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RESOURCES FOR AFRICANS AND AFRICANISTS

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AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND SOCIETY -- full-text articles from the Digital Commons Network 

Over 2,000 full-text articles from over 1,300 authors representing all levels and disciplines of Academia.

 

 

 

Africa and Middle Eastern Resources from the U.S. Library of Congress:

 

 

 

 

SELECT QUOTES ON AFRICA FROM FAMOUS WRITERS:

 

"I believe that the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent itself, its presence which for some people is like an old fever, latent always in their blood, or like an old wound throbbing in the bones as the air changes. That is not a place to visit unless one chooses to be an exile ever afterwards from an inexplicable majestic silence lying just over the border of memory or of thought. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a larger landscape."

-- Doris Lessing, in her preface to African Stories.

 

 

 

“The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”

---Chinua Achebe, author of THINGS FALL APART

 

 

 

This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race.

Few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of the intense desire which the people of my race showed for an education. As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn. As fast as any kind of teachers could be secured, not only were day-schools filled, but night-schools as well. The great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died. With this end in view, men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school. Sunday-schools were formed soon after freedom, but the principal book studied in the Sunday-school was the spelling-book.  Day-school, night-school, Sunday-school, were always crowded, and often many had to be turned away for want of room."

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)

 

 

 

PERSONAL NOTE: 

 

My own interest in the African continent grew from having lived in Africa for over 13 years.

  

I lived for 3 years each in Egypt and Nigeria, and nearly 4 years in Ghana. I also traveled extensively to countries in Central, East, and Southern Africa, and worked in the following countries for various periods of time: Equatorial Guinea (Malabo and Bata), Cabo Verde (Praia), Sao Tome, Cameroon (Douala, Yaounde, and Bamenda), Gabon (Libreville and Port Gentil), Rwanda, Malawi (Lilongwe and Blantyre), Burundi (Bujumbura and Gitega,) Angola, South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria) Libya, Tchad (Ndjamena and Commune de Mao) Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Benin, Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia (Monrovia and Buchanan,) Sierra Leone, Zambia (Lusaka and Kitwe), the DRC (Kinshasa,) and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville and Pointe Noire.)

 

 

And, I must confess to a certain bias when constructing this website: I have a deep and abiding love for the African continent.

 

 

 

(AN EDITORIAL ON WHY AFRICA MATTERS )

 

 

Africa is beautiful, and incredibly diverse.

 

 

OBJECTIVE: This website is devoted to curating and showcasing free educational and academic resources about Africa from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives -- Open Access materials are designed to promote learning, reflection, and scholarship.  

This website will continue to promote the best free student-orienteand scholarly resources for research, study, academic reflection, adult learning, Faculty teaching, and immersion in a particular field.

 

This is the very purpose behind the Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) movement -- to place powerful free databases, new generation search engines, free lecture notes and course materials, well-constructed lesson plans, and free peer-reviewed textbooks before students, scholars, professors, researchers, community activists, and adult learners.

 

 

To learn more about OA (Open Access) and OER (Open Educational Resources) please click on this link.

 

 

 

The Best Free Academic Databases and New Search Engines are listed here  

 

 

 

How to find OER resources?  Click this link.

(Includes how to use Search Tools to find OER)

 

 

This website grew out of two recent educational grants I was awarded by a U.S. Embassy in East Africa --both the structure and content of this website are based on my teaching seminars kindly arranged by the Embassy through these grants.

 

 

 

A FEW OF THESE DATABASES ARE MORE GENERAL -- BUT ALL RESOURCES BELOW ARE FREE:

All resources OFFER SUBSTANTIAL, SCHOLARLY RESEARCH ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT THAT WILL BE USEFUL TO AFRICAN SCIENTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND RESEARCHERS, including students anywhere interested in learning more about the African continent.

 

 

I do include databases with rich resources on Haiti and the Caribbean, due to the presence of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean over centuries.

 

 

Materials on Slavery and the fate of enslaved Africans in America (and the Americas) may also be found here. Scholars are now arguing that what happened to enslaved Africans is (sadly and tragically) part of Africa's story too.

 

 

ALL the resources identified in this website are free; some may require registration, but, the registration process is absolutely free.  (The Registration process often involves creating a private login and a personal password of your own choosing; in this sense, it is precisely like creating your own - new- Facebook account.)

 

 

My hope is that the free resources below will assist Africanists: those interested in studying, researching and writing about the African continent.

 

Research materials in this website will also be useful for what a few scholars call the larger African World (the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Americas.)

 

 

 

BEGINNING RESEARCH HINTS


CRS REPORTS, 


DASH (DIGITAL ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP from HARVARD) -- HARVARD UNIVERSITY

("What is DASH? A central, open-access repository of research by members of the Harvard community")

 

GRAFT (a new mega-Search Engine covering hundreds of academic repositories, useful for any topic) 

 

and SSRN, (the Social Sciences Research Network - a free database; please register to set up a free account; the registration process is free and akin to setting up a brand new Facebook account)


These are all truly excellent resources for Africa-related research, as is a new website:

WHERE TO FIND FREE TEXTBOOKS: A RESOURCE LIST

 

A SEARCH ENGINE TO LOCATE FREE ACADEMIC TEXTBOOKS

 

and

 

FREE ACADEMIC RESOURCES: HOW OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES HELP STUDENTS:

FREE ACADEMIC OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES: A RESEARCH and TEACHING GUIDE FOR YOUR STUDENTS  (latest 2023 updates)

 

 

 The HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES THINK TANK SEARCH ENGINE

and AJOL (AFRICAN JOURNALS ONLINE) are also superb and incredibly valuable for Africa- related research.

(I do suggest completing the free Registration link for AJOL and then signing in once the registration process is complete.)

 

 

This new Preprint Search Engine is truly invaluable for very current articles about Africa: HERE

 

 

All the Databases and Search Engines above and below will be incredibly useful for Africa-related research.  

 

And, I very strongly suggest that researchers and students use a variety of these databases for the most comprehensive search results.

 

 

(Descriptions of databases, and search engines useful for Africa-related research may be found below)

 

 

 

 

GENERAL RESOURCES:

 

 

BREAKING NEWS

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN STUDIES INTERNET SOURCES

(COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY)

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET

(COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY)

 

 

 

 

GETTING STARTED ON LITERATURE ON AFRICA (from Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies, African Studies Center.)

 

 

 

 

OER AFRICA (offers links on Understanding OER, Open Education Online Tutorials, as well as Africa's COVID-19 Response) https://www.oerafrica.org/

 

 

 

 

 

SPECIFIC RESOURCES: 

 

 

 

AFRICAN DIASPORA ARCHAEOLOGY NEWSLETTER  (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

("African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter seeks to highlight the complexities of our field through dialogue and exchange.

This newsletter also serves as the vehicle to engage with centuries of muted voices uncovered by the archaeological record, politics of representation and narrative, as well as intersections of power, privilege and oppression. One of the many challenges of our discipline is to figure out how to push the scholarly parameters and think more complexly about life across the Diaspora.

The material record is always in conversation with the social world, thus reminding us to keep these discussions open."

 

An example of an article in the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter is this one:

Understanding Nigeria within the Context of the Atlantic World  Samuel Oluwole Ogundele

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN AGRICULTURE and AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

 

ALSO SEE:

FREE AGRICULTURE, AGRONOMY and AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS TEXTBOOKS

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN ART: EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES from the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART (WASHINGTON, D.C.) CLASSROOM AND TEACHER RESOURCES

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN ART HISTORY: THE BRIGHT CONTINENT (from OER COMMONS)

Read Book

Contents

  1. Title Page

  2. Introduction

  3. Acknowledgments

  4. Dedication

  5. Chapter 1: Orientation to Africa and its Art

  6. Chapter 1.1: General Introduction

  7. Chapter 1.2: Gender, Materials, Techniques in Traditional Art

  8. Chapter 1.3: Training and Patronage in Traditional Art

  9. Chapter 1.4: Contemporary African Art: Materials, Gender and Training

  10. Chapter 1.5: Patronage in Contemporary African Art

 

Chapter 2: Analyzing and Discussing African Art

  1. Chapter 2.1 Elements of Design

  2. Chapter 2.2 Principles and Considerations of Design

  3. Chapter 2.3 "Rules" for Traditional African Art

  4. Chapter 2.4 Stylistic Analysis

  5. Chapter 2.5 Contextual Analysis

 

