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Description		Africa-Wide: NiPAD incorporates the information from a variety of smaller databases and covers African and South African studies using information from Africa, Europe and the United States. The subject areas covered include politics, history, economics, business, mining, natural sciences, environment, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music, tourism, and many more. The African Databases included within this database are: Africa Book Centre Africa Institute Database (1981 to current) African Books Collective African Development Database African Journals OnLine African Periodicals Exhibit (APEX) African Studies Abstracts (19th century to current) Afro-Tropical Bird Information Retrieval Database (20th century to current) Bibliography on Contemporary African Politics and Development (1981 to 1992) Campbell Collections of the University of Natal, Killie Campbell Africana Library Bibliography (19th Century to current) Database of Swiss Theses and Dissertation (1897 to current) Don Africana Collection (16th Century to current) IBISCUS (1970 to 2001) International Library of African Music (ILAM) Media Africa NAMLIT (19th century to current) Natural & Cultural Heritage of Africa (NATCHA) (1960-current) Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA)-BIDOC current catalogue Nordic Africa Institute Online Catalogue (NOAK) (19th century to current) School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue: Africa (1989 to current) Southern African Database (Sardius) (1961 to 1997) The South African Databases included are: Centre for Rural Legal Studies Database (1987 and earlier to current) Index to South African Periodicals (1987 to current) KnipKat National English Literary Museum (1990 to current) NEXUS Political Information and Monitoring Service Database (PIMS) South African Legal Abbreviations South African National Bibliography (1988 to current) Witwatersrand University Management Research Reports (1970 to current)
Dates covered		Varies; see description above.
Updating frequency		Quarterly.
Sources		Books, journals, current research, popular magazines, reviews, radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, pamphlets, government publications, maps, reports, theses and dissertations, and music recordings.
Type of coverage		Bibliographic database with selected abstracts.
Print Counterpart or related resources		None.
Provider		Producer or content provider: National Information Services Corporation NISC USA
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