African Politics4720

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African Politics 4720
Fall 2004 September 7, 2004

• Lora Amsberryaugier
• Government Documents/Reference Librarian
• Contact Info
• lamsberr_at_uno.edu
• 280-7276

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Current Events Newspapers
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UNO Library Homepage
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Library Subscription Databases

• LexisNexis Academic News - Newspaper articles
• Academic Search Premier - Newspaper and
  periodical articles

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African Newspaper Titles in LexisNexis

• Africa Analysis    
• Africa Energy Mining    
• Africa Energy Intelligence    
• Africa Financing Review    
• Africa News    
• Africa Research Bulletin (ARBE)    
• Africa Review World of Information    
• Africa Today    
• African Business    

• African Eye News Service    
• African Review of Business and Technology    
• Business Day (South Africa)
• East African, The    
• Financial Mail (South Africa) 
• Insider (Zimbabwe), The    
• Namibian, The    
• Nation (Kenya), The    
• Post of Zambia, The    

• Sowetan
• Sunday Times (South Africa)
• Times of Zambia    
• Zimbabwe Independent    
• Zimbabwe Standard    

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Free .com Web Resources

• All Africaallafrica.com
• World Newspapershttp//www.world-newspapers.com/a
  frica.html
• New York Times Onlinehttp//www.nytimes.com/pages
  /world/africa/index.html Look for the section on
  Africa under International news
• BBC Africahttp//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa
  /default.stm

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Annotated Listing of Newspapers
Columbia University .edu domain.

• African Studies Newspapers - Compiled by Columbia
  University Libraries.This lists online
  newspapers available without subscription.http//
  www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/newspap
  ers.html

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LexisNexis vs. Free

• L-N allows backfile access.
• L-N does not include images.
• L-N updates vary by title.
• Free web access of most current issue.
• Free may charge for backfiles.
• Free will display images included with articles.

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Background/Supplemental InformationBooks,
Journal Articles, Federal Documents, Reference
Works in Print and Country web pages
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UNO Library Online Catalog

• Online Cataloghttp//library.uno.edu
• Access to books and federal documents owned by
  the UNO Library.
• Subject searchesAfrica or specific country names
  will retrieve records of print and online
  materials available through the UNO Library.

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Library Subscription Databases

• Academic Search Premier - mostly full-text
  articles.
• PAIS - no full-text, but linked to some
  full-text.

Sample search Rwanda and genocide 856 hits
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United States Government Information

• .gov domain
• Search the UNO Library Online Catalog
• Search using google.com or google.com/unclesam

The UNO Library is a 91 Selective U.S.
Government documents depository.
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Government Sites of Interest

• Department of State - http//state.gov/
• Bureau of African Affairs - http//www.state.gov/p
  /af/
• Background Notes - http//www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bg
  n/
• CIA - Central Intelligence Agency -
  http//www.cia.gov
• World Fact Book - http//www.cia.gov/cia/publicati
  ons/factbook/

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Print Reference Material

• Europa World Year Book - most current in Ready
  Reference JN1 .E85
• The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's
  Who - most current in Ready Reference JA51 .I57
• The Statesman's Year-Book - most current in Ready
  Reference JA51 .S7
• The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native art
  Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa,
  Oceania, and Native North America - REFERENCE
  E98.A7 W49 2000
• Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara -
  REFERENCE DT351 .E53 1997
• The Cambridge encyclopedia of Africa - REFERENCE
  DT3 .C35 1981

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Country Web Sites

• Country Specific web sites
• Yahoos Directory of Country websiteshttp//dir.y
  ahoo.com/Government/Countries/
• Example 
• NigeriaWorldhttp//nigeriaworld.com/NigeriaWorld
  is a good way to find out about current events
  in the country and this region of Africa.

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Citing Sources

• UNO Library Homepage - How Do I?
• Cite my sources? - http//library.uno.edu/help/how
  /citingsources/citing.html

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Need More Help?

• Political Science Subject Specialist
• Lora Amsberryaugier
• Lamsberr_at_uno.edu
• 280-7276
• Library Room 311

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