1. Researching the African Diaspora and Creolité on the Internet Karen Hartman Information Resource Officer U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya February 5, 2008

2. African Studies Portals Yale University http://www.library.yale.edu/african/internet.ht ml http://www.library.yale.edu/african/internet.ht ml Africa South of the Sahara - Stanford University http://library.stanford.edu/africa/guide.html http://library.stanford.edu/africa/guide.html Columbia University Libraries -Africa Research Guide http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa /joebib.html http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa /joebib.html

7. African Studies Archives & Repositories Connecting – Africa (work of Dutch Africanists) http://www.connecting-africa.net http://www.connecting-africa.net Aluka (free to everyone until 6/08, free to all non-profits in Africa after this date) http://www.aluka.orghttp://www.aluka.org African Studies Repository (under development) http://www.africanstudiesrepository.org http://www.africanstudiesrepository.org Africa Research Central http://www.africa-research.org/ - gateway to archives, libraries,and museums with collections of primary sourceshttp://www.africa-research.org/

9. Aluka http://www.aluka.org An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The name ‘Aluka’, is derived from a Zulu word meaning ‘to weave’, reflecting Aluka’s mission to connect resources and scholars from around the world.

13. CODESRIA http://www.codesria.org Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences. Recognised as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production in Africa.

15. DATAD Initiative Database of African Theses and Dissertations Association of African Universities, Accra Ghana http://www.aau.org Must subscribe in order to obtain the full-text.

17. General Repositories OpenDoar http://www.opendoar.orghttp://www.opendoar.org - An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Dspace http://www.dspace.orghttp://www.dspace.org - Captures your data in any format - text, video, audio, and data. - Indexes your work so users can search and retrieve it.

20. World Digital Library http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/proje ct/english/index.html http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/proje ct/english/index.html Joint project of the U.S. Library of Congress and Google

22. H-Africa Discussion Network http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/ Encourages discussion of Africa's history, culture, and African studies generally.

24. Open Access Journal Databases Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.orghttp://www.doaj.org African Journals OnLine (AJOL) http://www.ajol.info http://www.ajol.info African e-journals project http://africa.msu.edu/AEJP/

28. Google Books http://books.google.com Can search contents of books by keyword. Can read a few snippets, sentences of your search term in context If publisher or author has given permission, you can see full pages where your keyword(s) appears. In many cases you can find this book in a local library. Tables of contents are usually available. If book is out of copyright restriction, can download entire book in pdf.

32. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources Can find papers, abstracts, and citations Locate the complete paper in a library

35. JSTOR http://www.jstor.org JSTOR has a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. You can retrieve scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals span many disciplines. Is not a current issues database. Because of its archival mission, there is a gap (1 to 5 years), between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available.

37. Thanks for coming today! Karen Hartman Kphartman@gmail.com