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Why choose a website?
Many organizations publish their material directly to their website, so the internet can be a great source of information. However, use information from the web with caution. Since anyone could publish information on the internet you must evaluate the source of the information to make sure it is authoritative. All websites recommended by librarians are authoritative.
Evaluating Websites
Remember to always evaluate a website before using it for research purposes.
Some criteria for evaluating websites include:
- Accuracy
- Authority
- Coverage
- Currency
- Objectivity
- Purpose
- Support
You can always ask a librarian or your professor for an opinion about a specific website.
Suggested Websites
The links below will take you to freely available Web sites on African history or African studies.
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent "A strong multimedia resource from a prominent African studies program. Covers all nations. Includes more than 3,000 slides and 500 photographs...artisans, buildings and structures, cities and towns, education, landscape, religion, and women.
- Africa South of the Sahara
From Stanford University, this excellent guide was compiled by Karen Fung for the Information and Communication Technology Group (ICTG), African Studies Association, USA. This guide can be browsed by country, by topic, or searched. - African e-Journals Project "The African e-Journals Project makes journals published in Africa and about Africa more available to scholars worldwide."Includes some full text and links to other resources.
- African History Resources - History of Africa - Directories - Links
Compiled by AcademicInfo - African Studies Internet Resources This is "an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries."
- African Voices from the Smithsonian Natural History Web site
- BBC World Service | The Story of Africa "African history from the dawn of time..." Text broken down by themes and including some podcasts and other media.
- History of Africa from the HistoryWorld Web site
- Internet African History Sourcebook created by Paul Halsall at Fordham University
- World Digital Library---Africa The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to:Promote internationa
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