Chapter 3: Themes in African Art

  1. Chapter 3.1 Animals

  2. Chapter 3.2 Coupling Up

  3. Chapter 3.3 Motherhood

  4. Chapter 3.4 Art and Youth Initiation

  5. Chapter 3.5 Art and Medicine

  6. Chapter 3.6: Art and Divination

  7. Chapter 3.7 Art and Death

  8. Chapter 3.8 Portraiture

  9. Chapter 3.9 African Art as Inspiration

 

Chapter 4: The Impact of Religion and Hierarchy on African Art

  1. Chapter 4.1 Traditional Religion and Art

  2. Chapter 4.2 Christianity and Art

  3. Chapter 4.3 Islam and Art

  4. Chapter 4.4 Art in Nomadic Societies

  5. Chapter 4.5 Art in Small-Scale Communities

  6. Chapter 4.6 Kingdom-based art

Appendix A: Taking Notes

Appendix B: Studying for and Taking Tests

Appendix C: Researching a Project--Introductory Level

Appendix D: Maps and Ethnic Groups

Map: Bamana and Mande

Map of the Kongo Peoples

 

 

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES ON AFRICAN ART FROM *OASIS

 

*OASIS - oasis.geneseo.edu

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Information on:

COUNTRIES

 

NEWS AND EVENTS   (Includes SUCCESS STORIES )

 

DOCUMENTS

 

PROJECTS (look at the left margin -- found under FLAGSHIP PROJECTS -- lists ongoing projects by country)

 

TOPICS AND SECTORS

 

KNOWLEDGE (This section also includes PUBLICATIONS and STATISTICS)

 

CONTACTS

 

Here is a sample publication about African Youth Unemployment from the African Development Bank: A summary of the report is below -- the full report - with related reports - on African Youth Unemployment may be found here and here and here:

"Africa has the world’s youngest population, with a median age of 19.7 years. Such a large youthful population might ordinarily symbolize an ample and energetic workforce, a boon for the development prospects of any region. But the dire employment situation for young people across Africa continues to snuff out their potential.

According to the African Development Bank, in 2015, one-third of Africa’s then 420 million young people between 15 and 35 years old were unemployed, another third were vulnerably employed, and only 1 in 6 was in wage employment.

Although Africa has the lowest unemployment rate globally on paper among youth ages 15 to 24 (10.6 percent in 2021, according to the International Labor Organization), the majority of Africa’s youth work informally, and many are underemployed or remain in poverty despite working due to low wages and the lack of a social safety net, making it difficult to compare African countries to more advanced economies.

The African Development bank reports that while 10 million to 12 million youth enter the workforce in Africa each year, only 3 million formal jobs are created annually.

African youth have no choice but to work, because most countries on the continent have little or no social protection. According to the African Development Bank, it is therefore common to see humanities and social sciences graduates driving taxis in Algiers, and Cameroonian engineers ferrying passengers on commercial motorcycles in Douala."

 

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN EDUCATION RESEARCH DATABASE

("The database aims to raise the visibility of African research, consolidate the evidence base for policy and practice, and inform future research priorities and partnerships."

"The AERD includes peer-reviewed articles, chapters, PhD theses and working papers identified through structured searches of academic and grey literature databases, expert consultation, and pearl-growing techniques.  

For further information, please see the Literature Search Protocol.   Use the database by applying one or more filters: country, keywords, research methods – and/or by entering one or more words in the ‘Search term’ box. Browse the keywords here.")

This Database is searchable and includes a list of thematic areas.

 

 

EDUCATION: FOR MORE GENERAL RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES, EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES, AND EDUCATIONAL POLICIES IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, THIS FREE DATABASE IS ESSENTIAL: ERIC

 

ERIC = EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE

 

 

 

 

 

 

African Health OER Network Impact Research Plan 

The goal of the evaluation research is to demonstrate the value and impact of the Network to funders, existing and potential institutional partners, OER creators and users, networks of African health education providers, and the international OER...

PDF file (673.7KB)

 

 

HISTORY:

 

A Free Course on African History from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

 

AFRICAN HISTORY from the DIGITAL COMMONS DATABASE  (Scholarly articles, all Open Access)

 

 

STUDENTS MIGHT ALSO SEARCH the VIRTUAL READING ROOM OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE (George Washington University)

(To search the rest of the site, use the search box at the top right of the page.)

 

 

From COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES ONLINEVol 83, No 8 (2022) 

South African History Online. Access: https://www.sahistory.org.za

"South African History Online (SAHO) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to address the biased way the historical and cultural heritage of South Africa and the African continent has been represented in educational and cultural institutions. Founded in 1998, SAHO has become the largest and most comprehensive website on South African and African history and culture, and it has been recognized as a national cultural and heritage asset. SAHO partners with universities to further knowledge production that supports teaching and learning and to ensure the integrity of their content. It also partners with community groups to support the building of a people’s history through oral history projects and other efforts.

The website is divided into sections: “Society and Politics,” “Art and Culture,” “Biographies,” “Africa,” “Classroom,” “Places,” “Timelines,” “Archives,” “Publications.”

“Society and Politics is a rich resource that can be explored by time period or by topic. Articles provide inclusive and objective accounts of the struggle for democracy and the history of organizations and movements.

The “Biographies” section is a great way to explore the individual stories of people who have contributed to building South Africa.

 Biographies are grouped into categories including “Lives of Courage,” “Banned People,” “LBGTQI+,” and “Women.” The stories of their lives are powerful, moving, and often devastating. This section of the website brings history to a very personal level.

“Classroom” provides a wealth of material for educators and students. There is an entire history curriculum for grades 4–12, with materials that are also linked to the rest of the site, providing resources far beyond what would be found in traditional textbooks.

The “Archives” link in the top menu leads to SAHO’s extensive archive of more than forty thousand resources including text, audio, and visual material. The archive is searchable by keyword, and there are basic instructions on constructing effective searches. The website is clearly organized.

Articles are well referenced and provide numerous links to related content. However, some links to “Collections in the Archive” lead to placeholder pages with no content other than invitations to contribute material. SAHO also has extensive video content on its YouTube channel, which is prominently linked throughout the site. SAHO will be helpful to students and faculty interested in South African history."

—Review by Lori Robare, University of Oregon, lrobare@uoregon.edu

 

 

HISTORY AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT: 

Pyramids, pharaohs, mummies, oh my! Check out 1440's topic page on ancient Egypt.

 

 

 

 

RELATED FIELDS: 

 

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE (Florida State University, Jacksonville)

Traces African-American History from Africa to the present day

CONTENTS:

I. Module 1: African Origins – History and Culture

1. Introduction 

2. Africans before Captivity 

3. Medieval West Africa 

4. West Africa, 1300 – 1800AD 

5. West Central Africa, 14th – 18th Centuries

 

II. Module 2: The African Slave trade and the Atlantic World

6. Introduction 

7. The Transatlantic Slave Trade 

8. Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves? 

9. Summary 

10. Primary Sources

 

III. Module 3: The Development Indentured Servitude and Racial Slavery in the American Colonies

11. Introduction 

12. The Settling of Virginia 

13. Tightening the Bonds of Slavery 

14. Africans in the Low Country

 

IV. Module 4: African Americans and the American Revolution

15. Introduction 

16. African Americans and the Rhetoric of Revolution 

17. Fighting Their Way to Freedom 

18. The Impact of the Revolution on Slavery 

19. Primary Sources

 

V. Module 5: Creating an African-American Culture

20. Introduction 

21. Language 

22. Spiritual Life: Public & Secret 

23. Performing Culture in Music & Dance

 

VI. Module 6: The Abolitionist Movement

24. Introduction 

25. The Abolitionist Movement 

26. Atlantic Origins of Reform 

27. William Lloyd Garrison 

28. Frederick Douglass 

29. Primary Sources

 

VII. Module 7: The Westward Expansion of Slavery

30. Introduction 

31. The Creation Of The Cotton Kingdom 

32. The Domestic Slave Trade 

33. Life as a Slave in the Cotton Kingdom 

34. The Free Black Population

 

VIII. Module 8: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis

35. Introduction 

36. The Sectional Crisis 

37. The Crisis Joined 

38. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men 

39. From Sectional Crisis to National Crisis

 

IX. Module 9: African Americans and the Civil War

40. Introduction 

41. The Election of 1860 and Secession 

42. A War for Union? (1861—1862) 

43. War for Freedom (1863—1865) 

44. Black Soldiers and Union War Victories (1864—1865) 

45. Primary Sources

 

X. Module 10: Reconstruction

46. Introduction 

47. Politics of Reconstruction 

48. Racial Violence in Reconstruction 

49. The End of Reconstruction

 

 

 

RACE, ETHNICITY and POST-COLONIAL STUDIES -- from the DIGITAL COMMONS DATABASE  (Scholarly articles, all Open Access)

 

 

 

AFRICANA STUDIES -- from the DIGITAL COMMONS DATABASE  (Scholarly articles, all Open Access)

 

 

 

AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND SOCIETIES -- from the DIGITAL COMMONS DATABASE  (Scholarly articles, all Open Access)

 

 

 

Caribbean Languages and Societies -- from the DIGITAL COMMONS DATABASE  (Scholarly articles, all Open Access)

I include this link because of the connections b/w Africa and the Caribbean

(see, for example, this Master's Thesis: "Organizing Afro-Caribbean Communities: Processes of Cultural Change under Danish West Indian SlaveryClick Download to view the entire Master's thesis

 

 

 

 

AFRICAN JOURNALS ONLINE (AJOL)

("African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. 

AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Millions of monthly downloads by site users from nearly every country in the world are an indication of the need and widespread use of the AJOL initiative. More than half of the repeat users are from Africa.")

 

AJOL has a Search Engine enabling researchers to focus in on their precise topic.

(As an example, I searched the Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe for articles and literary criticism.)

 

AJOL hosts 538 Journals (as of 9/30/2021)
including 277 Open Access Journals  

AJOL currently has 15,931 Issues
containing 194, 194 Abstracts
with 187,870 Full Text Articles for download 
of which 126,206 are Open Access  

 

538 African Journals in AJOL   (as of 9/30/2021)

 

 

 

 

AfricaArxiv: The Pan-African Open Access Portal: one of the leading Preprint Databases designed by/for African scientists, and those interested in the African continent.

 

"AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works to catalyze the African Renaissance.

We partner with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers on the African continent and globally."

 

SEARCH AfricaArxiv: https://osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/discover

 

NOTE: ADDITIONAL PREPRINT DATABASES, IN MANY OTHER ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES, ARE LISTED HERE

 

A GENERAL PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE (with current articles about Africa) IS AVAILABLE HERE

 

 

 

Discover more Africa-related research:

AfricArXiv preprints on OSF

AfricArXiv preprints on OSF:

osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/

Preprint manuscripts that were published on AfricArXiv via the Open Science Framework (OSF).

 

A GENERAL PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE IS AVAILABLE HERE

 

 

Digital Research Repositories

Digital Research Repositories:

internationalafricaninstitute.org

This resource will list of repositories within the African continent.

 

 

 

African Journals Online

African Journals Online:

ajol.info

Online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.

 

 

AAS Open Research

AAS Open Research:

aasopenresearch.org

A platform for rapid publication and open peer review for researchers.

"Enables researchers to publish any research they wish to share, supporting reproducibility, transparency and impact."

 

 

'Africa' Open Knowledge Map

'Africa' Open Knowledge Map:

openknowledgemaps.org

Contextualised search results based on metadata and keywords and tagged with 'Africa'.

 

Africa-specific BASE results

Africa-specific BASE results: BASE is one of the most powerful, free, databases now available,

along with GRAFT, Core, and the Internet Archive Scholar, all listed above and below.

base-search.net

BASE provides a voluminous search engine / database especially for academic web research.

Searches over 274,000 documents from over 9,200 content providers.

A very powerful, free, database for African researchers, and, indeed, for students and scholars anywhere in the world.

 

 

 

 

AGRICULTURE AND AGRONOMY: SEE AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARCHITECTURE:

 

THE ART OF AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE

(Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/atl and 

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/do/discipline_browser/disciplines 

Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons, African Studies Commons, Modern Art and Architecture Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons)

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: RESOURCES and RESEARCH

(includes Free Textbooks and free databases to research projects and ideas)

 

 

 

 

 

CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORE: "The world’s largest collection of open access research papers"

Searches over 207 million papers and scholarly articles on all topics/subjects.

"Stay up to date with the latest Open Access research on COVID-19"

 

 

 

 

 

COVID-19: RESEARCHING CORONAVIRUS:

HOW TO RESEARCH COVID 19-  INFORMATION, DATABASES AND RESEARCH ARTICLES

 

CORONAVIRUS LATEST PREPRINTS via RESEARCH SQUARE (updated daily with new research)

 

RESEARCH ON THE OMICRON VARIANT FROM A LEADING PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE (Scroll down to view results, or, use this PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE.

 

A COVID-19 Subset for bioRxiv and medRxiv (indexes the latest articles) 

 

bioRxiv:   bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.

 

Medical Research Network (MedRN)  A subset of the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), MedRN, including a Coronavirus “e-journal” to which one can subscribe: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalBrowse&journal_id=3526423.

 

medRxiv   medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

 

A MORE COMPLETE LISTING OF PREPRINTS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS IS AVAILABLE HERE

 

The impact of COVID on trade in Africa  (London School of Economics Blog Post)

Luke, David and Macleod, Jamie (2021) The impact of COVID on trade in Africa. LSE COVID-19 Blog (13 Dec 2021). LSE Blog Entry.

Abstract:   "How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected African trade, and can a recovery be steered towards a more sustainable model? David Luke and Jamie MacLeod (LSE) examine the latest data and ask what this means for African policymakers seeking to deliver real development."

 

COVID-19 impact on the African cultural and creative sector

 

"COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ICT AND EDUCATION SYSTEM IN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES"

COVID_19_PANDEMIC_ICT_AND_EDUCATION_SYST.pdf  (for the full text of the article)

 

COVID 19 and Afrocentric Perspectives: Health and Economic Implications

COVID_19_and_Afrocentric_Perspectives.pdf    (for the full text of the article)

 

 

 

 

 

CRS REPORTS  (CRS = the Congressional Research Service)

Searching the Congressional Research Service will yield specific studies about Africa, and African countries, and indeed, many other countries around the world. (ex. Haiti)

 

CRS is well-known for producing well-written --and exhaustively researched -- political, social, legal and economic studies of Africa (as well as reports and analyses of global issues, and on  countries around the world.) These reports are written by professional researchers, and highly trained Librarians. CRS REPORTS are where professionals go to learn in-depth about political, legal, social and economic issues.

 

Sample CRS Research Studies:  

 

ABOUT CRS

 

 

 

 

 

 

DASH (DASH = Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard)

Allows full-text access to the scholarship produced and published by Harvard Faculty, Harvard Librarians, and Graduate Students. 

DASH offers impressive scholarship (from Harvard) on Africa, and African issues and themes, as well as valuable research on other countries and global issues.

Examples:  U.S. Food Aid and Civil Conflict  and Political Conflict and State Failure

SAMPLE ARTICLES FOUND IN DASH:

 

Ethnic Political Settlements in Post-Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda 

 

and

 

Exploring Diaspora Ties to Homeland Neo-Colonialist Movements: The Case of Chinese Diaspora Influence During the "New Scramble for Africa

 

and

 

Shooting Through the Barrel of a Gun: Using Film to Challenge the ‘Single Story’ of Africa 

 

 

 

 

 

DIGITAL COMMONS NETWORK (for searching across hundreds of academic repositories)

"The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.  The Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers,conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work."

See Below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

DISSERTATIONS AND THESES (HOW TO FIND THE COMPLETE, FULL TEXT OF MANY RECENT DISSERTATIONS)

(PLEASE NOTE: these free Dissertation Search Engines are most certainly not comprehensive -- but -- using them efficiently can allow retrieval of the full text of many recent Dissertations. HINT: One needs to use all of the Search Engines in this listing to retrieve maximum results)

 

DISSERTATIONS-- LITERATURE REVIEWS --IDEAS AND TUTORIALS   

from KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, USA

 

And, RESOURCES ON DOING A LITERATURE REVIEW

 

 

 

 

 

DOAJ: DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Well over 17,000 Open Access journals are covered; almost all in full-text format. More journals are added every month.

IMPORTANT: Please be sure to click the Articles option before executing a search.

Pointers for using the DOAJ

 

 

 

 

 

 

ECONOMICS DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES

(For the latest in Social Science and Economic Research, using PREPRINTS are vital)

PREPRINTS provide a truly impressive resource for Social Science, Economic and Political studies on Africa: the index and cover the very latest articles; in most cases, before actual publication:

 

 

 

 

  • SocArXiv  SocArXiv, open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.

 

  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
  • Accelerating Africa’s economic transformation - London School of Economics

          Arezki, Rabah (2021) Accelerating Africa’s economic transformation. LSE Business Review (21 Sep 2021). Blog Entry.

