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Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Frankfurt University
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Location
Senckenberganlage 31, German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt am Main, PO: 60486 (Germany)
Structure
Type Of RI
Virtual
Coordinating Country
Germany
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 2009
Scientific Description
The "internet library sub-saharan Africa" (ilissAfrica) offers integrated access to relevant scientific information resources on sub-Saharan Africa. ilissAfrica provides a simultaneous search of the following library catalogues: Frankfurt University Library, the African Studies Centre, Leiden/The Netherlands, the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala/Sweden and of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Mainz University. The search is combined with customised searches in these databases: Africa section of the database World Affairs Online, the Swets database "Online Contents", a database on internet resources with more than 5,000 websites on sub-Saharan Africa, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) and the Colonial Picture Archive with 50.000 digitized historical pictures of Frankfurt University Library and of Sam Cohen Library, Swakopmund/Namibia.ilissAfrica is a project of the Africa Department of the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt on the Main in cooperation with the GIGA Information Centre: Africa Library in Hamburg. It received initial funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
RI Keywords
Anthropology, International relations, Digital resources, E-humanities, Open-access, African studies, Development studies
Classifications
RI Category
Research Bibliographies
Research Libraries
Databases
Research Libraries
Databases
Scientific Domain
Social Sciences
Humanities and Arts
Humanities and Arts
Services
Personalised Web Desktop
Access to Expert Database for German Early-Career Researchers in the African Studies
Users
User Demographics
Extra-European Users - 19.0% in 2015
European Users - 21.0% in 2015
National Users - 60.0% in 2015
Collaborations
Networks
German African Studies Association
ELIAS - European Librarians in African Studies
Date of last update: 04/05/2018