African Studies: Key resources

However the Atlas is more than a collection of static maps and images accompanied by informative facts and figures: its visual elements vividly illustrate a succinct narrative describing and analyzing Africa's water issues and exemplifying them through the judicious use of case studies. It gathers information about water in Africa and its role in the economy and development, health, food security, transboundary cooperation, capacity building and environmental change into one comprehensive and accessible volume. UNEP undertook the production of this Atlas at the request of the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) and in cooperation with the African Union, European Union, US Department of State, United States Geological Survey and other collaborators.

CAMP acquires expensive microform (and digital data) sets and authorizes original filming of unique research materials in North America, Africa, and Europe. CAMP collects microform copies of such material as:

* selected newspapers, including titles received on current subscriptions
* journals
* government publications
* personal and corporate archives
* personal papers of historians, journalists, anthropologists, geographers, and government leaders
* writings in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and other European languages as well as works in Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu, and other African languages.

The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development.

The updated version now also devotes some space to a number of new Google services launched since publication of the pilot edition, for example Google Book Search/Google Books Library Project, Google Earth, and Google Scholar.

African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (ACPR) is an interdisciplinary forum for creative and rigorous studies of conflict and peace in Africa and for discussions between scholars, practitioners, and public intellectuals in Africa, the United States, and other parts of the world. It includes a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives on the causes of conflicts and peace processes including, among others, cultural practices relating to conflict resolution and peacebuilding, legal and political conflict preventative measures, and the intersection of international, regional, and local interests and conceptions of conflict and peace. ACPR is a joint publication of the Africa Peace and Conflict Network, the West African Research Association, and Indiana University Press.

The African Journal Archive is a project of Sabinet Gateway, a non-profit organisation promoting and supporting library and information services in Africa. The project is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.

Before discontinuance, the ASA Online succeeded the print abstracts of the African Studies Centre Leiden, published since 1968, first as Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (1994-2002). In addition, it incorporates the Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature materials available at the US Library of Congress and at subscribing libraries (via Interlibrary Loan through institutional consortia).

African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes includes spatial, visual, and contextual documentation of heritage and rock art sites throughout Africa.

In July 2010, Wiley-Blackwell will launch their new online platform called Wiley-Online Library. AAA's online content will be transitioned to the new platform.

AnthroSource User Guides are now available! Both guides contain step-by-step instructions and visual aides. The first user guide details the basics of using AnthroSource. It gives vital information on logging-in, browsing/searching content and accessing full-text articles. The second user guide details how you can take advantage of advanced AnthroSource features and how they can help save you time. With this guide learn about setting up E-TOC alerts, exporting citations, reference linking and more!

A journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa has, since its foundation in 1966, built up a strong track record in publishing papers on the archaeology and precolonial history of Eastern Africa. Now expanded in scope, since 2009 it has covered all aspects of African archaeology, regardless of temporal or spatial boundaries, and welcomes contributions in both English and French.

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa seeks to become the premier outlet for publishing archaeological work on Africa's past. It publishes peer-reviewed papers and briefer research reports, as well as book and conference reviews, on all aspects of archaeological research in Africa, without restriction as to period or area.

Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases.

Items are available as Adobe Acrobat "pdf" files, broken into manageable parts rather than as virtual books. Original items can be requested via Interlibrary Loan.

Every day the ViewsWire highlights up to 250 key economic, political and market developments around the world and provides concise analytical briefings on the implications for business.

Country Reports cover nearly 200 countries and help you keep pace with how national, regional and global events will affect your business in the short-to medium term. Each report examines and explains in depth the issues shaping the countries in which you operate: the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments. Detailed two-year forecasts complement the analysis and pinpoint political and economic developments and trends.

The Country Profile product was discontinued in 2009, at which time the data it contained was incorporated into the Country Report product.

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eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University. The mission of HRAF, a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, is to encourage and facilitate worldwide and other comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture.

Over the years, there have been numerous encyclopedias on religion from other parts of the world, but African religion has often been relegated to “primitive religions,” “African mythologies,” or “tribal religions” sections of such works on religion. It is as if African religion is an afterthought in the eyes of the authors and editors of such volumes. Of course, these designations are clearly based on outmoded and problematic Western notions of Africa, and we have created this encyclopedia as a monument to the memory of those Africans who left us enough information from which to rediscover for the world the original beauty and majesty of African culture.

