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African Studies offers the most comprehensive access to African information 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 composites are "super records"
* Multi-Disciplinary information on the following topics: Politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, tourism, environment, natural history, 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, University of the Witwatersrand - 33,992 records
* International Library of African Music (ILAM) Grahamstown - 8162 records
* Natural and Cultural Heritage Africa (NACHA) compiled by NISC Grahamstown - 16,387 records

From Europe:
* African Studies Abstracts (ASA) - from African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands. This database is the electronic equivalent of ASA in print (1994- current) including 6 Vols of its predecessor Dokumentatieblad 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
** AIDSearch
** POPLINE

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