Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature incorporated in AfricaBib

The African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, the Netherlands and the Library of Congress’s Nairobi Office are pleased to announce that the database of the Library of Congress’s Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (1991-2011) has been incorporated in the ASC’s Africana Periodical Literature AfricaBib database as of 1 April 2013. The new database is now available online and researchers can consult one significantly enhanced database instead of two separate and smaller ones. Some 51,000 QIAPL citations from 750 journals from 29 Sub-Saharan African countries have been added to the ASC’s AfricaBib database, which now has almost 200,000 entries. Wherever possible, QIAPL citations include links to the full text of an article to make elusive articles with original African content easier to access.

The ASC Library will not add new entries from periodicals that the Library of Congress covered. Entries will be added from journals the ASC Library subscribes to, with the emphasis being placed on links to the full text. About 6000 links to full text have recently been added to the former QIoAPL  entries and this has made the citations more useful for scholars and students alike.

AfricaBib:   http://www.africabib.org/perio.htm

If you require any further information about the above-mentioned merger, please contact Jos Damen, the Director of the ASC Library: JDamen@ascleiden.nl