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Continuously updated Africa Section of the online catalogue (OPAC). It contains the books acquired since 1986 in the field of African Studies.

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The social science database WAO – World Affairs Online contains references to monographs and anthologies as well as to many journal articles and electronic publications. The search encompasses a WAO section with publications on sub-Saharan Africa including the collection of the GIGA Africa Library up to 1985.

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The online catalogue (OPAC) of the African Studies Centre, Leiden/The Netherlands, makes accessible about 70,000 books, government reports, 2,000 serials and African Newspapers and 80,000 journal articles (many with abstracts).

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The digitized card catalogue lists books that were acquired before 1986. It is not possible to single out an Africa Section. The catalogue cards have been scanned. Researchable are author and title, as well as the text of the card catalogue as a whole.

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The database "Online Contents-Special Collections (OLC-SSG) sub-Saharan Africa" makes accessible tables of content of 170 journals from the publication year 1993 onward. The titles of the articles are from the Swets Database Online Contents.

» Go directly to the database Africa-OLC-SSG

A selection of websites from Africa and relating to the region. The links collected are quality-checked and validated in the framework of the Academic LinkShare network.

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