Aluka, from the Zulu word for “to weave, ” is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The website includes a wide variety of scholarly materials, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. To demonstrate Aluka’s potential, three content areas are being developed: African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes; African Plants; and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. New materials are added to the collections on an ongoing basis. Aluka’s creators intend for it to serve as a model for future efforts to document other regions of the developing world.
As subscribers to the JSTOR Collections, UNH will receive free access to Aluka through June 2008.
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