 

 

RELATED TOPIC: 

FINANCE: THE REAL WORLD OF FINANCEFINANCE IN REAL LIFE 

(INCLUDES ECONOMICS LESSON PLANS AS WELL)

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL THEMES, ISSUES, PRACTICES. AND POLICIES

ERIC is a free, Open Access Database indexing and covering the most important educational journals.

Most articles are available in complete full-text format.

ERIC does cover the educational issues, policies, themes, and practices in countries around the world, including African countries.

 

ERIC = EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE

 

FREE COURSES, COURSE LECTURE NOTES, VIDEO RECORDINGS OF ACTUAL CLASSES

IN THE USA are now available from TWO EDUCATIONAL POWERHOUSES:  MIT [MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY] and  

YALE UNIVERSITY:

 

MIT:  ocw.mit.edu (General Website)

 

 

OCW SCHOLAR COURSES FROM MIT:

"Discover:

Designed for anyone interested in mastering foundational subjects at the college level, OCW Scholar courses offer all the resources you need to learn independently. The courses are based on materials MIT students use in classrooms and also include special custom-created content.

The materials are arranged in logical sequences and supplemented with multimedia such as video lectures, help-session videos, and simulations.

Refresh:

OCW Scholar course modules make it easy for you to pick and choose specific topics or units within each course for you to refresh your understanding. You are welcome to download the entire course and work through the material on your computer—without having to connect online. Just note that videos are not included in the zip downloads, though you can still find them on our popular YouTube and iTunesU channels.

Grow:

OCW Scholar courses make great companions on your lifelong learning journey. Whether you are intent on calculus or chemical bonding, psychology or computer science, OCW Scholar courses make learning a fascinating adventure. You’ll be guided by the same renown instructors that MIT students study with. So go ahead and dive into these courses to extend or brush up your knowledge."

 

One example of an OCW Scholar course at MIT is PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SCIENCE

Course Features of "Principles of Chemical Science:"

Educator Features

 

 

COURSES (FREE) FROM YALE UNIVERSITY: https://oyc.yale.edu/

"Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

  • All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats
  • Registration is not required
  • No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website. However, courses for Yale College credit are offered online through Yale Summer Online including OYC professors John Rogers and Craig Wright." 

 

MORE RECENT COURSES FROM YALE UNIVERSITY may be found via COURSERA

(SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK ON SHOW ALL -- to view all of Yale's courses on COURSERA)

 

 

 

 

 

eSCHOLARSHIP REPOSITORY:

escholarship.org - Open Access Publications from the University of California --  this resource has well over 300,00 items as of September 2021

"eScholarship provides access to open access publications and research tools..." Includes articlesbookstheses, papers, conference materials, journals, and preprints, among other items.

ABOUT eSCHOLARSHIP: https://escholarship.org/aboutEschol

A sample search on Africa in eScholarship.org retrieved many valuable results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELDISSharing the best in global development research for policy and practice.

Use the built-in search engine to locate full-text publications and documents on development issues all over the world.

ELDIS reports and then catalogs the work of NGOs around the world, such as Poverty, Refugees, Property and Taxation Issues, Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, Climate Change, Diseases, Agriculture, Environmental Issues, Corruption, Girl and Women's Empowerment, among other key topics.

KEY ISSUES COVERED IN ELDIS: https://www.eldis.org/keyissuesandcollections

 

 

 

 

 

ENGINEERING

(Covers research by African researchers, as well as research on the African continent)

For example, this link might be of interest to researchers: https://network.bepress.com/explore/engineering/?q=Africa

Two sample articles of potential interest to researchers are these:

Socio-ecological Analysis of Artisanal Gold Mining in West Africa: A Case study of Ghana.

and

Access to Education in Africa via Satellite

 

Included in the above  ENGINEERING RESEARCH WEBSITE is newly offered access to the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers:

Access South Africa’s Leading Research Journal’s Entire Collection: the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) Articles going back to 1909 are now in IEEE Xplore: details here and here and here

 

 

 

Biomedical Engineering for Africa

 

 

 

ESL: TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES

(Includes Writing and Composition and free ESL Books, ready to download)

 

(bit.ly/ESLTEA1)

 

ESL/EFL: Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World

Introduction

Text (PDF)

Appendix, Additional Handouts

Text (PDF)

E-Book Formats

Text (EPUB)Text (MOBI)

 

 

 

A FREE LITERACY PACK FOR ESL/EFL LEARNERS & TEACHERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

F1000 RESEARCH

("F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.") From the About section of the website.

 

 

F1000 RESEARCH GATEWAYS (including Agriculture, Food and Nutrition; Emerging Diseases and Outbreaks; Genome Sequencing, among many other subjects)

F1000 Research Gateways provides a link to "Submit your Research"

 

 

 

 

 

 

FILM/CINEMA RESEARCH - Updated for 2022/2023

(Free scholarly resources for research on Film / Cinema)

 

 

 

 

 

FOLKLORE:

 

FOLKTALES OF MAYOTTE: AN AFRICAN ISLAND

"The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island.

Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.

The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring’s account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales.

He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte’s system of the arts of the word.

Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book."

 

A REVIEW OF FOLKTALES OF MAYOTTE

 

 

AN IMPORTANT HINT:

TO LOCATE FREE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON ALL ASPECTS OF FOLKLORE, PLEASE SEARCH THESE THREE FREE (and excellent) SCHOLARLY DATABASES:

GRAFT -and- INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR -and- CORE  

as well as the OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY for current textbooks on the subject.

 

A SEARCH ENGINE FOR LOCATING FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS CAN BE FOUND HERE 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FREE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS

 (for African Diplomats, Students, and Business Men/Women learning/studying a new language)

 

 

 

 


FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS: A RESOURCE LIST

 

 

STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS: A NEW SEARCH ENGINE THAT SEARCHES FOR FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE:   https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT   

(Created by the 2022 Fulbright Teacher-Scholars hosted by the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville;   the F proudly stands for FULBRIGHT.)

 

 

 

 

 

FOR FULBRIGHTERS AND FULBRIGHT CANDIDATES:

FREE AND ESSENTIAL RESOURCES FOR YOUR SUCCESS

(These free resources will also be useful for Applicants to the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders)

 

FOR THOSE WRITING APPLICATIONS OR a PERSUASIVE ESSAY: THE BELOW --FREELY AVAILABLE-- WRITING TEXTBOOK -with  ADVICE and ACTUAL WRITING SAMPLES-  WILL BE VERY USEFUL:

SUPPLEMENTAL TIPS AND EXPERT ADVICE FROM A NEW TEXTBOOK ON WRITING   (from APPENDIX E: LINKS TO SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES

APPENDIX E is found in this freely downloadable academic textbook on Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago titled: Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources

My suggestion is first to download this free textbook, then once downloaded, navigate to APPENDIX E for several other valuable research hints, tips and tricks, and sample essays; all the links within APPENDIX E with then be "clickable."

The entire textbook is excellent, and if students have time, the entire textbook should be perused.

ALL EXAMPLES and EXPLANATIONS  THROUGHOUT THIS FREE TEXTBOOK ARE OUTSTANDING,  AND WILL HELP ALL WRITERS HONE THEIR CRAFT.

Other Writing Textbooks may be found here

 

 

 

 

 

GOOGLE PRODUCTS: TIPS FOR USING EFFICIENTLY

 

 

 

 

 

GOOGLE SCHOLAR: INSTRUCTIONS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE USE:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR:

 

-- GOOGLE SCHOLAR: HOW TO REFINE YOUR SEARCHES A HOW-TO VIDEO

 

----A Guide to using GOOGLE SCHOLAR effectively from the UCLA WRITING CENTER:

 Using Google Scholar; "Discover useful features of Google Scholar to help you find exactly what you're looking for."

 

----A 3rd useful guide to searching Google Scholar is from a Library Research Guide for Physics: Searching Google Scholar

 

---  Key Features of Google Scholar -- includes how to do Patent Searches in Google Scholar

(from the FreeTech4Teachers website, published on July 31, 2021)

 

---  How to Use Google Scholar to Find Federal and State Court Rulings

 

--- Finding an Article in Google Scholar (a Google Drive document)

 

--- A Google Scholar Trick: Search within citing articles in Google Scholar (from Musingsabout Librarianship.blogspot.com) (This Blog post comes courtesy of Aaron Tay -- currently Library Analytics Manager, Singapore Management University. His experience also includes E-services Faciliator, Senior Librarian at the National University of Singapore Libraries. My thanks to Mr. Tay.)

