CDRom from NISC offering bibliographical databases, including::
(a) Africa Institute, Pretoria: catalogue of holdings, 1981 to date on Africa (especially southern Africa), with a focus on political, socio-economic, international and development issues. Records are subject indexed (many with abstracts)
(b) Southern African Database (Sardius): database from Jan Smuts Library in Johannesburg. Includes the holdings on the SA Institute of International Affairs at the University of the Witwatersrand. Some 60,00 subject indexed records covering the SADC countries
(c) School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS): 55,000 records dating from 1989 to date from the library database (see separate entry)
(d) Bibliography on Contemporary African Politics and Development: from the African Library at UCLA. Some 21000 records dating from 1981-92 (subject indexed, half with abstracts)
(e) International Library of African Music (ILAM): covering recordings and publications in ILAM collection on Central, Eastern and Southern Africa.
(f) African Studies Abstracts: published 1994-1998 by Hans Zell Publishers and currently published by Bowker-Saur, and six volumes (1988-1993) of Documentatieblad, its predecessor (20,000 records). This database has been combined by NISC with the African Studies Centre Leiden Library (ASC) catalogue of books and periodicals (24,000 records)
(g) Business & Industry: Africa (1994-present): With nearly 7,000 records, Business & Industry® Africa has a dual emphasis: 1) indexing the facts, figures, and key events of companies, industries, and markets based in Africa – as they impact the region and the rest of the world; and 2), including the facts, figures, and key events of companies, industries, and markets outside of Africa whose activities influence the African continent. Business & Industry®: Africa has full-text records, abstracts, and tables. More than 500 business-related publications from around the world are reviewed. Records are provided from Responsive Database Services, Inc. Business & Industry® database
(h) NAMLIT: (19th century-present) The NAMLIT Database was created in 1978, the result of a private initiative to create a comprehensive bibliography of Namibia-related literature in Germany. Records included in NAMLIT are based on the holdings of a number of general libraries and special Namibia collections in Europe (mainly Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Norway and Finland) and the United Nations. Since 1990, NAMLIT has added records from Namibian libraries, in particular the National Library. With over 44,000 records, NAMLIT is a comprehensive bibliography of Namibia-related library material – both from Namibia, and from abroad. Materials indexed include: books, periodicals, maps, theses, grey literature (including unpublished conference papers) and audiovisual media, as well as analytic entries (articles).