{"id":1907,"date":"2015-03-19T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:46:11","slug":"africabib-one-stop-search-africabib-indexed-by-google-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"AfricaBib: one-stop search;  AfricaBib indexed by Google Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Go to AfricaBib Home\" alt=\"Go to AfricaBib Home\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africabib.org\/images\/banner2.gif\" width=\"552\" height=\"37\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">Two news items about the database AfricaBib:<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-size: small;\"><b>1.<\/b> As of January 2015, it is possible to search through all 213,000 records simultaneously\u00a0 in a one-stop search in the database AfricaBib, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africabib.org\/afbib.htm\"><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.africabib.org\/afbib.htm<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 (or just click on a country on the map).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-size: small;\"><b>2.<\/b> During the last months of 2014, Google Scholar approached the African Studies Centre (Leiden) and got permission to index the AfricaBib database and use the metadata in Google Scholar.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-size: small;\">This means in practice that the &gt;210,000 records in AfricaBib will be more visible to scholars and other interested persons, and that\u00a0 more scholarly publications about and from Africa will receive the attention\u00a0 they deserve.<\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">About AfricaBib:<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #1f497d; font-size: small;\">The database AfricaBib contains more than 210,000 records. Originally started as a bibliographic information project by Davis Bullwinkle (Univ. of Arkansas) in 1974, the site consists of two bibliographic databases covering <b>Africana periodical literature <\/b>and <b>African Women&#8217;s literature<\/b>. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography on <b>women travelers and explorers to Africa<\/b>. In June 2012 two bibliographies were added, one on <b>Islam in Africa<\/b>, the other on the <b>Kenya Coast<\/b>. In July 2014 <b>Water and Africa<\/b> was added. In 2012 the <b>Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (QIAPL)<\/b> from the Library of Congress was included in the database Africana periodical literature. The database is heavily used (with 330,876 visitors in 2014).<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Two news items about the database AfricaBib: 1. As of January 2015, it is possible to search through all 213,000 records simultaneously\u00a0 in a one-stop search in the database AfricaBib, via http:\/\/www.africabib.org\/afbib.htm\u00a0 (or just click on a country on the map). 2. During the last months of 2014, Google Scholar approached the African Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}