Online edition of selected works from the Heinemann series of modern African literature, published 1946-2003.

• African Writers Series External link, opens in new window.

Brief overview

• Contents: 257 titles of African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose.
• More info: Chadwyck-Healey's presentation of African Writers Series External link, opens in new window.

Access options for full contents

• Remotely: For certain users, yes (check you eligibility)
• At NAI using desktop computer: Yes
• At NAI using wifi: No

Included in search with AfricaLit Plus, our main search tool?

• Yes

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link, opens in new window.

Aggregates and distributes news from 140+ African news organizations and own reporters. Top news, latest news, country and regional news, business, sports and various topics.

Archives include millions of articles from 1996 onwards, and the website comes in an English version as well as a French, reflecting also the language of the news sources.

Access:

• Current news (up to two years old) are free and accessible to anyone. This includes their RSS feeds through which you can keep up to date on specific countries, regions or topics.
  • English version: General website External link, opens in new window. | RSS feeds page External link, opens in new window.
  • French version: General website External link, opens in new window. | RSS feeds page External link, opens in new window.
• Archived news are available for subscribers. NAI has an institutional subscription. This includes an advanced search interface through which you can search on keyword, publisher country, category and date.
  • English version: Automatic access (via IP) at NAI premises External link, opens in new window.
  • French version: Automatic access (via IP) at NAI premises External link, opens in new window.

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link, opens in new window.

Hosted at Centre for Research Libraries (CRL) in USA, CAMP External link. promotes the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. The digital and microform collections form a large pool of historical, political, linguistic, economic, and geographical data and primary source materials that are not available elsewhere.

Access:

• Anyone can browse the records of the CAMP digital collection External link.. At NAI premises digitized contents can be accessed in full External link..
• Print material from the main CRL catalogue External link, opens in new window. can be suggested for digitization instead of interlibrary loan requests.

• SA News External link.

Description will be completed soon. In the meantime, read the publisher's info about the two main products included, SA Media External link, opens in new window. and ANA Newswires External link, opens in new window..

Access options for full contents

• Remotely: For certain users (check your eligibility)
• At NAI using desktop computer: Yes
• At NAI using wifi: No

Included in search with AfricaLit Plus External link, opens in new window., our main search tool?

• No

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link, opens in new window.

Combination of several databases, providing access to more than 4 million references.

• Africa-Wide Information External link, opens in new window.

Brief overview

• Topics: Politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism etc.
• Sources: Books, periodicals and magazines articles, radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, reports, theses, music recordings etc.
• Coverage: 1800s to the present.
• More info: EBSCO's presentation of Africa-Wide Information External link, opens in new window.

Access options for full contents

• Remotely: For certain users (check your eligibility)
• At NAI using desktop computer: Yes
• At NAI using wifi: No

Included in search with AfricaLit Plus External link, opens in new window., our main search tool?

• No

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link, opens in new window.

Peer-reviewed bibliographies. Short introductions followed by listing of annotated citations. Regularly updated. We subscribe to two subject areas, both including a few hundred articles/topics each:

• African Studies External link, opens in new window.
• Geography External link, opens in new window.

Access options for full contents

• Remotely?: For certain users (check your eligibility)
• At NAI premises on wifi: No
• At NAI premises on desktop computers: Yes

Searchable in AfricaLit Plus?

• Yes

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link.

Peer-reviewed, regularly updated encyclopedia. We subscribe to the subject area African history, which includes close to 400 articles.

• African history External link, opens in new window.

Access options for full contents

• Remotely?: For certain users (check your eligibility)
• At NAI premises on wifi: No
• At NAI premises on desktop computers: Yes

Searchable in AfricaLit Plus?

• No

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link.

76 collections, 20K+ objects, 190K+ pages focusing on the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. More info on JSTOR website External link, opens in new window..

Access:

• Struggles for freedom: Southern Africa External link, opens in new window.

Privacy policy including information about cookies External link, opens in new window.

AfricaBib External link, opens in new window.. Five bibliographic databases in one: Africana Periodical Literature, African Women, Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-2004, Islam in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, and Kenya Coast.

African Studies Library External link, opens in new window.. Search several Africa-focused catalogues in one interface. Hosted at the Goethe University Library in Frankfurt

ASKIA - Access to Scientific Knowledge in Africa External link, opens in new window.. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa's federated search portal for scientific and socio-economic information on Africa from several different sources - including Open Access literature, commercial databases, online journals, (UN)ECA publications, etc.

Connecting Africa External link, opens in new window.. A service that provides access to African research information and materials produced in the Netherlands and elsewhere.

Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Critical Bibliography External link, opens in new window.. An online version of the book with the same title.

Nordic countries each have national portals for academic research published. The repositories contain a mix of references and open access fulltexts.

Denmark

Research Portal Denmark

The Research Portal Denmark External link, opens in new window. (launched in March 2024) facilitates "discovery, exploration, and analysis of Danish research – from input, to output, and impact".

Direct search:

• Publications on Africa and the separate countries, within social sciences and humanities External link, opens in new window..

Finland

Research.fi

Research.fi contains information on the Finnish research system, publications by Finnish organizations, projects funded by public and private research funders, and statistical information on the development of research resources and impact. The service is planned to be extended to research data and other data sets in the future.

