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AJOL

African Journals Online
Date of last update: 27. Sep 2023
Type

Full database

Provider
African Journals Online
Accessibility

Free

Topic

Broad spectrum healthcare

Broad spectrum related/other fields

Document type

Journal articles

Research design

Broad spectrum of research designs

Region

Africa

Interface language

English

Search language

English

Update

Ongoing (when new entries available)

Special features

Misc
  • There are currently around 700 journals in the AJOL collection (as of September 2023).

Basic functions

Search functions

Basic and advanced search

In addition to the simple search (which is supported by Google), journals in AJOL can be searched as an alphabetical list, by category, by country or by accessibility.

Boolean operators
Brackets
Wildcards
Proximity operators
Exact word or phrase search

Using quotation marks.

Search in all fields
Search in title
Search in abstract
Search in other fields
Search with search commands
Search with controlled vocabulary
Forward citation searching
Backward citation searching

Filter functions

Filter by publication date
Filter by topic
Filter by research design
Filter by document type
Filter by country/region
Filter by language
Additional filters
Multiple filters simultaneously

Display of search results

Results sortable by date

Latest first.

Results sortable by relevance
Results sortable by author
Results sortable by journal
Results sortable by title
Additional sorting
Adjustable number of hits per page

Search process and export

Search history
Alert service for new result

Notification of journal titles can be sent after registration.

Export of single hits
Export of all hits at once

Help

Free user account
Notification for search string errors
Help section
Help section in German

Important search commands

Controlled vocabulary

Citation searching

Backward citation searching

Forward citation searching

Export of results

Export of single hits

Export of all hits at once

Export of all results (alternative)

Date
Task
Draft
Review
27. Sep 2023
Creation
Hirt, J.
Nordhausen, T.
Date of last update: 27. Sep 2023
Next update: Sep 2026
Suggested citation:
Hirt, J., Nordhausen, T. (2023): AJOL. In: Nordhausen, T., Hirt, J. RefHunter. Systematic literature search.https://refhunter.org/en/database_sheets/ajol/ [Access on: 22.02.2025]