NEW AFRICA-RELATED RESOURCES FROM MSU LIBRARIES (June 2009): an
occasional newsletter by the Africana librarians
Part I: e-resources
I. NEW ONLINE TEACHING/RESEARCH RESOURCES ON AFRICA:
a) newly purchased products
'Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007' database
http://ezproxy.msu.edu:2047/login?url=http://www.slavery.amdigital.co.uk
For teaching/research. "important portal for slavery and abolition
studies, ... [primary] documents and collections from 1490-2007, from
libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.."
Empire online http://magic.msu.edu/record=b6716408~S39a
Teaching/research: 60,000 primary documents linked to essays by leading
scholars. Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing/Literature of
Empire; Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; Race, Class & Colonialism,
1783-1969
African Newspapers Project
Peter Limb headed a committee of the Cooperative Africana Research
Project (CAMP at CRL) to propose pre-1923 African newspapers for
digitization. Work is soon to begin on digitization at CRL, which
continues to digitize much of its early Africana
(http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S5/)-- these are regularly added to the
MSU Library Catalog (a "Center for Research Libraries" button is at the
top of each library catalog search page).
b) NEW DIGITAL LIBRARIES IN AFRICA
* University of Nigeria, Nsukka (digital library)
http://www.unn.edu.ng/index.php/Research-Documents/
12,000,000 PDF pages of full-text dissertations and UNN publications
across all subjects, an amazing Nigerian achievement!
c) NEW CONTENT OR INTERFACES: (for updates of new library e-resources,
see http://er.lib.msu.edu/new.cfm )
1. Africa-wide NiPAD database: now part of EBSCO, enhanced with 900,000
new records of African Healthline (aggregation of 13 bibliographic
databases including HealthLit, African subset of MEDLINE, Index to South
African Periodicals, Health Link Worldwide, Medicines information Centre
and Current and complete research in South Africa Database.
http://magic.msu.edu/record=b4873029~S39a
2. SA e-Publications. MSU holds the Social Sciences/Humanities
Collection and can acquire selected journals from other Collections; new
e-journals to be added in 2009 include: Southern African Humanities (for
a full list see: www.journals.co.za/collections/ : our access:
http://magic.msu.edu/record=b4742483~S39a ; individual journals also are
in MSU Library catalog (http://magic.msu.edu/)
3) News products:
Newspaper Direct PressDisplay (full-text, color newspapers [not
hypertext but facsimiles of actual print] with searchable 60-day archive
has added to its two Kenyan (Daily Nation; East African), one Nigerian
(Business Day), and six South African papers (Beeld; Die Burger;
Finweek; Mail & Guardian; Sunday Times; Citizen) one each from ZIMBABWE
(Business Weekly-but not updated since Dec. '08), UGANDA (Daily
Monitor), ANGOLA (Journal de Angola) and NAMIBIA (Republikein), and two
from the Sudan (Alraed; Goan Sport) :
http://library.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
A range of other African newspapers are being added to aggregators:
e.g. The Analyst (Liberia) via http://magic.msu.edu/record=b6797189~S39a
II. MSU LIBRARIES Digital Collections: Africana: Zanzibar photo album
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?CollectionID=69
III. SELECTED RECENT WEBSITES OF INTEREST
a). AFRICAN LANGUAGES ONLINE
Online African language teaching resources (with sound and text aids)
include: http://www.indiana.edu/~celtie/portal.html
b). AFRICAN GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.
Sub-Saharan Africa Government Information (usefully refines searches
only to African government websites)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/foreign/gov_africa.html
c). AFRICAN ACTIVIST ARCHIVE (re-launched with much valuable new
digital content) http://africanactivist.msu.edu/
d) MSU PODCASTS ON AFRICA: 'Africa Past and Present'
http://afripod.aodl.org/
e) "AFRICAN STUDIES JOURNALS' (useful, ongoing list of African
Studies Journals) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_studies_journals
IV. COURSE WEBSITES.
New software ('LibGuides') will enable Africana in Fall to offer
faculty more advanced hi-tech course-related websites.
*** Despite the recession, MSU Libraries continues to strongly support
African studies collections, seeking to bring you, the scholar, the best
available research and teaching materials on and from Africa.
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This occasional newsletter is produced by the Africana librarians. We
welcome queries on your Africa-related needs and research. We also
encourage faculty to donate library research materials that are no
longer needed.
Africana Reference (2nd floor, East Wing) Librarians:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/
Joseph Lauer, Africana Librarian, phone 432-6123 ext.237 email:
lauer@msu.edu
Peter Limb, Africana Bibliographer, phone 432-6123 ext.239 email:
limb@msu.edu
Peter Limb & Joe Lauer, Africana
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Peter Limb, Ph.D.
Africana Bibliographer
100 Library (Room E224B)
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1048
phone: (517) 432-6123 ext. 239
fax: (517) 432-3532 email: limb@msu.edu
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