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Selected Internet Sources for the Study of Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Al Kagan
Al Kagan*
Affiliation:
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois Library, Urbana/Champaign, USA
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The following comments, analysis, and guide grow out of publishing two editions of a reference book and teaching a course on the Bibliography of Africa for the past nineteen years at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. The course is required for all Masters students in African Studies.

Two major issues have emerged with compiling the following guide to the best online sources for the study of Africa. The first is the fast growth of digital sources, and the increasing need to have access to the Internet to do research on Africa. The second is the uneven mix between open access and fee-based access to these online resources, and therefore the growing gap between rich institutions and scholars and struggling organisations and individuals who are at a disadvantage in accessing knowledge.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 117 , 2011 , pp. 19 - 47
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 2011

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1 Kagan, Alfred and Scheven, Yvette, Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources (Lanham, Maryland and London: Scarecrow Press, 1999).Google Scholar

2 Kagan, Alfred, Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources, 2nd edition (Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, and Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2005).Google Scholar

3 Kagan, Alfred, ed., “The Growing Gap between the Information Rich and the Information Poor, both Within Countries and Between Countries: A Composite Policy Paper,” IFLA Journal 20, 1 (2000): 28-33Google Scholar (http://www.ifla.org/VII/dg/srdg/srdg7.htm). Reprinted in Ershova, Tatiana V. and Hohlov, Yuri, eds., Libraries in the Information Society, 39-46 (Munchen: K. G. Saur, 2002).CrossRefGoogle Scholar Also in Alternative Library Literature 1998-1999: A Biennial Anthology (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2000?).Google Scholar

4 http://www.shikanda.net/topicalities/Open%20Africa%20Initiative.htm

5 http://www.widernet.org/