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Africa-Wide: NiPAD
An electronic information resource which is an aggregation of 40 bibliographic databases from around the world. Databases include Index to South African Periodicals, Ibiscus, the database from the Africa Institute, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT which is compiled from the national Library of Namibia. Africa-Wide is a multidisciplinary database and with access to over 2.4 million records is unique in its extensive coverage on the subject of Africa, including information written on and about Africa and offering access to African research. The records and abstracts are derived from journal articles, research reports, conference proceedings, grey literature, books, monographs, theses and dissertations. Subscribers to Africa-Wide include public libraries, universities, African and South African Institutes and governmental departments. Africa-Wide includes abstracts and direct links to full text, author contact information, links to publisher's websites and information on holding libraries.

Africana Conference Paper Index
Africana Conference Paper Index includes individual papers of Africana conference proceedings (in Western European languages) held by Northwestern University's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, the largest separate Africana collection in the world. The database includes conference papers from the earliest period of the Northwestern Africana collections to the present, including 245,000 volumes, 2,500 current serials, 275 current African newspapers, 10,500 books in African languages, as well as other research materials.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts offers coverage of world history, from 1450 onward, outside the US and Canada. (The companion index for those countries is America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts provides citations with abstracts to articles in over 1,700 journals, published 1954 to the present. It also contains bibliographic citations to books and dissertations.

Index Islamicus
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library.

ISI Web of Knowledge
A citation database that includes the Web of Science (Science Citation Index, 1900-present, the Social Science Citation Index, 1956-present, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

PAIS International
PAIS International covers the literature of public affairs including political, economic and social issues. PAIS International contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 120 countries are included.

Electronic Newspapers of Sub-Saharan Africa: African Newspapers Union List Project
Compiled by Columbia University Libraries, this list of online newspapers (available without subscription) is part of a larger, on-going effort -- AFRINUL--"a union list" of African newspapers held by research libraries in North America (Europe and Africa to be added in the future). AFRINUL is a special project of the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association of the United States and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project at the Center for Research Libraries.

Project Muse
With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.

Kiosken: comprehensive list of world newspapers

World News Connection
WNC is an online news service of non-U.S. media sources provided by the National Technical Information Service.

AFRICA INDEX: United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa
This website, maintained by United Nations University, is devoted to advancing knowledge for human security in Africa.

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources

AfricaFocus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
A source of multimedia (slides, photographs, sound files) on African life. Accessible by collection, subject, or country; through an interactive atlas; or keyword or multiple fields.

AFRO-American Almanac
The AFRO-American Almanac is an on-line presentation of the African in America, providing a historical perspective of the nation's cultural evolution from the beginning of the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement, to the present.

The Animate Atlas of African History
The Animated Atlas of African History offers a visual presentation of selected themes in the continent's history between 1879 and 2002. As the AAAH clicks through its year-by-year frames, labels, color-coded classifications and other symbols show territorial names, violent conflicts, the course of colonization and decolonization, post-colonial political developments, as well as economic and demographic changes.

Black Drama - 1850 to present
Currently contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Many works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by such writers as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston.

Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies
A "virtual" space of scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive format to support students and faculty at the University of Iowa and scholars nationally and internationally.

CountryWatch.com: Website to the world
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world, for educational purposes and for public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. Includes Country ReviewsTM and Country WireTM.

Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography (UI Libraries)
A refereed online journal of bibliographies created by the late John Howell, University of Iowa Libraries. Coverage includes any aspect of Africa, its peoples, their homes, cities, towns, districts, states, countries, regions, including social, economic sustainable development, creative literature, the arts, and the Diaspora.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam
The Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It includes articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. The entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is included.

Hoover Institution Finding Aids
This database provides access to different finding aids to primary sources all over the state of California.

Index on Africa
This database contains annotated links to over 4,000 web sites and is maintained by the Norwegian Council for Africa (NCA), a non-profit, non-governmental organization.