 

---   An explanation of GOOGLE SCHOLAR (noting weaknesses and strengths)

from an Iowa State University Textbook on Library Research and Information Literacy (from LIBRARY 160   

 

 

 

GOOGLE SEARCH TIPS  and  NEW GOOGLE SEARCH TOOLS

(from the FREETECH4TEACHERS Website)

 

 

 

 

GRAFT: ONE OF THE BEST OPEN ACCESS DATABASES SO FAR -- I USE THIS DATABASE DAILY

The Creator of JURN has also created another incredible search engine covering numerous academic repositories:

GRAFT: http://bit.ly/2TBOyvF

from the Creator of JURN:

"GRAFT, my beta ‘all known repositories’ search-engine is still accessible, again via the Google-hosted version… 

GRAFT : a repository searchsearching across full-text and records alike."

(MY PERSONAL NOTE:  I've used this new search engine and find it absolutely remarkable for finding documents and research

I simply could not uncover with Google Scholar.

This new search engine covers numerous academic repositories, as well as retrieving select dissertations and master's theses.)

You will see a tiny blank search engine at the top left -- use this to search any topic of interest.

Try a sample search: Covid and South Africa  (as one very simple example)

 

 

 

 

 

HISTORY -- see AFRICAN HISTORY 

 

 

 

 

 

HIV AIDS

 

 

 

 

 

IMMIGRATION

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION LITERACY   AND   TIPS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS

 

 

 

 

 

 

The INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR - searches over 25 million articles and counting!

--A video overview of Internet Archive Scholar

-- A Review of The Internet Archive Scholar in College and Research Libraries News (6/2021) - may be found here 

Formulas for searching this new, free database:

Searching the topic of Institutional Repositories in the Internet Archive Scholar:

"title" Institutional Repositories year:>2015 

this performs a title search for the concept of Institutional Repositories for materials published after 2015 --

 

Another Example: "title" PAUL ROBESON type: article-journal year:>1965 (this searches for Journal articles about the Singer and Civil Rights Activist, Paul Robeson, after the year 1965, where Paul Robeson appears in the title of the article)

Feel free to use this basic formula for other searches you may wish to try in this free, open access database

 

YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE:

"title" CHINATOWN type: article-journal year:>1973 and Film (this formula retrieves articles on the 1974 movie CHINATOWN, where CHINATOWN appears in the title of articles. ("Chinatown" starred Jack Nicholson as a detective who thinks he has seen everything, and Faye Dunaway who harbors a lurid, truly sordid secret that animates the film's plot.)

 

ONE MORE SEARCH EXAMPLE: To find articles on OER in the Internet Archive Scholar, where the term OER must appear in the

titles of articles for the years 2019 and after,  try this search:  

"title" OER type: article-journal year:>2019

(OER = OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES)

 

In the Internet Archive Scholar, one can also just search for a topic or name directly, e.g. Kwame Nkrumah

Please note: The Internet Archive Scholar is one of the very best of the new free Open Access Search Engines.

 

 

 

 

 

JSTOR -- OPEN JSTOR -- OA and FREE  

see OPEN J-STOR  below for a description of this database and a sample search

 

 

 

 

 

JURN:

JURN: An OPEN ACCESS DATABASE THAT SEARCHES JOURNAL ARTICLES, THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

http://bit.ly/2PRyfwB

LIST OF JOURNALS INDEXED BY JURN:

https://jurnsearch.wordpress.com/directory/

The Creator of JURN has also created another search engine:  http://bit.ly/2TBOyvF

from the Creator of JURN: "GRAFT, my beta ‘all known repositories’ search-engine is still accessible, again via the

Google-hosted version…  GRAFT : a repository searchsearching across full-text and records alike."

In the Graft database, a sample search on the following topic reveals the surprising depth of this new and hugely impressive and powerful database:

Climate Change Deforestation Carbon

 

 

 

 

 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVERY, EMANCIPATION, and the SLAVE TRADE  

 

(Extensive Library of Congress collections paint a picture of enslaved Africans in America through Oral Interviews and Digitized Papers and Collections.)

Resources also come from the following impressive digitized collections:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • OPINIONS REGARDING SLAVERY (SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY) "The Opinions Regarding Slavery: Slave Narrative collection consists of an original manuscript collection compiled by John Brother Cade, Sr., who was the Dean of Southern University. The slave narrative collection is arranged by series. The collection consists of 229 reports of ex-slaves from 17 states and 1 country and measures 1.29 linear feet. The first series is the state of Alabama, which consists of 11 ex-slave reports. Series II, the state of Arkansas, with 4 ex-slave reports...   

 

 

  • CLOTILDA, SLAVE SHIP ("The schooner Clotilda was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859 or July 9, 1860, with 110–160 slaves." -- via WIKIPEDIA)

 

 

  • A NEW BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON THE CLOTILDA SURVIVORS FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO RESEARCH THIS TOPIC IS: The Survivors of the Clotilda, by Hannah Durkin (Amistad).

  • PRECIS OF THIS BOOK FOLLOWS: 

 

          The last known slave ship to reach U.S. soil, the Clotilda, arrived in           1860, more than fifty years after the transatlantic slave trade was           federally  outlawed. This history details the lives of the people it           carried, from their kidnappings in West Africa to their deaths in the           twentieth century.  Durkin, a scholar of slavery and the African           diaspora, traces them to communities in Alabama established by the           formerly enslaved, such as Africatown and Gee’s Bend, and finds in           their stories antecedents for the Harlem Renaissance and the           civil- rights movement. "

 

 

  • The African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter  publishes scholarly articles on enslaved Africans, and the civilization and remnants of daily life they left behind in the Americas; also includes political and economics studies on Africa, as well as Diaspora studies in general.

 

 

  • Freedom on the Move, "a digital collection housed at Cornell University of thousands of ads by enslavers and jailers seeking the return of self-liberating people, printed in American newspapers before emancipation."

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

        .JUNETEENTH RESOURCES

 

 

 

  • VISUALIZING EMANCIPATION from the UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, VA. " "Visualizing Emancipation is a map of slavery’s end during the American Civil War. It finds patterns in the collapse of southern slavery, mapping the interactions between federal policies, armies in the field, and the actions of enslaved men and women on countless farms and city blocks. It encourages scholars, students, and the public to examine the wartime end of slavery in place, allowing a rigorously geographic perspective on emancipation in the United States."

 

        . Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved         People

         (Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade brings together datasets from multiple sources the JSTOR website

 

 

 

      . UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND RACE AND RACISM PROJECT

      (Numerous resources on Africans and African-Americans -- these are valuable historical, archival resources)

 

 

PLEASE NOTEThis collection of online resources on Slavery from the Library of Congress and other University Research Centers, including digital archival collections, is hardly comprehensive; rather, it merely hints at the richness and the wealth of digitized resources available to students and scholars on Slavery, and the story of enslaved Africans.

 

 

 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCES: A GENERAL LISTING

 

 

 

 

LITERACY PACK FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF ESL/EFL

 

(ALSO SEE INFORMATION LITERACY  and TIPS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS above)

 

 

NEW! ESL WEBSITE

 

 

 

 

 

 

LITERATURE:

An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution

Funded by the University System of Georgia’s “Affordable Learning Georgia” initiative, An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies.

This open textbook is developed as a result of a Round 17 Mini-Grant.

FULL-TEXT WORD DOCUMENT HERE: 867193b8bd35f9d223d483190e62e130.docx

 

 

LITERATURE:

African Literature From the Oral Tradition to Current Trends

African_Literature_From_Oral_Tradition_To_Current_Trends_D_TRAORE.pdf

 

 

Selected African Literature & Theater Sources (University of Illinois Libraries)

 

 

The Past, Present and Future of African Literature today (UM-Flint)

 

 

AFRICAN LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET

(COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY)

 

 

Africa: Revealed Through Literature: Novels & Short Stories

 

 

Exploring Africa:  A brief background and history of African literature

 

 

A Research Guide for African Studies from Yale University Libraries: AFRICAN LITERATURE

 

 

LITERATURE:

Africa (for non-English African literatures, see Literature (Other than English): African)

General Resources in African Literature:     

 

African Literature Resources (links to interviews and information about critical journals) (Karen Fung) -- Stanford University Libraries

 

Edward Wilmot Blyden Virtual Museum

 

 

 

An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution

Publisher: University System of Georgia

"Funded by the University System of Georgia’s “Affordable Learning Georgia” initiative, An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies."

 

 

 

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures:

"This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity.

Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time.

The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War."

