Search for books and articles

• Connecting Africa 
  Connecting Africa is a gateway to African research information and materials produced worldwide. It provides access to over 31,000 publications, among other things.
• Dalarna University Library catalogue 
  Search for printed books, printed journals, e-books and other types of material in the university library catalogue.
• Databases for African studies 
  Search for articles and other resources in different databases. 
• Ebrary   [video tutorial]
  Search for e-books.
• Google Books
  The search service includes free full-text books and magazines as well as snippets of texts. 
• LIBRIS   [video tutorial]
  A national search service providing information on titles held by Swedish university and research libraries, as well as some public libraries. Items that you find in the catalogue, which the Dalarna University library does not own, can in most cases be ordered using the Interlibrary loan service.
• National EDT Portal
  A repository for South African theses and dissertations in fulltext.

Finding facts

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online 
  The database includes Encyclopaedia Britannica Online and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus. It also contains World Data Analyst, which consists of statistics for different countries.
• Encyclopedia of African History (3 vol.) is available in the library - shelf Kp(x).
• Oxford English Dictionary
  An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words.
• The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
  English thesaurus.
• Oxford Reference
  The database offers a huge range of dictionaries, thesauruses and subject reference works.
• UNdata
  International statistics.
• The World Factbook (produced by CIA)

Student theses  

• Essays.se
  Search for full-text theses submitted at Swedish universities.
• DiVA
  Find full-text theses and other scholarly works submitted at Högskolan Dalarna.

Other resources 

• A Guide to Africa on the Internet (Provided by The Nordic Africa Institute)
• The Nordic Africa Institute
• Studying Africa (2011)
  Studying Africa is a guide to African studies, primarily within the area of social sciences. The book provides practical guidance on handbooks, databases, statistics and other support for literature and fact searches, as well as an introduction to the topics "The history of Africa" and "Politics, economics and society".