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Researching the African Diaspora and Creolité on the Internet
Karen Hartman
Information Resource Officer
U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya
February 5, 2008
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African Studies Portals
Yale University http://www.library.yale.edu/african/internet.html
Africa South of the Sahara - Stanford University http://library.stanford.edu/africa/guide.html
Columbia University Libraries -Africa Research Guide http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/joebib.html
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African Studies Archives & Repositories
Connecting – Africa (work of Dutch Africanists) http://www.connecting-africa.net
Aluka (free to everyone until 6/08, free to all non-profits in Africa after this date) http://www.aluka.org
African Studies Repository (under development) http://www.africanstudiesrepository.org
Africa Research Central http://www.africa-research.org/ - gateway to archives, libraries,and museums with collections of primary sources
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Aluka
http://www.aluka.org An international, collaborative initiative
building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.
The name ‘Aluka’, is derived from a Zulu word meaning ‘to weave’, reflecting Aluka’s mission to connect resources and scholars from around the world.
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CODESRIA
http://www.codesria.org Council for the Development of Social
Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an
independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences.
Recognised as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production in Africa.
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DATAD Initiative
Database of African Theses and Dissertations
Association of African Universities, Accra Ghana
http://www.aau.org Must subscribe in order to obtain the
full-text.
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General Repositories
OpenDoar http://www.opendoar.org - An authoritative directory of academic
open access repositories. Dspace http://www.dspace.org - Captures your data in any format - text,
video, audio, and data. - Indexes your work so users can search
and retrieve it.
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World Digital Library
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html
Joint project of the U.S. Library of Congress and Google
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H-Africa Discussion Network
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/ Encourages discussion of Africa's
history, culture, and African studies generally.
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Open Access Journal Databases
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) http://www.ajol.info
African e-journals project
http://africa.msu.edu/AEJP/
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Google Books
http://books.google.com Can search contents of books by keyword. Can read a few snippets, sentences of your search
term in context If publisher or author has given permission, you can
see full pages where your keyword(s) appears. In many cases you can find this book in a local library. Tables of contents are usually available. If book is out of copyright restriction, can download
entire book in pdf.
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Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com Provides a way to broadly search for
scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and
sources Can find papers, abstracts, and citations Locate the complete paper in a library
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JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org JSTOR has a dual mission to create and maintain
a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. You can retrieve scanned images of journal
issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
The journals span many disciplines. Is not a current issues database. Because of its
archival mission, there is a gap (1 to 5 years), between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available.
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