Researching the African Diaspora and Creolité on the Internet

Karen Hartman

Information Resource Officer

U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya

February 5, 2008

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

World Digital Library

http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html

Joint project of the U.S. Library of Congress and Google

H-Africa Discussion Network

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/ Encourages discussion of Africa's

history, culture, and African studies generally.

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/

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.

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

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.

Thanks for coming today!

Karen Hartman Kphartman@gmail.com