L&S 150: Global Society & Cultural Change: NGOs & the Response to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Finds materials related to your topic including books, government publications, and audio and video recordings in the libraries of UC Berkeley. OskiCat will show you the location and availability of the items that we own.  Does not include Law Library holdings.

Melvyl
Locates titles found at other campuses in the UC system. Melvyl also allows you to expand your search to libraries worldwide. Clicking on the REQUEST button in the detailed view of a catalog record prompt you to fill out a form to request the item through our Interlibrary Loan office. Requires Proxy login for when accessing off-campus.

WorldCat on FirstSearch
Another catalog to access records of materials in libraries worldwide.  It can be used for interlibrary loan requests.  Good for advanced researchers.

• ebrary
  Database of more than 37,000 complete e-books covering 16 key subject areas including: business and economics, computers and IT, literature and linguistics, history, political science, and more. Note : for instructions on how to install the ebrary reader see Getting started with ebrary. These e-books are also listed in OskiCat and Melvyl.
  
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  1,400 online titles from the University of California Press covering a wide range of subjects. About 30% of the UC Press books, both in print and out-of-print are represented in this collection.
  

Northwestern University Library HIV/AIDS Exhibit Materials

Includes posters, textiles, and literature from African HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns.

Northwestern University Library African Poster Collection

Digitized posters including many from African HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns.

Health Behavior Change Communication Catalog

Includes HIV/AIDS prevention campaign materials from numerous countries, many African.  Collected by PSI, a Washington D.C.-based non-governmental organization.

Malwai Diffusion and Ideational Change Project

Includes survey data and secondary literature involving an HIV/AIDS research project in Malawi.

• Sociological Abstracts
  Abstracts to over 2,000 journal articles, books, and conferences.
  
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  Includes over 1000 scholarly journals (33 African Studies and 11 Health Sciences) with access to more than 2 million articles.
  
• Academic Search Complete
  A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals with full-text available for over 5300 journals.
  
• LexisNexis Academic
  Source for a number U.S. and International newspapers, and news transcripts.
  

It is possible to see links to full-text Library resources in Google Scholar search results, which helps you access items for free that you would otherwise have to pay for. To enable UC-eLinks in Scholar results from off campus or on a mobile/wireless device, take these steps:

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Online Research Guides

UCB African Studies Research Guide 

Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford)

Country Reference Sources

Africa South of the Sahara.  London: Europa Publishers.  Current year.

Doe Reference Hall DT351.A1 .A35

More Country Information Sources

• Africa-Wide NiPAD
  Abstracts and some full-text to journal articles, books, and press reports covering many aspects of African Studies. Includes many African-published sources.
  
• allAfrica.com
  Contains over 700,000 articles from 120 news publications throughout Africa. Also includes press releases and documents from 200 governments and non-governmental organizations in and outside of Africa. 30% of articles are in French.
  
• Black Studies Center (BSC)
  Includes three modules: The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience which includes interdisciplinary essays on the Black Experience; International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), a database covering some 150 scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, many of them in full text; and the full text backfile of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender (1910-1975).
  
• Quarterly Index to Africana Periodical Literature
  Indexes over 300 selected scholarly periodicals acquired regularly from 29 African countries. Also includes selected publications of non-governmental organizations, covering a wide range of topics.
  

International Organizations, Health & HIV/AIDS Research Guide

NGO Research Guide

African Government Information Research Guide

WHOLIS (World Health Organization Catalog)

Index of all WHO documents from 1948-present.

Statistical Abstracts and Yearbooks for African Countries

Most Recent Years in Doe Government Reference, Older Years in Main Stacks

HA 1900-2100, HA 4700-4900

 

• African Development Indicators (ADI)
  Detailed data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries from1961 to present. Includes data on social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
  
• World Bank e-Library
  Includes more than 1,200 full-text World Bank publications. Topics covered include: economics and finance, public policy, education, international development, technology, poverty, gender, the environment, and more.
  
• AccessUN: The Readex Index to United Nations Documents
  Indexes United Nations (UN) documents and publications including Official Records, UN journals, reports, treaties, conferences, draft resolutions, declarations, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and UN Treaty Series. Contains the full text of several thousand UN documents.
  
• PolicyFile
  Index to public policy in the areas of economics, politics, the environment, and social issues, taken from reports from a wide range of thinks tanks, Non-governmental organizations, international governmental organizations, and other institutions worldwide.
  

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Public Health Library HIV/AIDS Resources

• Global Health
  Indexes over 5,000 journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, and electronic only publications. Topics include environmental and occupational health, food safety and hygiene, infectious diseases, medical microbiology, nutrition, public health, toxicology, zoonoses, and more.
  
• PubMed
  Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system. For more guidance on using this database see the following tutorials: PubMed: Creating Alerts; Creating and RSS feed in PubMed; Importing PubMed Records to EndNote; Importing citations from PubMed to RefWorks.
  
• POPLINE
  Contains 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports related to population, family planning, and related health issues.
  
• Web of Science
  Indexes over 8,000 of the leading journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences, providing searching of footnoted citations. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. For more guidance on using this database see the following tutorials: Creating Alerts and Creating an RSS Feed.
  

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