 

 

 

THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS by W.E.B. Du Bois 

(The complete text of this classic text is courtesy of Ryerson University, Toronto)

"This 100th Anniversary edition of Du Bois's most widely read book offers significant updates and advantages over all other editions of this classic of African American history. A new Introduction by Manning Marable, Du Bois biographer and eminent historian, puts The Souls of Black Folk into context for 21st Century readers and recounts Du Bois's life-long relationship with his text, which Du Bois continued to rework over many decades.

A rarely seen 1953 Re-Introduction by Du Bois is included in this edition, as are the many corrections and changes Du Bois made to the original text during this era.

Finally, an explication of the Du Bois text in the new Foreword by Charles Lemert helps the reader better understand the book's historical and current relevance, as does the afterword by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes reflecting on Du Bois's influence on feminism."

 

 

 

AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (from the City University of New York)

"African American Literature, is a survey course that will take us from the early days of enslavement to the present.  We will read, analyze, and discuss literary texts written by African Americans, paying particular attention to the political, historical and social context that informs these texts."

 

 

 

LITERATURE:

Postcolonial Studies @ Emory

 

 

Postcolonial Space

 

 

Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies -- from    --

one of the best of the new OER sites:

         Sub-disciplines (4)

         Works (19)

        Authors (27)

 

 

 

MORE ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES

 

 

 

WASAFIRI: INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY WRITING, SHOWCASING EMERGING AFRICAN, ASIAN AND CARIBBEAN AUTHORS, AS WELL AS AUTHORS FROM THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT

 

 

 

IMPORTANT LITERARY HINT:

FOR FREE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ON ALL ASPECTS OF AFRICAN LITERATURE AND AFRICAN WRITERS, PLEASE SEARCH THESE TWO FREE SCHOLARLY DATABASES:

GRAFT - and- INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR --   

as well as free downloadable textbooks available through the OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY

 

 

A NEW SEARCH ENGINE COVERING FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL ACADEMIC AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE AT:  https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT

(Created by Fulbrighters)

 

 

 

 

MATHEMATICS: offers free textbooks in all areas of Mathematics, plus free tutorials, and calculators

 

 

Calculators for Math and Sciences,

 

 

 

 

MEDICINE, MEDICAL ISSUES, AND GLOBAL HEALTHPLEASE SEE PMC: PUB MED CENTRAL (Below)

 

 

 

MEDICINE, RELIGION and POLITICS in AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

(A free course from MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

 

Medical Devices Innovation for Africa: enabling industrialisation | UCT Libraries

 

 

VIDEO LECTURES ON HEALTH SCIENCES AND PUBLIC HEALTH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at IRVINE 

 

VIDEO LECTURES ON MEDICINE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at IRVINE


 

Health Sciences Research Skills (from Rutgers University Libraries)

 

 

CANCER RESOURCES (from the 1440 website)

(:A curation of the best brain-stimulating content on the internet")

 

 

PUBLIC HEALTH 

 

 

*** FREE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS

 

**** A NEW SEARCH ENGINE NOW LOCATES FREE ACADEMIC TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS:   

https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT   (Created by the 2022 Fulbright Class at a leading University in the U.S.)

 

 

 

OAISTER: FOR DISCOVERING HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS/ DOCUMENTS

One also has the option of searching WorldCat using OAISTER's  Advanced Search option

Try this Search in OAISTER:

Type GOLD COAST AFRICA MAPS using the Advanced Search option -- please type this search phrase in the Keyword (KW:) field

In the Format field in the Advanced Search mode, choose Map using the down arrow, then hit enter

In the left margin, you will see an option to refine your search using Open Access (while still in the Advanced Search mode)

The Open Access option will retrieve sources that are freely available to anyone.

OAISTER is superb for historical and archival material -- of great value to historians or genealogists.

 

 

 

 

 

Open Access Books in African Studies, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy

(Northwestern University Press)

 

 

AFRICAN STUDIES BOOKS FROM NORTHWESTERN

 

 

OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS from the UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

 

 

 

 

OPEN ACCESS FOR AFRICA (OAA)

"Cognizant of the challenges faced by students and health workers in developing countries, this site aspires to break the barriers that hamper access to credible scholarly information. 

OAA offers a succinct orientation on how to optimize online searching and provides links to Open Access Journals, Lectures & Clinical skills, eBooks and Databases.

Additionally, the incorporated OAA Search Engine optimizes your search by yielding results from credible websites with Open Access provisions."

INCLUDES:

 

 

 

 

 

OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY -- CLOSE TO 1,000 TEXTBOOKS IN MOST SUBJECT AREAS

This site is searchable, with new books being added monthly. Includes a separate listing of New Books just added.

An example of a recent textbook is:

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78374-752-8  

To download this book please click here

"Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa."

 

 

A NEW SEARCH ENGINE SPECIALIZING IN SEARCHING FOR FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE:    https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT   

(Created by the 2022 Fulbright Teacher-Scholars hosted by the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville;

the F proudly stands for FULBRIGHT.)

 

 

 

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: Producing Open Educational Resources From Scratch: The Case Of Health Sciences At University Of Ghana And Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology 

Omollo, Kathleen Ludewig; Rahman, Adam; Yebuah, Chris (Commonwealth of Learning, 2012-06)

This chapter looks at the production and promotion of health open educational resources (OER) at the University of Ghana (UG) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Both institutions initially chose to produce materials from...

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Online Knowledge Portals for Development in Africa: scoping study

"The Global Open Knowledge Hub (GOKH) programme, implemented by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in collaboration with a range of partners, aims to build a global open knowledge platform for open data sharing and exchange on a broad range of development issues."

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPEN J-STOR: https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/
“Our partnerships with libraries and publishers help us make content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide.”

OPEN J-STOR INSTRUCTIONS:

Click on Advanced Search, https://www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch,

and in the first Search Bar, type (as an example) Environment* (* searches for all variations of the word Environment, such as Environmental)

and then to your right, click on the down arrow and select the Title Field.

In the Second Search Bartype Ghana and then click on the down arrow and select All Fields.

Under Select an Access Type, be sure to click on the down arrow and select “Content I can accessto ensure you retrieve free, Open Access articles then click the Search bar.

 

 

 

PMC and MEDICINE, MEDICAL RESOURCES, GLOBAL HEALTH:

 

 

MEDICINE, HEALTH, NURSING, ANATOMY, AND ALLIED FIELDS IN HEALTH, and PUBLIC HEALTH

 

 

PMC: PUB MED CENTRAL - extremely important for research in the fields of Medicine, Medical Sciences, Public Health, and Global Public Health

The Advanced Search feature for PMC  is available here:  

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/advanced

 

PUBMEDHOW TO USE  (includes how to evaluate online Health Information)

 

PUBMED MEDICAL DATABASE, PUBMED: TUTORIAL OF HOW TO USE PUBMED FOR NURSES and HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, including those interested in Public Health and Global Public Health.

 

HOW TO USE THE PUBMED CENTRAL DATABASE (a LIBGUIDE from the U. of Massachusetts at Lowell)

 

MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?

(from NLM, the National Library of Medicine)

 

Searching for Articles in PUBMED (a Tutorial from Northeastern Univ.) includes:

 

Step by step instructions for setting up Search Alerts in PubMed:

Keeping up with the conversation: Setting up alerts for new research publications

Step by step instructions for setting up search alerts and publication alerts in PubMed as well as setting up publication alerts in BrowZine, JournalToCs, and Web of Science.

 

RELATED:

EVALUATING HEALTH INFORMATION ONLINE

 

4 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE GOOGLING HEALTH ISSUES

 

MEDICAL LINKS:  include FREE Open courses in a variety of Public Health fields from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH OCW)   JHSPH OCW = free courses and resources from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

 

 

NUTRITION

 

 

PUBLIC HEALTH -- includes HEALTH LITERACY and Refugee Health

 

PUBMED: HOW TO USE

(includes how to evaluate online Health Information)

 

ALSO:

HOW TO USE PUB MED CENTRAL (PMC) MEDLINE: PMC IS ONE OF THE BEST FREE OPEN ACCESS MEDICAL DATABASES.

 

RELATED:

A COMMUNITY TOOLKIT FOR ADDRESSING HEALTH MISINFORMATION

"The Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation provides specific guidance to individuals, health care professionals and administrators, teachers, school administrators, librarians, and faith leaders to understand, identify, and stop the spread of health misinformation in their communities."

