About the African Studies Collection
Find out more about the collection, including strengths, locations, and formats.
Collection Description
Electronic Book and Text Collections
Electronic Journals
Other Libraries and Special Collections
Purchase Recommendation Form
Collection Description
African collections at the University of California, Berkeley
are estimated at
1,000 serial titles. Although the Gardner (Main) Stacks of
the Doe Library are the principal location for social science and
humanities titles, more than 20 subject specialty and affiliated libraries and
other library units also collect African Studies. Summary information
about these holdings can be found under Africana Library Collections: A Guide.
Berkeley's African Studies Collections cover sub-Saharan countries and include
many publications from adjacent islands. The Library's Islamica
Collections embrace materials from North Africa.
Electronic Book and Text Collections
Books and other texts in electronic form, available online either
individually or as part of larger collections.
Electronic Journals
Many journals in electronic form are available online either individually
or as part of a larger collection. E-Journals only available for
the Berkeley campus are listed in Pathfinder. The California Digital
Library maintains a list of e-journals available to all UC libraries. The following several titles are representative of e-journals in African Studies:
African Studies Quarterly
Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography
African Newspapers Currently Being Received in Print/Microfilm
Daily Nation (Kenya)
Ghanaian Times (Ghana)
Sunday News (Tanzania)
Sunday Standard (Kenya)
Sunday Vision (Sudan)
Taifa Jumapili (Kenya)
Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
For a comprehensive list please see:
Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources - Stanford University
Other Libraries
and Special Collections
Listings of relevant library collections (including links to their
catalogs). Libraries and collections at Berkeley may also be listed
under "Related Pages."
Cooperative Africana Microform Project [CAMP] at the Center for Research Libraries:
The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP), founded in 1963, is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make these materials in microform available to researchers. CAMP's periodical and newspaper titles are found in the Center for Research Libraries online catalog, are also available via MELVYL, the University of California's nine-campus web catalog, as well as on WorldCat.
CAMP acquires large microform sets and authorizes original filming of unique research materials in North America, Africa, and Europe. CAMP collects microform copies of such material as newspapers, journals; government publications; personal and corporate archives and other personal papers, and writings in western and African languages. The microform collections of CAMP form a large pool of historical, political, linguistic, economic and geographical data and primary source materials that are in many cases not available elsewhere.
Guides to many CAMP collections may be accessed at: http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/collections/campguide.htm
Columbia University
WWW Virtual Library for Africa
Library of Congress African and Middle East Reading Room
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Northwestern University Library of African Studies includes a collection of print materials published in or relating to Africa includes more than 260,000 bound volumes. Among these is a non-circulating rare book collection of 5000 volumes. The library also receives more than 3000 periodicals, journals, and newspapers. The collection also includes conference papers and a large collections of uncataloged materials. Consult the Africana Vertical File Index and the Africana Conference Paper Index available through the Northwestern University Library catalog NUcat.
Michigan State University
A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
Stanford University Library Catalog
Stanford's Africana Curator, Karen Fung, maintains the premier gateway to electronic resources for African Studies: Africa South of the Sahara.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This site provides a number of excellent research guides.
Yale University
Purchase Recommendation Form
If you'd like to recommend an item to be added to the collection,
please use the Purchase
Recommendation Form.
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