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
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]