Transcripts of interviews with U.S. diplomatic personnel capture their experiences, motivations, critiques, personal analyses, and private thoughts. These elements are crucial to understanding the full story of how a structure of stable relationships that maintained world peace and protected U.S. interests and values was built.

"ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of approximately 4,300 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. HEB is available to entire campus communities. Using any web browser, faculty, students, staff and library patrons of subscribing institutions can view and search the HEB collection from campus offices, libraries, dorms and remotely when off-campus. An institutional subscription to HEB includes unlimited, simultaneous multi-user access from any Internet-connected location."

Combined catalog includes records of the African Studies Centre Leiden, GIGA Hamburg, UL Frankfurt, Swets Online Contents, World Affairs Online, and the Nordic Africa Institute library in Uppsala, Sweden. Also included are records of the Library of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, IFEAS) at Mainz University and their "Jahn Library for African Literatures" as one of the most comprehensive research facilities for African literatures in Europe.

JSTOR's advanced search feature allows full-text searching of many journals, but remember: current issues aren't included! Search the library catalog and/or the e-journal locator for more options.

The National Archives' collection of over 11 million historical government and public records is one of the largest in the world. From Domesday Book to modern government papers and digital files, our collection includes paper and parchment, electronic records and websites, photographs, posters, maps, drawings and paintings.

As a general rule, government records that have been selected for permanent preservation are sent to The National Archives when they are 30 years old, but many are transferred to us earlier under the Freedom of Information Act.

The scope of the present Report..."is confined to matters relating directly to the agencies employed for administrative purposes in local rule." (Preface p. iii)

Since the literature on African Studies is diverse, fast moving, controversial, and scattered among unfamiliar sources, we have asked leading scholars to identify the most significant themes and areas of study in their fields, recommend the best sources for exploring them, and discuss these works conceptual and empirical significance to provide a series of guided studies through the diverse approaches to a wide array of complex subjects. A great deal of this work has moved online with the most recent scholarship, research, and statistics appearing in online databases. With advances in online searching and database technologies, researchers and practitioners can easily access library catalogs, bibliographic indexes, and other lists that show thousands of resources that might also be useful to them. In this situation what is most needed is expert guidance. Researchers and practitioners at all levels need tools that help them filter through the proliferation of information sources to material that is reliable and directly relevant to their inquiries. Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies offers a trustworthy pathway through the thicket of information overload.

Publications include the Portuguese Journal of Int’l Affairs; IPRIS Policy Brief; IPRIS Viewpoints; IPRIS Occasional Papers; IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin; IPRIS Maghreb Bulletin. Many African related items are included.

The Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) carries out research in applied empirical microeconomics with an emphasis on labour markets, human capital, poverty, inequality and social policy. We strive for academic excellence and policy relevance. SALDRU has implemented a range of innovative surveys in South Africa since it was founded in 1975, and is based in the School of Economics in the University of Cape Town. We have three permanent research staff, and twenty two Research Associates who share common research interests, and are drawn from the UCT School of Economics, as well as other South African and international universities.

Since its establishment in 1970, Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies continues to challenge and correct misconceptions about Africa, thereby creating relevant criteria for African Studies. It publishes material supportive of the African revolution and socially significant works of African history, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, law, planning and development, literature and other topics about the continent and the African Diaspora.

In its 50 years of existence, UNECA has created and holds a vast quantity of information and Knowledge in a variety of formats, including printed and electronic. These represent the corporate memory, providing historical evidence of its actions and decisions. The information resources include published materials such as flagship publications, journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, mission reports, annual reports, working papers, speeches and other grey literature, all which outline important research or decisions that have been made on the economic and social developmental aspects in Africa.

The Institutional Repository of the Economic Commission for Africa offers unique knowledge and information not available elsewhere pertaining to regional programmes, decisions and resolutions promoting social and economic development in Africa.

* Navigate with cited reference searching and Author Finder
* Use the Analyze Tool to identify trends and patterns
* Backfiles available to 1900
* Access enhanced coverage of books and meeting abstracts

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* Science Citation Index Expanded (1899-present)
* Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
* Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)