Direct search:

• Publications with search term Africa, within social sciences External link, opens in new window.
  (sorted to the most recent titles on the top of the hitlist. Change to other relevant geographical areas like Namibia for other records. It is possible to search on open access publications only)

Iceland

Opin vísindi

The institutional repository of several universities on Iceland hold peer reviewed articles and dissertations open access. It is possible to search with combined search terms as well as to limit search results according to year etc.

Direct search:

• Publications with the search terms Africa OR Guinea Bissau OR Tanzania External link, opens in new window.
  (change to other relevant geographical areas like Nigeria etc. for other result lists)

Skemman

Skemman is a collective digital repository for publications until 2016 for universities on Iceland. Skemman contains both full text as well as references and it is possible to search and browse.

Direct search:

• Publications with the word Africa in the bibliographical information External link, opens in new window.

Norway

CRISTIN Current Research Information System In Norway

Collective database for academic output in Norway.

Direct search:

• Publications with search term Africa in the title from 2021 and onwards External link, opens in new window.
  (change to other relevant geographical areas like Nigeria etc for other records. The search results for several search terms in a row is unreliable.)

Sweden

Swepub

Swepub contains references to research publications registered in at present approximately 40 of the Swedish universities and of other authority publication databases.

Direct search:

• Social sciences publications with country names or Africa in the record, 2021—2023 External link, opens in new window.
  (it is not possible to select open access publications only. For a more narrow list, search on a single country name.)

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). External link, opens in new window. Search and browse peer reviewed, scholarly open access books.

Doria. External link, opens in new window. Multi-institutional repository maintained by National Library of Finland.

IREON External link, opens in new window. – The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway External link, opens in new window.. Large social science databases in Europe. It contains more than 1 million references, mainly journal and book articles, non-paywalled online texts, and grey literature. Possible to cho0se open access publications.

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) External link, opens in new window.
Search for full text theses and dissertations in the NDLTD Catalog.

NORA. External link, opens in new window. Norwegian open research archives

OAPEN Library. External link, opens in new window. Freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Open Knowledge Repository. External link, opens in new window. The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products, among others reports, journal articles, serial publications, working papers etc.

The Swedish Media Database (SMDB). External link, opens in new window. Search TV and radio broadcasts, documentary films and much more, some of them with an African focus. Researchers can order materials from the SMDB and access the material either at the National Library in Stockholm or as an interlibrary loan on DVD at a university library. SMDB is only available in Swedish.

SwePub. External link, opens in new window. Academic publications at Swedish universities. Search among scholarly articles, conference papers and dissertations etc.

Libraries and archives. From Africa south of the Sahara. Selected internet resources ed. by Karen Fung, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources. [Archived at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, 24 Oct 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20211024130551/https://library.stanford.edu/africa-south-sahara/browse-topic/libraries-archives/african-libraries External link, opens in new window.]

Bibliotek.dk - locate books and more in Danish libraries External link.

DIIS Library (Danish Institute for International Studies) External link.

Finna.fi - search Finnish archives, libraries, museums and other organisations External link.

Leitir.is - Icelandic discovery portal for libraries and other collections External link.

Libris - union catalogue of Swedish libraries External link.

Oria.no - search in the Norwegian academic libraries' resources External link.

Uppsala University Library External link.

African Studies Centre Catalogue. Search the library collection of ASC, Leiden, The Netherlands; social and economic development, political and constitutional developments, as well as anthropology, sociology, religion, law, education, contemporary history and literature.
https://catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/primo-explore/search?vid=UBL_V1&search_scope=lib_asc&sortby=rank&tab=leiden&lang=en_US&mode=simple External link, opens in new window.

BCEA, the Portuguese Central Library of African Studies. https://bcea.cei.iscte-iul.pt/en/catalog/ External link, opens in new window.

Bibliotèque nationale de France with several catalogues to search. http://www.bnf.fr/ External link, opens in new window.

British Library. https://bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44BL_INST:BLL01&lang=en External link, opens in new window.

Clark Library, MLibrary - Stephen S. Clark Library, MLibrary, Univ. of Michigan, for Maps and Government Information. https://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library External link, opens in new window.

IDS/BLDS. British Library for Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK. Library catalogue and other resources on economic and social change in developing countries. http://blds.ids.ac.uk/search-the-collection External link, opens in new window.

The Library Network catalogue, serving the World Bank Group and IMF. https://library.worldbankimflib.org/ External link, opens in new window.

Library of Congress. https://catalog.loc.gov/ External link, opens in new window.

NU Libraries Searchcat. Catalogue of the Northwestern University Libraries. Search special NU Databases, Africana Conference Paper Index and the Africana Vertical File Index. https://search.library.northwestern.edu External link, opens in new window.

School of Oriental and African Studies. https://library.soas.ac.uk/ External link, opens in new window.

University library of Mainz / The Library of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies. http://opac.ub.uni-mainz.de/ External link, opens in new window.

University of Vienna, African and Middle Eastern Studies Library / African Studies Holding 1991-. https://usearch.univie.ac.at/primo-explore/search?vid=UWI&lang=en_US External link, opens in new window.

WorldCat (OCLC). Cross search a database of over 1 billion books, music, videos, articles and other items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. https://www.worldcat.org/ External link, opens in new window.