Press Release: The Africa Bibliography...Goes Digital (fwd)

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Press Release

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4th February 2011, Cambridge, UK & New York, USA

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The Africa Bibliography?Goes Digital


Cambridge University Press and the International African Institute are
proud to announce the launch of the Africa Bibliography as a
fully-searchable online database. The annual Africa Bibliography, long
considered the leading bibliographic guide to all works in African
studies, has been fully digitised by the team behind the esteemed
Cambridge Journals Online platform in consultation with Africanist
librarians.

The online Africa Bibliography features full bibliographic records
comprising books, journal articles and chapters: each entry is classified
and searchable by region, country and subject. It offers a variety of
advanced search functionality including quick search, advanced Boolean,
faceted search and browse options.

The inclusion of full-text linking through CrossRef and Google Scholar
will enable users to access a source immediately simply by clicking on an
entry in the Bibliography.
In addition this crucial research tool offers multiple search export
formats compatible with a variety of citation management software tools.
This advanced functionality and the wealth of bibliographic data have been
combined to create a rich and interactive resource for all scholars in the
field.

The Africa Bibliography will initially feature digitised content from 2004
to the current volume, with further volumes back to 1984 published
subsequently. Ultimately, it will incorporate over 120,000 categorised
entries from c.900 publishers including books, individual chapters and the
relevant articles from c.1,100 serial publications. This collection of
data makes it an indispensable and invaluable tool for both researchers
and general readers alike interested in any aspect of African studies. The
reach and accessibility of the existing Africa Bibliography archive will
be expanded through this new site, making it more readily available to
students and scholars throughout the world.
?We are particularly excited to offer a fresh iteration of a perennial
research tool with our work in digitising the Africa Bibliography?
remarked Simon Ross, Journals Director of Cambridge University Press. ?It
marks the culmination of months of classification, consultation,
development and testing and we hope this will prove to be a truly unique
and indispensable research tool for scholars of African studies?

Stephanie Kitchen, Publications Committee chair at the IAI comments, 'We
are delighted about the partnership with Cambridge University Press that
has enabled this major digitisation project,  fulfilling the Institute?s
long-held ambition to adapt its major reference work and longstanding
contribution to African studies scholarship to the modern information era.
We hope the fully searchable online Africa Bibliography will henceforth be
most readily available and useful to students and scholars throughout the
world.'
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'To register for a Free 15 day trial of the Africa Bibliography or to find
out further information please visit
http://africabibliography.cambridge.org or email afb@cambridge.org

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About The International African Institute
The International African Institute (IAI) was founded in 1926 as a
scholarly institution. Over the years, it has played a pioneering role in
promoting African studies through facilitating research, scholarly
publishing about Africa, and a variety of other programmes.


About Cambridge University Press Journals
Cambridge University Press publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic
journals across a wide spread of subject areas, in print and online. Many
of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields
and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies
of research available today.

About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing division of the University of
Cambridge, one of the world?s leading research institutions and winner of
80 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge University Press is committed by its charter to
disseminate knowledge as widely as possible across the globe. It publishes
over 250 journals and over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more
than 200 countries.
Other links:

For Cambridge University Press Journals in African studies, please go to
http://journals.cambridge.org/africanstudies
For Cambridge University Press, please go to http://www.cambridge.org

For the International African Institute, please go to
http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org



Becky Roberts

Journals Marketing Executive

Journals Marketing Department
Cambridge University Press
University Printing House
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Cambridge
CB2 8BS
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 326497
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 325801
E-mail: rroberts@cambridge.org


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