Universitätsbibliothek Mainz

African Philology

Databases

The most important databases:

Virtual Catalog Special Collection Area Middle East / North Africa

OLC Middle East and North Africa—Online Contents

Africana Periodical Literature: Bibliographic Database

OLC Africa South of the Sahara—Online Contents

MLA International Bibliography

More databases:

DBIS—General and Comparative Linguistics and Literature Studies

Full texts

African Writers Series

Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Studies Online

Journals

EZB—General and Comparative Linguistics and Literature Studies. Indo-European Studies. Non-European Languages and Literatures

Local Institutions

Institute of Anthropology and African Studies, Department of African Philology

New literature for you

New Acquisitions Non-European Languages

Location in library

In the Central Library, you can find African Philology in the textbook collection under the call number 13P and in the reading room under LING A (dictionaries) or LING J (African Philology and Turkish Studies).

The Law and Economics Library houses the collections of the Anthropology and African Studies branch libraries, as well as those of the Jahn Library.

Cataloging systems at our locations

More information

MENALIB–The Middle East Virtual Library

ilissAfrica–Virtual Library for Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources of Stanford University

Specialized Information Service (FID) Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies

Association for African Studies Germany (VAD e.V.)

Tipp

Literature on the history of Africa can be found under the subject History. For religious topics, you can consult the specialized information on Religious Studies, and for questions on the subject of Anthropology, the specialized information on Anthropology is available.