pearson, Harvard Business Review, and Packt. (Personal ID/Password) ( All ECA Offices )

Offers full-text access to two Elsevier subject collections (social sciences and economics/finance) back to 2007, as well as complete access to ECA subscriptions back to 1997. ( All ECA Offices )

Provides access for selected articles from over 2,700 scholarly journas Content in thel areas of business, management and economics. ( All ECA Offices )

Access to 3000 UN publications such as books, series and periodicals covering all the main UN themes. Avilable on the OECD iLibrary platform. ( All ECA Offices )

UPLOpen is one of the largest online collections of free-to-read, peer-reviewed academic books. With 10,000+ titles from over 60 leading university presses, UPLOpen offers trusted, high-quality scholarship curated with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Open Source (Via UNSEIAC)

ECA's subscribed titles cover journals in the fields of social science and the humanities. The Wiley Enhanced Online License grants us archival access to content dating back to 1997 to all titles in our Core Collection. Contact the Library for the list of titles. ( All ECA Offices )

An online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. ( All ECA Offices )

An invaluable source of information on global trade: 1,900 titles, 15,000 chapters, 330 working papers, over 1,220 reports and 28 databases - PDF and HTML. Regularly updated and expanded. ( All ECA Offices )

Full-text access to Africa Yearbook from Brill Online (all editions, from 2004 to the present). ( All ECA Offices )

The African Studies Companion Online is an invaluable tool for scholars in African Studies. It contains over 1800 entries covering guides and resources for African languages, Africa cartography and maps, African film, African studies journals, magazines and newsletters, media guides and news sources for Africa. ( All ECA Offices )

Full-text access to African Studies Review (ASR) - the flagship scholarly journal of the African Studies Association (ASA). The ASR publishes the highest quality African studies scholarship in all academic disciplines. The ASR’s rigorous interdisciplinary peer review seeks to contribute to the development of scholarly conversations of interest to the diverse audience of the Association’s membership and to the growth of African studies in North America, on the African continent, and in a global comparative context. (All ECA Offices )

AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled thesaurus. It offers a structured collection of agricultural concepts, terms, definitions and relationships which are used to unambiguously identify resources, allowing standardized indexing processes and making searches more efficient.. ( Free Online )

Includes the complete text of the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Book of the Year and Timeline Browse. It includes more than 130,000 links to the web sites selected by Britannica editors. Updated continually. ( All ECA Offices )

Searchable directory of development organizations, listing approx. 65,000 development organizations. ( Free Online )

Europa World Plus is the expanded online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Includes detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, statistical and directory data available for over 250 countries and territories. ( All ECA Offices )

Le Petit Robert complet: 60.000 mots, 300.000 sens, des exemples 185.000 utilisation Toutes les conjugaisons, les formes féminines et plurielles: 450.000 formes fléchies La prononciation de 16 000 mots 15.000 mots composés et expressions 14 000 620 cases correspondant à des familles de mots pour jeter un regard en profondeur sur l'étymologie Un dictionnaire littéraire: 35.000 citations de 1120 auteurs, 825 notes sur les auteurs de Le Petit Robert et 150 notes sur les langues 180.000 liens hypertextes vers les synonymes, antonymes et homonymes ( All ECA Offices )

Online version of the vintage guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million English words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. ( All ECA Offices )

OLDO offers fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Available language pairs include: Chinese-English;English-Chinese, French-English;English-French, German-English;English-German, Italian-English;English-Italian, Russian-English;English-Russian, Spanish-English;English-Spanish ( All ECA Offices )

Provides search and retrieval access to 100+ reference books in the Oxford Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles, including the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ( All ECA Offices )

Business and Management handbooks. ( All ECA Offices )

Economics and Finance handbooks. ( All ECA Offices )

The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective. ( Free Online )

Trilingual (English, French and Spanish) terminological and linguistic databases developed by the Government of Canada. ( Free Online )

United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database : 85,000 Entries In 6 Official Languages, updated daily. ( Free Online )

Yearbook of International Organizations Published by the Union of International Organizations, the YIO contains entries on 63691 civil society organizations in 300 countries and territories, in every field of human endeavour. ( All ECA Offices )

Africa Development Indicators is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. ( Free Online )

The AFDB Statistical Data Portal provides statistical data and indicators relating to African Countries and customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats. With the Data Portal, you can visualize Socio-Economic indicators over a period of time, gain access to presentation-ready graphics and perform comprehensive analysis on a Country and Regional level. ( Free Online )

Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) Facilitated by IFPRI, ASTI compiles, analyzes, and publicizes data on institutional developments, investments, and capacity trends in agricultural R&D in low- and middle-income countries worldwide. ( Free Online )

Contains over 3 million time-series records on agriculture and food related areas. ( Free Online )

Global Development Finance (GDF) The Global Financial Development Database is an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 214 economies. It contains annual data, starting from 1960. It has been last updated in September 2022 and contains data through 2021 for 108 indicators, capturing various aspects of financial institutions and markets. ( Free Online )

Provides comprehensive access to IFS, BOP, DOTS, and GFS databases. View and download predefined data reports or create and share your own views of IMF data. ( All ECA Offices )

The largest depository of international trade data available, with over 1.7 billion data records for 45 years. Time series of data for reporter countries starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year. Over 170 reporter countries provide their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries, which are subsequently transformed into the United Nations Statistics Division. ( Free Online )

UNCTAD databases consolidate critical information on trade and development issues. All statistical indicators are compiled by UNCTAD's Statistics Service according to common rules, ensuring comparability between the various datasets. ( Free-Online )

UNdata replaces the UN Common Database. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point where users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system. The UNCDB series are currently available through UNdata under the new name "Key indicators". ( Free Online )

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development. The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,400 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years. ( Free Online )

Includes Country Profiles, Key Indicators by Topics, as well as an open access Data Catalog with download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources ( Free Online )