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Internet library sub-saharan Africa

Germany

The Internet Library Sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) is a German Internet portal that offers an integrated access to relevant scientific information resources (conventional and digital) in the field of African Studies and the region Africa South of the Sahara. ilissAfrica covers social sciences, history, philology, ethnology and cultural studies. The website is presented in German, English and French. With ilissAfrica users can search databases and library catalogues. They can also look for websites that are relevant for their research interests. The main modules of ilissAfrica are: The General Search A meta search that searches through several databases and library catalogues simultaneously. At present, the following catalogues are integrated: the Africa part of the catalogue of the University Library Frankfurt which is in charge of the Special Collection Africa South of the Sahara of the German Research Foundation the Africa part of the catalogue of the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg which is in charge of the Special Collection Africa South of the Sahara (grey literature) of the German Research Foundation the catalogue of the library of the African Studies Centre Leiden (the biggest library for scientific Africa literature in the Netherlands) the catalogue of the Nordic Africa Institute library in Uppsala/Sweden (joint library for the Scandinavian

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