 

RELATED:

Tutorials in Health Sciences Research Skills (from Rutgers University Libraries)

AND:           

Searching the Literature: A Guide to Comprehensive Searching in the Health Sciences 

(U TORONTO)

 

ADDITIONAL MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESOURCES AVAILABLE HERE

 

 

FREE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS

 

 

 

 

 

PODCASTS

 

 

 

 

 

POLITICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

For resources on Politics and Political Science as they relate to the African continent, please use these free resources:

 

OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY-- for current textbooks

 

 

THINK TANK AND POLICY ISSUES: created by the HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES:

indexes articles / documents on the positions Think Tanks take on the pressing issues of the day - along with their ideas on potential solutions-- this database is very internationally focused, so is outstanding choice for students of Economics, Political Science, International Relations, and the Social Sciences in general.   Created by the Harvard University Libraries.

 

Also use the SSRN Database -- one does need to register to use the Database, but the registration process is free and is similar to creating a new Facebook Account. The SSRN Database is described towards the end of this website.

 

UNIQUE SEARCH ENGINES FOR DISSERTATIONS AND THESES (HOW TO FIND THE COMPLETE, FULL TEXT OF MANY RECENT DISSERTATIONS)

 

TO EXPLORE A VALUABLE AVENUE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, PLEASE REFER TO PREPRINTS BELOW: PREPRINTS OFFER THE MOST CURRENT ARTICLES:

 

 

 

 

PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINES TO ACCESS THE MOST CURRENT RESEARCH

 

A PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE IS AVAILABLE HERE

 

Many additional Preprint Search Engines are found in this article, appearing in College and Research Libraries News (October 2019)

Discovery and scholarly communication aspects of preprints: Sources for online information

 

FINDING AND SEARCHING FOR PREPRINTS

 

SEARCH OSF PREPRINTS  (A PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE TO LOCATE  PREPRINTS IN ALL FIELDS -- INCLUDING RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES)

   

PREPRINT FAQs

 

Preprints, Science and the News Cycle (JSTOR)

 

The importance of a preprint repository

By: Praveen Chaddah, Current Science, Vol. 111, No. 6 (25 September 2016), pp. 979-980

 

SEARCHING FOR COVID-19 INFORMATION USING PREPRINTS

 

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND ARTICLES ABOUT PREPRINTS

 

 

 

 

RELIGION

 

TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGIONS: A LIBGUIDE FROM THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER, ROBERT W. WOODRUFF LIBRARY

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH SKILLS TUTORIALS, INCLUDING INFORMATION LITERACY TUTORIALS

 

 

 

 

 

Southern African Development Community (SADC): Home

SADC THEMES include the following : https://www.sadc.int/themes/ 

 

SADC Vision 2050

 

Scholarly articles on the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

 

Scholarly articles on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) from the new GRAFT Search Engine

(type SADC in the blank search engine found on the top left)

 

(NOTE FOR RESEARCHERS: THE GRAFT SEARCH ENGINE -- can be used to search any topic)

 

 

 

SCIENCE:

 

 

GENERAL SCIENCE RESOURCES

 

 

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: AN OPEN TEXTBOOK 

("This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book shows that scientifically grounded knowledge is required and helpful in understanding intellectual and political positions in various discussions on the grand challenges of our time and how science makes impact on society.")

 

 

 

Science, Technology & Innovation and Intellectual Property: Leveraging Openness for Sustainable Development in Africa   PDF [1664]

 

 

 

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS: DEVOTED TO THE LATEST ADVANCES AND INNOVATIONS IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

 

 

Science Stories Africa

Science -- AFRICA

sciencestoriesafrica.com

"Science Stories Africa seeks to bolster public engagement and appreciation of science in Africa by giving innovators a platform to tell their stories to the public. Through the initiative, research scientists receive training in storytelling and then have the opportunity to share their stories in front of a live audience.

 

The performances are recorded and posted online.

 

For example, at an event themed "I Almost Gave Up," Misaki Wayengera of Makerere University shared his story of developing a quick, cheap, and easy diagnostic tool to detect ebola.

 

At another event, Kashub Tumwesigye of the National Agricultural Research Organisation described how a visit to Kampala's largest landfill inspired his team to create a biodegradable plastic bag made from cassava peels.

 

As of this writing, the organization has trained nine scientists and held two events, with the intention of holding three events each year.

 

The easiest way to watch the performances is on the YouTube channel, which can be accessed by clicking "Watch Now" on the page linked above.

 

The organization also posts video clips, news stories, and other content on Twitter (@sciencestories2) and Facebook (@sciencestoriesafrica).

Science Stories Africa is a project of the Cornell Alliance for Science."

 

 

 

 

 

SLAVERY and EMANCIPATION RESOURCES SEE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (above) in this website

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ONLINE

(See African History above for the complete review of this resource)

 

 

MIGRATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

"It is the main contention of this book that there is a decisive and urgent need for migration research from a southern African perspective. The chapters in this book contend that South-to-South migration will dominate migration trends, leading to an increase in migration within the Global South and to the Global South. The predominant literature on the Global South adopts theoretical and methodological scholarship rooted in South-to-North migration. While there is an emerging body of knowledge in the sociology of migration within the Global South (Landau & Bakewell, 2018; Batisai, 2017; Rugunanan, 2016), here we assert that there is a noticeable absence of theorising migration from the Global South about the Global South. We build on Segatti’s (2011) assessment that the migration literature has ignored population mobility and international migrant workers in Africa and, in particular, southern Africa."

 

 

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: For a more detailed, granular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, the Open Knowledge Repository's Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank Group) is superb.

"The Open Knowledge Repository contains the World Bank’s premium research dealing with key aspects of development in Sub-Saharan Africa. This site contains thousands of published books, journal articles, economic and sector studies, working papers, and knowledge briefs.

Some are organized into dedicated collections: Africa Development Forum , Africa’s Pulse, Africa Gender Policy Briefs .

The World Bank’s Africa Region Unit has a number of pillars of work.

 

The topical spotlights and subregional and country links below provide quick links into the research output on Sub-Saharan Africa. Project and other operational documents can be found on the Documents & Reports site."

 

From the Internet Scout Report

 

 

 

 

Built in Africa

AFRICA --- TECHNOLOGY

www.builtinafrica.io

"The language of technology can unite Africa and the African diaspora to work toward sustainable development, according to the team behind Built in Africa (BIA).

 

BIA is a platform to spotlight technology made in Africa, for Africa, as well as to connect developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and other tech disruptors in Africa and the diaspora.

 

At the top of the page linked above, readers can click on "Video" to see content highlighting projects ranging from financial and security tech, to energy and consumer electronics.

 

Readers can click on "Blog" for information on tech projects, tips for getting involved with the African tech industry, and stories from the people shaping this emerging sector.

 

Readers can sort the Blog contents by categories such as "Developers," "Designers," and "Talent Accelerators." There is also the BIA Podcast, which can be found by scrolling the homepage for links to various listening platforms.

 

Each podcast episode features a 10-15 minute conversation with a tech trailblazer.

 

The team behind BIA comes from a range of backgrounds and includes Asafu Thomas, Nathan Hastings-Spaine, Brillian Achieng, and Daniel Nutakor.

 

BIA (Built in Africa) is active on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram (@builtinafrica.io on all three), or on Twitter (@builtinafrica_)"

 

Reviewed in the Internet Scout Report for July 2021

 

 

 

 

 

The SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH NETWORK (SSRN)

"SSRN´s eLibrary provides 1,066,119 research papers from 701,821 researchers in more than 65 disciplines."

Searches well over 1 million scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers in all disciplines of the Social Sciences, including Business, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Medicine, and Public Health; 95% are downloadable in full-text format.

"SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks."

The SSRN Database also indexes hard-core medical and clinical studies, as well as hard-core social science research, such as Vaccine Research, and Social and Racial Equity.

 

PLEASE NOTE: One does need to create an account to search this database, but, this is exactly like creating a new Facebook account; please do create a login and password you can remember to be able to search this database.

 

SSRN Year-In-Review 2020 (a Youtube explanation of the SSRN Database)

("From hardcore medical clinical studies https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3696875 to more interdisciplinary analyses of the legal, political, societal, and economic fallout https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714304, you're sure to find it in SSRN's Coronavirus Hub https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/coronavirus/")

 

THE SSRN YEAR IN REVIEW FOR 2021: SSRN Year In Review 2021 (includes a separate video on how to submit a paper to SSRN)

 

(SSRN is one of my favorite Open Access Databases; it is powerful and truly impressive and covers many fields outside of the traditional Social Sciences.)

