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 Offces )

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. (Addis-Only )

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. ( Addis Only )

Published twice a year, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) offers authoritative, in-depth research on economic development. For over thirty years, BPEA has been an indispensable source for scholars and policymakers seeking objective analysis of major macroeconomic issues. ( Addis Only )

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. ( Addis Only )

Full-text access to selected peer-reviewed academic journals from Cambridge University Press. ( Addis Only )

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 )

Columbia International Affairs Online (ALL ECA Offices) Full-text access to wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. ( All ECA Offices )

(ALL ECA Offices) 1500 sources on gender and women's issues in over 190 countries. ( All ECA Offices )

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. ( Addis-Only)

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

Indexed bibliography with selected abstracts from more than 550 economic journals. Searchable in English, French and Spanish. ( 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. ( Addis Only )

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. ( Addis Only )

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 )

Full-text access to Emerald Management 150 (scholarly journals), Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series, and Emerald Social Sciences eBook Series Collection. ( Addis Only )

Full-text access to Enterprise Development & Microfinance (EDM), which offers practice-based insights into the role of markets, enterprises and financial services in reducing poverty and stimulating economic development. This peer-reviewed journal, at the interface between research and practice, publishes papers written by researchers for the benefit of practice and those written by practitioners to inform research and policy. (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 )

Global Governance showcases the expertise of leading scholars and practitioners concerned with the processes of international cooperation and multilateralism. The result is a provocative exploration of the most pressing transnational challenges of our time—issues of peace and security, development, human rights, the environment, and health among them—presenting groundbreaking research, opinion pieces, and book reviews. ( All ECA Offices )

International Migration Review is an interdisciplinary journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of sociodemographic, historical, economic, political, legislative, spatial, social, and cultural aspects of human mobility. It is internationally regarded as the principal journal in the field facilitating the study of human migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements. ( Addis Only )

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. ( Addis Only )

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 )

The Journal of Climate (JCLI) publishes research that advances basic understanding of the dynamics and physics of the climate system on large spatial scales, including variability of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and cryosphere; past, present, and projected future changes in the climate system; and climate simulation and prediction.
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The Journal of Political Economy (JPE) has since 1892 presented significant research and scholarship in economic theory and practice. The journal aims to publish highly selective, widely cited articles of current relevance that will have a long-term impact on economics research. JPE's analytical, interpretive, and empirical studies in a number of areas—including monetary theory, fiscal policy, labor economics, development, micro- and macroeconomic theory, international trade and finance, industrial organization, and social economics—are essential reading for all economists wishing to keep up with substantive new research in the discipline. ( Addis Only )

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 African is a magazine that provides unparalleled insights and analysis on African politics and economics. ( All ECA Offices )

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

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide influence and readership. ECA has facilitated a digital pass for a complementary access to the New York Times. You can claim your digital pass by creating an account with your official email address. ( All ECA Offices )

The leading publication on North African affairs, from business and the economy to security and politics. ( 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 )

Full-text acces to 225+ titles from OUP's Social Science & Humanities and STM Series ( Addis Only )

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 )

Regions & Cohesion is the journal of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion-Social Elevation (RISC-RISE), a cross-regional, interdisciplinary, and multilingual network of socially conscious and prestigious research institutes in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on the human and environmental impacts of regional integration processes. It disseminates conceptual and empirical research (articles) and normative analysis (Leadership Forum) of topics related to human and environmental security, social cohesion, and governance. ( 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 strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs. ( 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 )

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 )

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 )

Multilingual, structublue and controlled thesaurus designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment). ( Free Online )

Includes the complete text of the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica ( All ECA Offices )

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

Access to Encyclopaedia Britannica’s foreign language reference, that includes Encyclopaedia Universalis, as well as similar encyclopedias in Spanish, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese. ( All ECA Offices )

Includes the complete text of the online version of Encyclopedia Universalis. ( All ECA Offices )

Contacts of major knowledge institutions in the world. ( All ECA Offices )

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 )

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law The online edition, edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, contains over 1,300 peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. ( All ECA Offices )

Contains contact information on NGO's in the world. ( Free Online )

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 New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online Contains the full text of the 8-volume print edition and is updated at least four times a year with new articles and updates to existing articles, along with new features and functionality. Includes 1,872 articles: 1,057 of these are new to the second edition; 550 are edited original articles; 157 are revised articles; 80 are ‘classics’; and 28 are ‘signpost’ articles. ( 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 )

The Statesman's Yearbook is updated monthly to provide users with the latest information. - Profiles and detailed maps of all 194 countries in the world plus states and dependencies - Biographic profiles of all current leaders - Expanded and updated historical introductions - Over 1,700 links to key national websites - Complete Archive from 1864 – a unique insight into a changing world Annual reference publication covering information on every country in the world, key historical events, population, city profiles, social statistics, climate, recent elections, current leaders, defense, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, international trade, religion, culture, and diplomatic representatives. (All ECA Offices)

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) This World Bank database covers more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 128 countries with data from 1970 to 2008. ( 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 )

Official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. ( Free Online )

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 )

Oceana Constitutions of the Countries of the World Access to 188 country constitutions with extensive expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. Accurate, original English translations, plus the ability to search for topics across all nations. ( All ECA Offices )

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 provides access to over 900 development indicators for more than 210 countries from 1960 onwards. The indicators are divided into 6 sections namely world view, people, environment, states and markets, economy and global links. ( 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 )