Bibliographical Resources |
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Name
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Description
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| AfricaBib |
AfricaBib is
a project on the Africana periodical literature index that began in 1974.
The site consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical
literature and African Women's literature. The databases have been created
and are maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, director of the Institute for
Economic Advancement (IEA) Research Library. |
| AIDSLINE (Via NLM Gateway) |
Journal articles,
government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers,
monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals on AIDS
and related topics. All languages; publications from 1980 to the present |
| CygNET Online |
The on-line Library
of the University of Western Australia. The site has search tools, infoguides
and library collections in a wide range of research subjects and programmes
including population. |
| H-Africa |
H-Africa is an
international electronic discussion group sponsored by the Humanities
and Social Sciences OnLine consortium of scholarly lists. The site hosts
a list of African on-line journals, bulletins and reviews. |
| JOLIS Library Catalog |
As the library
network serving the World Bank Group and the IMF, JOLIS is open for everyone's
use over the Internet. It includes materials in all the Network Libraries
such as references to books, journal titles, journal articles, working
papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos, software, electronic
resources, and references to published IMF and World Bank materials. |
| Population
Information On-Line (POPLINE) (through Internet Grateful Med) |
Maintained by
the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene
and Public Health and supported by the USAID and UNFPA, POPLINE is the
world's largest bibliographic database on population and reproductive
health issues providing citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature
of journals, newspapers, technical reports, papers, theses and dissertations,
unpublished reports etc. |
| Population Index |
Maintained by
the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Population Index
is a reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents
an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles,
working papers and other materials on population topics. |
| UnCover |
Provides brief,
descriptive information for over 8,800,000 journal articles from over
18,000 multidisciplinary journals published since fall 1988. |
| WHO library and Information
Networks for Knowledge (LNK) |
IThe WHO LNK
provides comprehensive library and information services on WHO-produced
recorded information in print and other media. In addition, library services
give access to worldwide health, medical and development information resources
to WHO headquarters, regions and country offices, ministries of health
and other government offices, health workers in Member States, other UN
and international agencies, and diplomatic missions. |
| WWW
Virtual Library |
This World Wide
Web Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee,
the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it
is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key
links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't
the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being
amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web. |
| www VL on Africa Studies |
This Columbia
University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going
compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials
on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview
of the African
Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources
from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged
to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject. |