Africa-Wide NiPAD

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Description: Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies, Africa-Wide NiPAD contains over 2 million records with full-text links on all aspects of Africa. Topics covered include politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism and much more. Sources include books, periodicals and magazines articles, radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, reports, theses and music recordings and much more. Other databases in Africa-Wide NiPAD:

• Nordic Africa Institute Online Catalogue (NOAK) (19th century to current).
• IBISCUS (1970 to 2001). Contains development-related information on Francophone Africa. Subjects covered include agriculture, health, economics, transport, environment and society.
• African Studies Abstracts (19th century to current). Offers coverage of social, economic and development issues, religion, law, education, modern history and more.
• Africa Institute Database (1981 to current). Covers political, socio-economic, international and development issues facing contemporary Africa.
• The Southern African Database (Sardius) (1961 to 1997). Coverage includes political, economic and social research in the SADC region with information on leaders, conflict and conflict resolution, reform, development and foreign relations.
• School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue: Africa (1989 to current).
• NAMLIT (19th century to current). Comprehensive bibliography of Namibia-related library materials.
• Natural & Cultural Heritage of Africa (NATCHA) (1960-current). Offers unique current and historical coverage of articles from natural history, zoology, botany and museum journals published in Africa.
• Afro-Tropical Bird Information Retrieval Database (20th century to current).
• African Periodicals Exhibit (APEX).
• Bibliography on Contemporary African Politics and Development (1981 to 1992). UCLA database containing citations from both English and French speaking Africa.
• Don Africana Collection (16th Century to current). Relates to Africa south of the Sahara. Subjects covered include African religion, archaeology, art, economics, education, exploration, flora and fauna, geography, history, law, literature, missionary accounts and politics.
• The Campbell Collections of the University of Natal, Killie Campbell Africana Library Bibliography (19th Century to current). This collection includes a wide range of published works and an extensive manuscript collection dealing with Southern Africa in general and the Kwa-Zulu Natal Region in particular. The collection includes important published accounts left by 18th and 19th century explorers and travellers in Africa, as well as Zulu dictionaries, grammar books and published works by early Zulu writers.
• International Library of African Music (ILAM).
• Database of Swiss Theses and Dissertation (1897 to current).
• African Development Database . Covers current literature on economics, socio-economics, water science, water technology, agriculture, fisheries and science and technology.
• Media Africa . Covers significant socio-economic, political, scientific, technical and environmental issues and events in Africa. The information is sourced from full-text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals and technical reports. The material in the database is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).
• African Journals OnLine (AJOL).
• South African Databases . Provides access to the great majority of documents published in and about South Africa, including theses, dissertations and current research.
• Index to South African Periodicals (1987 to current). Topics covered include scientific and technical articles, law, education, agriculture and municipal affairs.
• South African National Bibliography (1988 to current). This is a comprehensive record of South African publishing compiled by The South African State Library.
• KnipKat . Database of press cuttings from newspapers and magazines relating to Afrikaans language, literature and culture with information about writers of the Afrikaans language.
• Witwatersrand University Management Research Reports (1970 to current).
• The Centre for Rural Legal Studies Database (1987 and earlier to current). Subject coverage includes issues relating to agriculture and farm workers in South Africa and elsewhere, specifically labour law and relations, working conditions, housing/tenure and socio-economic conditions. Issues such as land reform, rural local government and gender are also covered.
• Political Information and Monitoring Service Database (PIMS)

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African & Middle East Studies
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Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
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Other Related Links:
Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa
National Archives of South Africa (NASA) Databases

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