Databases

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An alphabetical listing of electronic resources of interest for those searching for literature on Africa can be found below.

For more references please see our library catalogue, AfricaLit, and Africa-Wide Information, as well as other library catalogues.

Alphabetical listing of bibliographic databases

AfricaBib. Two bibliographic databases: Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African women's literature (African Women's Database) and a comprehensive bibliography on women travellers and explorers in Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-2004). http://www.africabib.org/

African Studies Abstracts Online. Provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and humanities available at the African Studies Centre Library, Leiden. http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Abstracts/ASA-Online/

African Studies Companion. A compact, timesaving guide to print and electronic information sources, databases, and repositories providing easy access to a wide range of information in the African studies field. http://www.africanstudiescompanion.com/online/index.shtml

African Writers Series. An online edition of modern African literature. incl. almost 200 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose. http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk/home/home_aws.jsp 

Aluka. Struggles for freedom in Southern Africa. A collection of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral testimonies, life histories, and speeches brought together by the Aluka Digital Library. http://www.aluka.org/

The Anthropological Index Online. Based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind), which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers. http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aiosearch/

Connecting Africa. A service that provides access to African research information and materials produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere. http://www.connecting-africa.net/

ISI Web of Knowledge. Access to high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. http://www.isiknowledge.com/

JSTOR. Journal articles in full-text from journals covering various subjects. The articles are scanned from the year the journals started and some of them are from the 19th century. http://www.jstor.org/

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

Search for full text theses and dissertations in the NDLTD Catalog, http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search

Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Critical Bibliography. An online version of the book with the same title, http://www.hanszell.co.uk/cgi-bin/online/pbrssa.shtml

Population Index. Abstracts of demographic literature published in the period 1986–2000. http://popindex.princeton.edu/

UNBISNET, United Nations Bibliographic Information System. References to UN documents and publications, articles and books about the UN, speeches of the General Assembly from 1983-, voting records and more. http://unbisnet.un.org/

WorldTradeLaw.net Dispute Settlement Commentary Service (DSC). A comprehensive legal research tool for WTO dispute settlement.  Features include summary/analysis of all reports/arbitrations; up-to-date keyword index; and a database of dispute settlement tables/statistics. http://www.worldtradelaw.net/dsc/main.htm

More databases:

Uppsala University Library, http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Search/Databases/
 or check with your local library.

   

New database

Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Critical Bibliography. An online version of the book with the same title, http://www.hanszell.co.uk/cgi-bin/online/pbrssa.shtml

African Writers Serie On line

Now the online edition of African Writers Series is available via the Nordic Africa Institute library and Uppsala University Campus. Read more about the database in the list to the left.

ADVICE!

University and college libraries have access to different electronic resources. The databases and journals presented here can be available at your local library.

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