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The African Studies Centre Library has a collection consisting of:

  1. About 80,000 books and approximately 450 current serials subscriptions. Total serials holdings amount to approximately 2,200 of which approx. 350 online journals.
  2. About 1,200 online books accessible via the catalogue
  3. Four daily African newspapers on paper, 40 newspapers on microfiche and 65 old African newspapers (1800-1922) online in the database African Newspapers
  4. About 1500 documentaries and feature films on video and DVD available to the public.
  5. 9,500 microfiches of development plans of African States.
  6. Grey literature: government reports, reports of international organizations, brochures, pamphlets.
  7. The online catalogue also contains titles of about 85.000 journal articles (many with abstracts).
  8. An online repository with access to more than 30.000 articles on Africa at www.connecting-africa.net
  9. Coverage of the collection: Geographical: North and Sub-Saharan Africa; disciplinary: anthropology and sociology; history; philosophy; economics, women's studies; political science; management and policy studies; law; administration; religion, education; socio-linguistics; literature and art.
  10. Languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Afrikaans.


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