African Studies Abstracts Online: number 40, 2012
Boin, M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A. van
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Boin, M., Polman, K., Sommeling, C. M., & Doorn, M. C. A. van. (2012). African Studies Abstracts Online: number 40, 2012. Leiden: African Studies Centre. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/19943
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Number 40, 2012
AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE
Number 40, 2012
Contents
Editorial policy ...iii
Geographical index ... 1
Subject index... 3
Author index ... 6
Periodicals abstracted in this issue ... 12
Abstracts ... 15
Abstracts produced by Michèle Boin, Katrien Polman,
Tineke Sommeling, Marlene C.A. Van Doorn
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African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works
on sub-Saharan Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.
New features
Following recommendations from a survey among subscribers to the ASA Online mailing list in 2008/09, various improvements have been made to ASA Online. The navigation and search facilities have been enhanced and a link to full text has been included when available.
It is now possible to navigate within ASA Online directly - from the table of contents to the corresponding page
- from an entry number in the subject and author indexes to the page where the bibliographic description and abstract can be found
- from the country name in the geographical index to the corresponding section of the abstracts and from the entry number to the page containing the bibliographic description and abstract
- from the bibliographic description via the ASCLink to the full text of an article or publication if available (subject to access restrictions)
Another new feature is the inclusion of descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus for each entry. Each descriptor is linked to a search query in the online catalogue of the ASC library.
Coverage
ASA Online covers edited works (up to 60 in each issue) and journals in the field of African studies.
Some 240 journals are systematically scanned. Just over half are English-language journals, just under a quarter are French, and the rest are German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese.
Some 40 percent of the journals are published in Africa. Newspapers and weeklies, popular magazines, current affairs bulletins, statistical digests, directories, annual reports and newsletters are not scanned.
Articles from journals published in Africa and from leading Africanist journals published outside the continent are provided with abstracts. Articles from other journals, including journals on North Africa, are catalogued and indexed without abstracts. All articles are included in the online catalogue of the ASC Library at http://opc-ascl.oclc.org/DB=3/LNG=EN/
To be selected for abstracting/indexing an article must be at least three to four pages long and have
been published in the past two years. In a few cases, an article may be excluded on the grounds of
subject if this is marginal to the ASC library's collection profile. Articles in the field of literature
dealing with only one work are normally not selected. This also applies to purely descriptive articles
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covering current political/economic developments, which could be expected to become quickly outdated. Review articles and book reviews are not covered.
Contents and arrangement
ASA Online is published four times a year. Each issue contains up to 400 entries, numbered
sequentially and arranged geographically according to the broad regions of Africa: Northeast, West, West Central, East, Southeast Central and Southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands. There is also a general section for entries whose scope extends beyond Africa, as well as sections dealing with Africa and with sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Within the regional sections, entries are arranged by country, and within each country, alphabetically according to author. Entries covering two countries appear twice, once under each country heading. Entries covering three or more countries are generally classified under the relevant regional heading.
Each entry provides a bibliographic description together with English-language descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus and an abstract in the language of the original document. The abstract covers the essentials of the publication, generally including a description of subject and purpose, disciplinary approach, nature of the research and source materials. Where applicable an indication of the time period, specific geographical information, as well as the names of persons, languages and ethnic groups, are included.
Indexes and list of sources
