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Free Access to African Information Databases until November 30, 2001
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African Studies - Over half a million unique references

FREE ACCESS over the Internet 

For full details of this powerful bibliographic database aggregation 
check out the African Studies Factsheet:
http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/afrs.htm 

Link to register for "FREE Database of the Month" by clicking near 
the top of the page also from:
http://www.nisc.com 
or 
http://www.nisc.co.za

African Studies offers the most comprehensive access to African in-
formation in one place:
* 17 Bibliographic Databases from major African Studies Libraries and 
  organisations
* Databases from Africa, Europe and the USA - searchable as one, or 
  in any combination 
* More than 620,00 references - keywords with abstracts, or full 
  text 
* Quarterly updates. New databases added as they become available
* Powerful intuitive search engine for fine retrieval
* Special software created composite records resolve the problem of 
  duplication between databases. Everything unique is retained and com-
  posites are "super records" 
* Multi-Disciplinary information:
  Topics covered include: Politics, history, economics, business, min-
  ing, development, social issues, tourism, environment, natural his-
  tory, anthropology, literature, language, law, art, design, music and 
  much more.

Databases 

 From Africa: 
* Africa Institute Pretoria, S. Africa - Best library collection in 
  Africa on Africa under one roof - 75,642 records 
* NAMLIT the Namibian National Bibliography - 49,905 records 
* Don Africana Collection from Durban Metropolitan Library - 46,133 
  records 
* Killie Campbell Africana Library, Durban - 26,497 records 
* SARDIUS databases from the Institute of International Affairs, Uni-
  versity of the Witwatersrand - 33,992 records 
* International Library of African Music (ILAM) Grahamstown - 8162 
  records 
* Natural and Cultural Heritage Africa (NACHA) compiled by NISC Gra-
  hamstown - 16,387 records

 From Europe: 
* African Studies Abstracts (ASA) - from African Studies Centre, Lei-
  den, The Netherlands. This database is the electronic equivalent of 
  ASA in print (1994- current) including 6 Vols of its predecessor Do-
  kumentatieblad and the Library catalogue of books and periodicals -
  53,899 records 
* School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), London, UK, Library 
  Catalogue, Africa and the SOAS periodical holdings - 143,430 + 19,852 
  records 
* Databases of Swiss Theses and Dissertations - 519 records

 From the USA:
* Business & Industry: Africa from National Technical Information 
  Service, NTIS full text articles - 36,851 records

Related Products published by NISC include:

** South African Studies 
   http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/sas.htm 
** African Health Anthology 
   http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/aha.htm 
** AIDSearch 
   http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/qaid.htm 
** POPLINE 
   http://www.nisc.com/factsheets/popl.htm

If you have any questions please contact:

Margaret Crampton
Publisher
Tel: +27-46-622-9698
mailto:info@nisc.co.za 

We look forward to hearing from you
Margaret Crampton 

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