Dela

African studies

Search for books, articles and DVDs

• The library catalogue 
  Find printed books, newspapers, journals, and DVDs. 
  
• Ebrary
  Search for e-books.
  
• ELIN 
  Find articles in fulltext.
  
• LIBRIS 
  A national search service providing information on titles held by Swedish university and research libraries.
  
• Bibliotek.se 
  A national search service providing information on titles held by public libraries in Sweden.
  
• Library Pressdisplay
  Electronic newspapers from different countries.
  
• JSTOR - some fulltext journals in african studies.
  
• Project MUSE - some fulltext journals in african studies.
  
• Web of Science (ISI) - Web of Science enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.

Shelves in the library

Em-p: Education in Africa
G-p: African literature
Kp: African history
Mp: African anthropology
Np: African geography

Reference books

• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  English encyclopedia and dictionary.
  
• Oxford Reference Online 
  The ORO offers a huge range of dictionaries and subject reference works.
   

Theses  

• Uppsök
  Search for theses submitted at Swedish universities.
  

• DALEA
  Find theses and other scholarly works submitted at Högskolan Dalarna.
  
  

Links

• Nordiska afrikainstitutet (The Nordic Africa Institute)
  
• A Guide to Africa on the Internet
  A useful guide to information resources on the Internet from The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala.
  
• African Women's Bibliographic Database
  The database indexes for example books, government documents, articles appearing in edited books, periodical and journal articles.
  
• Africana Periodical Literature Database
  This English language database indexes over 33,000 articles from over 280 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
  
• AJOL, African Journals Online
  AJOL is a database of scholarly journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. Some of the articles are available in fulltext and the rest can be ordered as interlibrary loan.
  
• Google Scholar
  Provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.