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African studies


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. 
  • Internet Archive
    Free full-text books, among other things.
  • Journals
    Search for journals in the library's collection of printed journals and electronic journals.
  • National EDT Portal
    A repository for South African theses and dissertations in fulltext.
  • WorldCat
    A search service providing information on titles held by more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.  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.

 

Finding facts

 

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".