African Studies - Finding Books

University of Washington:

UW Libraries Catalog
Catalog to the holdings of the University of Washington Libraries.
UW E-Book Collection
Electronic books available for use by University of Washington students, faculty and staff.
UW Law Library Catalog
Catalog to the holdings of the Gallagher Law Library.

Catalogs, Africa

African Studies Center, Leiden, Catalogue
The African Studies Centre in Leiden is the only academic research institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa. The Centre's catalogue provides journal article and book chapter abstracts, and bibliopraphic records for books, periodicals, government doucments, brochures and panphlets, and microforms on Africa.

Catalogs of Other Libraries:

Center for Research Libraries' Public Access Catalog
Catalog to the Center for Research Libraries; especially strong for archival materials, newspapers and foreign dissertations.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.
OCLC WorldCat - UW Restricted
Union catalog to the major research libraries here and abroad.
OhioLINK Central Catalog Ohio Library and Information Network
Catalog to the holdings of academic libraries in Ohio; useful for chapter information for books published after 1990.
Summit: Orbis/Cascade Catalog
Summit, the Orbis-Cascade Alliance union catalog, combines information from 26 academic libraries into a single unified database.
World Bank e-Library: Africa Collection - UW Restricted
The "African Collection" portal of the World Bank e-Library includes those titles that are specific to the World Bank's work in the region or have a regional focus.

Dissertations:

Dissertation Abstracts - UW Restricted
Citations to dissertations written at U.S. universities from 1861 on. Includes abstracts for those written after 1980 plus some foreign disserations.

Search Engine:

Google Books
Search the full text of books. When you find a relevant book, it's a good idea to look at the actual book as there may be more useful content than is apparent from Google Print.



Created by: Harry Murphy
Last modified: Monday December 17, 2007 (maurice@u.washington.edu)