Selected journals and indexing resources:
Selected books:
- Indistrialisation, mining resources and energy in Africa. Codesria
Books, 1992.
- Ephemeral rivers and their catchments : sustaining people and
development in western Namibia. by Peter J. Jacobson. Desert Research
Foundation of Namibia,1995.
- El Dorado in West Africa: the gold mining frontier, African labor, and colonial capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. By Raymond E. Dumett. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998.
- Dar es Salaam water demand : an end-use perspective. Dar es
Salaam: Centre for Energy, Environment, Science, and Technology,
1998.
- Culture, historyand science and technology-based economic strategies
in Africa: a view from political economy. SAPES Books, 1999.
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Engineering Development and the
Environment. Prost Pub, 1999.
- Advances in planning and management of watersheds and wetlands
in eastern and southern Africa. Weaver Press, 1999.
- Compendium on best practices in small-scale mining in Africa.
UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002.
- Breaking new ground: mining, minerals and sustainable development:
the report of the MMDS project. Earthscan, 2002.
- Digital
atlas of Namibia.
- Mining for sustainable development in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam
University Press, 2003.
- Climate change, trade and modes of production in sub-Saharan
Africa. Dar es Salaam University Press, 2003.
- Extractive industries in arid and semi-aird zones. IUCA, 2003.
- Mining and critical ecosystems: mapping the risks. World Resources
Institute, 2003.
- The great lakes of Africa: two thousand years of history. MIT
Press, 2003.
- Artisanal and small-scale mining: challenges and opportunitites.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2003.
- The socio-economic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining
in developing countries. Balkema, 2003.
- Mineral exploration and sustainable development : proceedings
of the Seventh Biennial SGA Meeting, Athens, Greece, 24-28 August
2003. Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits. Meeting
(7th : 2003 : Athens, Greece), Millpress, 2003.
- Regulating mining in Africa: for whose benefit? Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,
2004.
- Re-creating Eden : land use, environment, and society in southern
Angola and northern Namibia. Heinemann, 2004.
- Africa's blessing, Africa's curse: the legacy of resource extraction
in Africa. Third World Network Africa, Ghana, 2004.
- The impact of climate change on drylands : with a focus on West
Africa / edited by A.J. Dietz, R. Ruben, and A. Verhagen. Dordrecht
; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2004.
- Sustainable utilization of mineral resources in Sub-Saharan
Africa: a comparative appraisal of the mining regime in Nigeria.
G. A. Oke. Master's thesis, York University, 2004.
- Sustainable energy in developing countries : policy analysis
and case study of Sri Lanka. Peter Meier. Edward Elgar Pub., 2005.
- Small-scale mining, rural subsidence and poverty in West Africa.
Rugby, Warwickshire : Practical Action Publishing, 2006.
- Women miners in developing countries : pit women and others.
By Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Marsha McIntyre. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Pub., 2006.
- Africa
- Up in Smoke?: The Second Report from the Working Group on
Climate Change and Development. 2006.
- Environmental
Sensitivity Atlas for Coastal Areas of Kenya. 2006.
- Regional climate variability and its impacts in the Mediterranean area. Springer, 2006.
- Climate change in developing countries. CABI, 2006.
- Atlas of cultural and environmental change in arid Africa. Köln
: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2007.
- Untapped: the scramble for Africa's oil. By John Ghazvinian.
Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2007.
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- Africa
Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent - multimedia materials
on Africa
- Aluka - Digital scholarly
resource of materials from and about Africa.
- WEBLIS
- free integrated library system softwareavailable free from UNESCO
and ICIE
- TEK - E-mail based
Web browser that minimizes time online. Researchers can send an
email to TEK search engine which will search the Web using Google
or Scirus then return compressed results to researcher via email.
Funding Sources and Subsidized Access Projects:
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HINARI
(Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative) - provides
developing nations with free or nominal-fee access to scientific
resources in public health.
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OARE
(Online Access to Research on the Environment)- provides
developing nations with free or nominal-fee access to scientific
literature on the environment.
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AGORA
(Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) - provides developing
nations with free or nominal-fee access to scientific literature
on agriculture and the environment.
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Highwire
Press - Provides free access to journal titles for developing
economies
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Lyell
Collection - publications of the Geological Society of London.
Free access to qualifying organizations in developing countries.
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