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Finding African Studies Information at Stanford
All Topics
Socrates | What's Not in Socrates (pdf file)

Journal Article Indexes

Stanford E-Journals

African Studies On-line Books

African Newspapers

News Feeds

Government Publications

Films / Videos

Theses & Dissertations

Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources


Specific Topics
AIDS in Africa. 2007 Sophomore College

Aids in Africa Articles (print articles in SUL)

History

History Class - R. Roberts

South Africa

Literature

Nigeria Magazine Holdings

Sudan Notes & Records Holdings

UC - Stanford Cooperation


Useful Reference Works
Chicago Manual of Style Online

Not
in
Socrates!
The following categories are not in the online catalog, Socrates, or may be difficult to find in Socrates.
1. MANY HOOVER NEWSPAPERS, SOME HOOVER JOURNALS
2. SOME HOOVER BOOKS CATALOGED BEFORE THE LATE 1970s
3. HOOVER PAMPHLET COLLECTION
4. HOOVER ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS IN DETAIL
5. HOOVER HOLDINGS IN THE GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS/SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS CATALOG
6. MANY BOOKS LISTED ONLY UNDER THE SERIES
How to Find the Above
1. SOME HOOVER NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS.
For older issues, see the Serials/Newspaper Catalog in Hoover’s Reading Room, 1st Floor. The Hoover Serials Catalog and the Newspaper Catalog only list older issues which are in the stacks. The library staff stopped adding to the catalog years ago. Current newspaper issues are in Green Library, Information Center.
Example of journals not in Socrates:
Congo News Letter
1919-1952
Call no. MFILM S376
Location: Hoover Library
Revue de l’education nationale, de la jeunesse et de la culture
Nos. 2-3; Oct 1963, Jan. 1964
Conakry, Guinea: Ministere de l’education nationale
Call no. SERIAL GUINEA
Location: Hoover Library
Some journals and newspapers in Hoover Library may be hard to find because of minimal cataloging such as the record below which lacks Subject Headings.
Call number: SERIAL:SOUTH AFRICA
Title: SASO Newsletter
Library Holdings:: HOOVER - STACKS
Library has: [1-6, 1971-76]//
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HOOVER SERIAL:SOUTH AFRICA STACKS
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2. SOME HOOVER BOOKS and SERIALS CATALOGED BEFORE THE LATE 1970s.
Books, documents, and serials cataloged for Hoover Library before around 1979 may not be in SOCRATES, Stanford’s online catalog. Be sure to look in the Hoover Card Catalog.
Examples of titles at Hoover Library but not listed in Socrates.
Royal Commonwealth Society. Library.
Subject catalogue. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1971. 7 vols.
Hoover Reference (under dictionary stand) Z7164.C7R89f
Includes hard to find journal articles from the 1930s-1960s. Vols. 3-4 cover Africa.
Banque centrale des etats de l'Afrique de l'ouest.
Title: Notes d'information et statistiques
Imprint: [Paris] : The Bank, 1956-
Physical Description: no. ill. 28-30 cm.
Current frequency: Monthly (bimonthly, Aug.-Sept.)
Volume/date range: no. 1- 1956-
Notes: Issues for 19 -1958 published by the bank under its earlier name:
Institut d'emission de l'Afrique occidentale francaise et du Togo.
Subject (LC): Africa, French-speaking West--Economic conditions.
Africa, French-speaking West--Bibliography.
Organization: Institut d'emission de l'Afrique occidentale francaise et du Togo.
Absorbed: Bulletin trimestriel (Banque Centrale du Mali) 1984
The Jackson Business School Library has a record in Socrates but Hoover does not have a record in Socrates, though it has holdings. You need to look in Hoover’s G.D.-S.P. Catalog, in the France section, under Banque centrale des etats de l'Afrique de l'ouest.
It’s in the France section because it was published in Paris, France at one time.
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Belgium. Office de l’Information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi.
Belgian Congo.
Brussels, 1959-1960. 2 vols. Translated from French.
This title is not listed in Socrates but is listed in the Hoover Tower card catalog.
DT644.A4852
Title: Four Power Commission of Investigation for the Former Italian Colonies = Commission d'enquete des quatres puissances dans les anciennes colonies Italiennes.
Publication: [S.l.] : Four Power Commission,
Year:1948
Description: 3 v. : p., folded maps ;, 34 cm. Lacks Supp. To Vol. 2
Language: French
This work, which concerns Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya, is not in Socrates though Hoover Library has it. In World Catalog only Oxford Univ. is listed. In RLIN only New York Public Library is listed.
