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Challenges of Broadening Access to Scholarly E-Resources in Africa - the JSTOR example 扩大非洲学术电子资源获取的挑战——以JSTOR为例

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00019907

S. Masinde, T. Okoh

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Into Africa: the Imperial life of Margery Perham, by C. Brad Faught. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. ix + 198 pp. ISBN 9781848854901. £35 《走进非洲：玛格丽·佩勒姆的帝国生活》，C.Brad Faught著。伦敦和纽约：I.B.陶里斯，2012年。ix+198页，ISBN 9781848854901。35英镑

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00019932

T. Barringer

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Writings on African Archives (London, Zell for Scolma, 1996): Supplement 9 非洲档案著述(伦敦，泽尔出版社，1996):增编9

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00019919

J. Macilwaine

{"title":"Writings on African Archives (London, Zell for Scolma, 1996): Supplement 9","authors":"J. Macilwaine","doi":"10.1017/s0305862x00019919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00019919","url":null,"abstract":"This list continues the series of supplements to the original volume. It contains 345 references and should be used in conjunction with Supplement 3, ARD, 79, 1999, 39-62; 80, 1999, 39-44 (containing 244 items and incorporating Supplements 1 and 2); Supplement 6, ARD, 91, 2003, 11-58 (containing 391 items and incorporating Supplements 4 and 5); Supplement 7, ARD, 94, 2004, 21-37 (containing 160 items) and Supplement 8, ARD, 106, 2008, 15-44 (containing 263 items) and also of course with the original work containing 2,355 items. This supplement is concerned primarily to list material published since 2005, but also includes a number of items published earlier that have come to the compiler's attention. For detailed information on topics covered and excluded see Writings on African archives (1996), pp. xi-xiii. Basically coverage in Part 1 is of works about archives and records management and collections of archives and manuscripts in African countries while Part 2 lists works on manuscript and archival collections of African relevance held in countries outside Africa. Collections of Arabic manuscripts in and from the five countries of North Africa, and of Egyptian, Coptic, Ethiopic and Amharic manuscripts in North and North-East Africa are deemed to be the province of Oriental studies and are not included. However writings on collections of Arabic manuscripts in or originating from Africa south of the Sahara and of other non-Western language manuscripts in or originating from this region such as Swahili in East Africa, Malay in South Africa and Arabico-Malgache (Sorabe) in Madagascar are included as are writings on Berber manuscripts in North Africa. Since 2000 there has been a notable increase in the literature about Arabic manuscripts in West Africa especially in Mali, Mauretania and Nigeria. As African archivists become increasingly involved in international activities, so they increasingly write on general archival and records management topics, not necessarily with special reference to their own countries. However, their outlook is naturally informed and affected by their experience and environment, and for that reason such writings are deemed to be of interest and are included. The compiler maintains a single cumulated and edited version of these 9 supplements as a Word file and would be happy to send a copy of this as an attachment to any enquirer. Contact j.mcilwaine@ucl.ac.uk GENERAL PART 1. ARCHIVES IN AFRICA Irvine, O.U. The law and ethics of acquisition of expatriate archives: addressing the 'lack of guidelines', Archives, 34(121) 2009, 6-13 Lovering, T. Expatriate archives, Archives, 34(121) 2009, 1-5 (Introduction to a special issue of the journal containing 5 articles on the topic, several of them originally given as papers to the Workshop on Expatriate Archives, University of the West of England, Bristol, 19 April 2008. See entries for Irvine (above), Banton (UK), Lihoma (Malawi), Murambiwa (Zimbabwe)) McIlwaine, J.H. Writings on Af","PeriodicalId":89063,"journal":{"name":"African research & documentation","volume":"1 1","pages":"59-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56842045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Journal ofthe Royal West African Frontier Force: a new source you may have missed 皇家西非边防部队杂志:一个你可能错过的新来源

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00019968

T. Barringer

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Selected Internet Sources for the Study of Africa 非洲研究的精选互联网资源

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00019890

A. Kagan

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Obituary: Harry Hannam 讣告:哈里·汉纳姆

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00019920

P. Larby

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New light on the Pan-African Association of 1900: a further note 对1900年泛非协会的新认识:进一步说明

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00020367

Gwilym Colenso, C. Saunders

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Cricket and War in Early Rhodesia, 1890-99 早期罗得西亚的板球与战争，1890- 1899

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x0001918x

J. Winch

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Oh, did I contribute?: Experiences from the African Guest Librarian Programme in Uppsala, Sweden 我有贡献吗?:瑞典乌普萨拉非洲客座图书管理员方案的经验

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00020343

Å. Moberg

{"title":"Oh, did I contribute?: Experiences from the African Guest Librarian Programme in Uppsala, Sweden","authors":"Å. Moberg","doi":"10.1017/s0305862x00020343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00020343","url":null,"abstract":"Background The Nordic Africa Institute is a centre for research, documentation and information on modern Africa in the Nordic region. The institute's activities are based on three pillars: research/ policy work, publishing activities and a library /documentation centre. Besides producing its own research, the Institute also stimulates research on Africa in the Nordic countries and promotes cooperation between African and Nordic scholars. Networking is included in promotional activities, primarily expressed by researchers' networks, institutional partnerships and scholarships programs for African researchers and writers. The programmes strengthen the scholarly exchange between African and Nordic research communities. The library is one of the core activities of the Institute. It is charged with monitoring and making available literature and other electronic and physical information carriers of relevance for research, study and information about modern Africa. At the beginning of 2000, discussions were initiated about setting up a guest librarian programme. The initially somewhat vague idea of helping to boost African libraries was developed into a programme with a focus on mutual exchange. Programme formulation The process of formulating the actual programme took time. At the beginning we had doubts whether the library was large enough to have anything to offer an African colleague. To our knowledge, most exchange programmes have profiles in the area of ICT. The Nordic Africa Institute Library is a small research library and we share resources and users with the Uppsala University Library. We have competence in library systems and working with free resources but not the kind of competence gained through complex IT projects. In order to obtain input for the programme we contacted IFLA's ALP office in Uppsala (Action for Development through Libraries Programme) and through discussion with them we found a concept that we thought would be feasible. The input from ALP was very useful. In their experience, the programmes that were perceived as successful for both hosting institution and visiting librarians contained elements of hands-on experience, sometimes on a very basic level. Such programmes, however, were not common. Here we saw an opportunity to use our considerable experience of receiving student librarians for training. What we could offer besides hands-on training to an African colleague was our experience with customised user education and our work with free internet resources. As regards being a small library, we are well situated in the middle of Sweden within travelling distance of other larger libraries. Study visits within the profile of the applicant could be set up for additional input. We wanted the programme to have a feature of mutual benefit and were interested in the exchange of skills and ideas in order to develop our library. As an African studies library, we are struggling to identify African publishing houses and media and lat","PeriodicalId":89063,"journal":{"name":"African research & documentation","volume":"1 1","pages":"65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56842407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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China-Africa Relations: a bibliography addendum 中非关系:参考书目增编

African research & documentation Pub Date : 2011-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305862x00020331

D. Shinn

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