Librarian/Curator for Latin American and Iberian Studies
UCLA African Studies Collections
This guide is intended for researchers and students with a focus on Africa, including its surrounding islands of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
Information on UCLA collections and licensed resources, as well as freely accessible material elsewhere, are included. The guide provides pathways to a variety of resource formats: printed and online books, journals and magazines, news sources, maps, government documents, film and video, sound-recordings, and statistical data sets.
Please note that off-campus access to licensed resources (for UCLA users only) requires user authentication through the proxy server or VPN.
Quick Links
Find books and other material in library collections:
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UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
UC Library Search is the unified discovery and borrowing system for all 10 UC Campuses. Select the UCLA Library Catalog scope to search holdings of materials owned by the UCLA Library and other UCLA collections, whether online or in print. Does not contain full-text articles or article citations. Select the Articles, books and more scope to search for materials in all 10 UC campuses. More information in this guide.
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WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
OCLC FirstSearch catalog includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, archival material, etc., in libraries around the world.
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