Title: Report of the Sowah Commission, appointed under the Commission of Enquiry Act, 1964 (Act 250) and N.L.C. Investigation and Forfeiture of Assests Decree, 1966 N.L.C.D. 72 to enquire into the assests of specified persons.
3 volumes.
Author(s): Sowah, Ernest Nee Pobee.
Corp Author: Ghana. Sowah Commission.
Publication: Accra-Tema : [s.n.],
Year: 1968
SUBJECT(S)
Misconduct in office -- Ghana.
Ghana -- Politics and government -- 1957-1979.
This 3 volume report is not listed in Socrates but is listed in Hoover’s card catalog under: Ghana. Commission to Enquire into the Assets…….
Call no. HB711.G412
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3. HOOVER PAMPHLETS.
Hoover Library has an extensive collection of pamphlets. Older pamphlets can be found in the Hoover Card Catalog only under very general subject headings such as Malawi - Politics & Government or under the name of a person or organization. More recent pamphlets are in the Hoover Archives in the country subject collections, such as the Botswana Subject Collection, the Liberian, Chadian, South African, Lesotho or other Subject Collections.
For pamphlets found through the Card Catalog, , there will be a card in the catalog under the name of the subject, person, or organization, saying
“Additional material on this subject may be found in the Pamphlet Collection.”
“Please request the collection of materials classed as:
Pam
Call No. XXXX
4. HOOVER ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
When you go to the Hoover Archives (next to Green Library), look at the country lists or subject lists or Archives catalogs. If a collection has an inventory, you will find it in the black binders in the Archives Reading Room.
SOCRATES provides entries for each collection but does not include detailed listings of collection contents.
A few collections in Hoover and Green libraries have finding aids online at the Online Archive of California. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
There are separate links for Hoover Institution and for Stanford University
holdings.
5. HOOVER GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS / SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS CATALOG.
The GD/SP Catalog is in the Hoover Reading Room, 1st Floor. It’s holdings may be listed in SOCRATES without subject headings and lacking Library of Congress call numbers. The GD/SP Catalog has older government publications, older monographs, and some serials published by societies or organizations.
It contains for example -
• journals published by “societies” or political parties such as the CIVIL RIGHTS LEAGUE. NEWSLETTER.
• Older legislative proceedings, such as:
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South Africa. Coloured Persons Representative Council. Debates.
South Africa. South African Indian Council. Debates.
South Africa. House of Assembly. Debates.
South Africa. House of Delegates. Debates.
South Africa. House of Representatives. Debates.
Owambo. Legislative Assembly. Proceedings.
Many of the catalog cards for legislative debates do not list complete holdings. Just request the dates you want. If they are available, the pages will retrieve the volumes.
Publications in the GD/SP Catalog are found under the country where they were published. For example, a newsletter published by the African National Congress in exile in Zambia is listed in the Zambia section, not in the South Africa section.
Examples of titles in the GD / SP Catalog.
Rhodesian Institute of African Affairs.
Monthly Bulletin.
Bulawayo
Nos. 1-101; June 1956-Aug/Sept. 1965
Call no. SP Rhodesia, Southern
In Hoover Library’s GD-SP Catalog; it’s not in Socrates.
Under “call number’ G.D. FRENCH WEST AFRICA
Organization: French West Africa.
Title: Recueil de jurisprudence de l'Afrique noire.
Organization: French West Africa.
Title: Bulletin officiel mensuel de la Regie des chemins de fer de l'AOF.
Imprint: Dakar.
7. MANY BOOKS LISTED ONLY UNDER THE SERIES
Title: Female power in African politics: the National Congress of Sierra Leone
Author(s): Steady, Filomina Chioma.
Publication: Pasadena, Calif. : California Institute of Technology,
Year: 1975
Description: iv, 88 p. : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Series: Munger Africana Library notes ;; issue #31 (August
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1975); Variation: Munger Africana Library notes ;; issue #31.
The above publication is not in Socrates by author or title.
It’s not listed as held by Stanford in WorldCat.