Africana Research Tools

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Africana Research Tools

• Araba Dawson-Andoh
• 122 A Alden Library
• 740-593-2547
• dawson-a_at_ohio.edu

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Overview

• The Librarys Web site
• Reference Collection
• Electronic Databases
• Specialized Databases
• Internet Resources

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The Librarys Web Site

• Online catalogs Alice, Ohiolink, Worldcat
• Electronic Journal African Studies
• InfoTree
• African Studies Resources Guide
• Search strategy
• Citing Sources

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Reference Collection

• Bibliographies
• Indexes
• Directories
• Encyclopedias
• Dictionaries
• Handbooks

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Electronic Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• Lexis Nexis
• Social Science Citation Index

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Specialized

• Africabib.org
• African Journals Online (AJOL)
• Africa Wide
• Economic Intelligence Unit
• ELDIS
• JSTOR African Studies Journals
• Gender and Womens Studies (GWS) Africa

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Africabib.org

• Contains two databases
• African womens bibliographic database
• African Periodical literature database.

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African Journals Online (AJOL)

• Mainly tables of contents and abstracts of
  scholarly journals published in Africa
• Coverage includes agricultural sciences, resource
  management, language and literature, health,
  science and technology and social sciences

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Africa Wide

• Databases include
• African Studies Abstracts entire collection of
  the African studies center at Leiden.
• Coverage - social, economic and development
  issues, religion, law, education, modern history
  and more.
• African Institute Database - coverage includes,
  political, socio-economic, international and
  development issues facing contemporary Africa.

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Economic Intelligence Unit

• Country reports In depth analysis of political
  trends in African countries.
• Country profile - Background and historical
  context of current economic and political events
  in African countries.
• Country finance and commerce - Financial
  regulations and conditions and Operating
  conditions and business regulations of certain
  African countries.

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ELDIS

• Gateway to information on development issues.
• Offers a directory of websites, databases,
  library catalogues, email discussion lists and
  blogs.
• Provides summaries and links to online documents
  on topics such as HIV/AIDS, children and
  development, food security, education

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JSTOR African Studies Journals

• Digital archive of the back issues of scholarly
  journals starting with their first issues.
• Time period is normally 3-5 years between last
  issue in JSTOR and recent issue.
• Includes many leading journals as well as a few
  cultural and literary magazines.

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GWS Africa Project

• Coverage includes feminist theory, womens
  movements in Africa, womens health, biographies,
  land issues, history, social transformation and
  politics.
• Bibliographies are mostly citations with links
  to a few full-text articles.

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SAHARA (Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research
Alliance)

• Scientific publications in the area of the social
  aspects of HIV and AIDS, hosted by Human Sciences
  Research Council of South Africa
• Provides links to other African research
  organizations.

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Internet Gateways

• Africa South of the Sahara ( Stanford
  University)
• A gateway for internet resources on Africa,
  browse by country or topics and a search
  feature.
• Topics covered includes organizations, book
  dealers, business, sports, travel, weather,
  African Studies programs and statistics.
• Columbia University Libraries African Studies 
• A gateway for searching for Internet
  resources on Africa covering various topics both
  scholarly and general.
• Links to journals and newspapers.
• International Directory of African studies
  scholars in various disciplines.
• African language resources.

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Major library collection guides and online
catalogs

• Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
• Herskovits Library of African Studies at
  Northwestern University.
• British Library African Collection.
• Library of Congress- Africa section.
• University of Pennsylvania.

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African Studies Blog

• Excellent tool for sharing information on
  databases, new books and other resources.
• Links to interesting news and magazine articles
  on Africa, conference call for papers and more.
• Links to book reviews, abstracts and full text
  reports.

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