 

 

 

 

 

TEXTBOOKS: ALL FREE (hosted by the U. of Minnesota)

 

Additional Free Textbooks provided by this link

 

 

A NEW SEARCH ENGINE  SPECIALIZING IN SEARCHING FOR FREE TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS IS NOW AVAILABLE:    https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT  

 (Created by Stephen Perry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)

 

 

FREE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

THESES and DISSERTATIONS (HOW TO FIND THE COMPLETE, FULL TEXT OF MANY RECENT OPEN ACCESS DISSERTATIONS)

 

 

 

 

 

A NEW THINK TANK AND POLICY SEARCH ENGINE CREATED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES:  https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hks/think_tank_search

COVERS ALL AREAS OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING AFRICA. (THIS IS A SOPHISTICATED AND POWERFUL SEARCH ENGINE: This Search Engine now covers over 1200 Think Tanks and Research Centers not just in the U.S., but also worldwide, and is a very powerful research tool for students of International Relations and Political Science.)

 

From the Harvard University Libraries Website:

"Think Tank Search searches the websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs,) and businesses. Inclusion is based upon the relevancy of subject area to coursework and scholarship, the availability of the think tank’s research in full-text on the website, and the think tank’s reputation and influence upon policy making.  

The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks."

 

EXAMPLE OF A SEARCH:

Type AFRICA and AGRICULTURE (as one very simple example) to see a variety of analyses, publications and thought pieces from NGOs and Think Tanks. Some of these will note alternative policies; some will agree with the current policies; others will disagree and propose new ways of thinking and action. 

 

Another search such as Climate Change and Nigeria or Youth Unemployment in Africa will reveal many items of interest.

 

This Search Engine is truly fantastic for all Social Science, Economics, History, Political Science or Science/STEM or Agricultural researchers who are looking to research how NGOs and Think Tanks analyze and discuss any particular policy or issue or theme or topic, whether domestic or worldwide. 

 

Harvard's Think Tank Search Engine is invaluable for researching how Scholars, NGOs, and Think Tanks are thinking and then writing about the political/social/religious/economic/demographic ("youth bulge") issues, plus the status of women and minorities in Africa, Asia, or Latin America.

You can also narrow your search to specific countries anywhere in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

USAID's COMMITTMENT TO AFRICA -- PARTNERSHIPS ESTABLISHED, PLUS CURRENT PROGRAMS

 

 

 

 

U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE (USIP): AFRICA PROGRAMS

 

 

 

U.S.INSTITUTE OF PEACE (USIP) ISSUE AREAS

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL SEARCH ENGINES:

 

 

  • MOM = Mason OER MetaFinder

 

The "MOM" Search Engine is available here  ( https://mom.gmu.edu)

GMU = George Mason University

 

The "MOM" Search Engine searches the following collections:

 

 

AND:

 

 

 

 

 

        Try the Search: "GHANA AGRICULTURE CLIMATE CHANGE" -- without the quotes

 

 

 

  • The INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR -  searches over 25 million articles and counting!

  • --A video overview of Internet Archive Scholar
  • -- A Review of The Internet Archive Scholar in College and Research Libraries News (6/2021) - may be found here 
  • Formulas for searching this new, free database:
  • Searching the topic of Institutional Repositories in the Internet Archive Scholar:
  • "title" Institutional Repositories year:>2015 
  • this performs a title search for the concept of Institutional Repositories for materials published after 2015 --
  • Yet another Example: "title" PAUL ROBESON type: article-journal year:>1965 (this searches for Journal articles about the Singer and Civil Rights Activist, Paul Robeson, after the year 1965, where Paul Robeson appears in the title of the article)
  • Feel free to use these basic formulas for other searches in the Internet Archive Scholar you may wish to try in this free database.
  • One can also just search for a name, as in KWAME NKRUMAH.

 

 

 

 

 

EXAMPLE: a new Open Access (OA) Ph.D Dissertation:

Examining the Social Distance Between Africans and African Americans: The Role of Internalized Racism by Adaobi C. Iheduru, Wright State University 

(found through a new, Open Access Dissertation Search Engine-- freely available to all)

 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE:

Many other free scholarly Databases and New Generation Search Engines, particularly useful for researching issues and themes relevant to the African continent, are provided in this document, available to anyone, anywhere:

TAMALEFREE  and a new website:  OAD112  

 

OAD = OPEN ACCESS DATABASES

 

OPEN ACCESS = FREE (free to everyone, everywhere)

 

 

It is my sincere hope that African Researchers and Scientists -- and those students and scholars interested in the African continent -- will find the above free scholarly databases and new search engines to be useful in their own research.

 

 

OF RELATED INTEREST:

 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

(includes: a current Libguide on Black Lives Matter, African-American History and Literature,

Anti-Racism websites, Juneteenth Resources, Music and the Civil Rights Movement,

among many other topics. This website has recently been updated with new academic resources.)

 

RELATED TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH:

 

a) STEAM CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH (2023)

 

b):

11 Famous African-American Mathematicians
Black Heroes of Mathematics
A Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics​

 

 

c) EVERGREEN

(FREE RESOURCES IN MANY SUBJECT AREAS; including BRAND NEW RESOURCES FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH)

 

 

d) The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated

(from DAILY JSTOR)

 

e:)

The Soul of Black Identity: Artist Interviews of the Post-Soul Era

This collection presents more than 75 interviews in which leading figures in music, theater, film and television, dance, literature, comedy, and the visual arts discuss their careers and identities as Black artists.

From the U.S. Library of Congress -- the Nation's Library -- preserving History for us all.

 

 

f) BLACK HISTORY MONTH LESSON PLANS

 

 

g) READINGS ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH FROM DAILY JSTOR

 

 

h) COURSE MATERIALS, LECTURE NOTES, POWERPOINTS ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY FROM THE FACULTY AT THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE, USA

(a free, Open Access Resource)

 

 

i) RELATED: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE (from the City University of New York)

"African American Literature, is a survey course that will take us from the early days of enslavement to the present.  We will read, analyze, and discuss literary texts written by African Americans, paying particular attention to the political, historical and social context that informs these texts."

 

 

j) COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ANTI-RACISM STATEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

(Universities in the USA and Canada, IMHO, should publish similar bold statements, geared towards the specific circumstances found on their campuses)

 

k) RELATED: UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND RACE AND RACISM PROJECT

(Look under the RESOURCES TAB at the very top of the Website or the SUBJECTS LIST TAB)

 

 

l) Open Access Books in African Studies, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy (Northwestern University Press)

 

 

m) Reparations For Slavery And Colonization: Contemporary Movements For Justice

"This class from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) brings anthropological concepts to bear on contemporary movements for justice for harms committed during European colonization in Africa. Over the course of the semester, we use critical readings on topics such as violence, human rights discourse, narrating and measuring harm, memory, and group identity formation to reflect on and contribute to the work of two groups of practitioners currently engaged in claims for justice and reparations for European colonialism in Africa: in Algeria (France), and in the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda respectively (Belgium.)"

from the Preface 

 

 

A larger collection of Northwestern University Press Books in Literary Criticism and Philosophy

 

 

  

A FREE CLASSROOM HANDOUT FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ON NEW ACCESS POINTS FOR SCHOLARSHIP VIA OPEN ACCESS DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES:

FREE DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES SILC 2022   

 

 

  

CONTINUE YOUR RESEARCH WITH VITAL LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES:

For current Faculty, Staff, and currently-enrolled students at a U.S. University, please also use the Subscription Databases available from your University Libraries--

Databases such as JSTOR, PROQUEST, WEB OF SCIENCE, ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE, HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS, eBOOK CENTRAL, and the MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY are all excellent resources.

(The MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY is an especially rich resource for African Literature, African Languages and Linguistics, African Cinema, African Folklore, among many other topics.)  

 

And, of course, University Libraries offer many other subscription databases that will prove to be very useful, and extraordinarily powerful for your specific research and writing projects.

 

Please do contact the appropriate Subject Librarian at your University Library for further guidance and advice.

 

 

 

TO FIND FREE TEXTBOOKS, PLEASE CONSULT THIS LINK (includes Free Textbooks in most subject areas)

 

 

A NEW SEARCH ENGINE NOW LOCATES FREE ACADEMIC TEXTBOOKS IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS:  https://bit.ly/FTEATEXT   (This Search Engine was created by Stephen Perry)

 

 

 

A FREE HANDOUT FOR RESEARCHERS, STUDENTS, AND SCHOLARS: YOU MAY SHARE THIS HANDOUT IN WORKSHOPS AND CLASSROOMS.

 

 

 

 

SILCFREE

 

 

 

 

FREE ACADEMIC RESOURCES: HOW OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES HELP STUDENTS:

FREE ACADEMIC OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES: A RESEARCH and TEACHING GUIDE FOR YOUR STUDENTS   (latest updates)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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