Libraries with Major Africana collections in Europe and Australia

 Africana Library Catalogs and Archives

• Archives de France. Centre des Archives d'Outre Mer -- Basé sur BiblioML (Aix-en-Provence, France)
  
  
• Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (Portugal) (via Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal)
  This site --in Portuguese-- provides descriptions of the collections and contact information only. From the main IICT site, under "TDD", "SIARQ", and "Bases de Dados", limited searching is possible.
  
  
• Biblioteca Central de Estudos Africanos--Catalog (Lisbon, Portugal)
  A "joint effort" of The Centro de Estudos Africanos do ISCTE, the Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, the Centro de Estudos sobre Africa e do Desenvolvimento do ISEG/UTL, and the Centro de Estudos Africanos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
  
  
• Biblioteca Nacional do Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • BNP Home Page
  • Porbase: Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos
  
  
• La Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris)
  
  
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Catalogue Collectif de France (Paris)
  Ce catalogue offre l'accès unique à trois grands catalogues français: BN-OPALE, SUDOC, et BMR. On peut localiser les documents conservés dans les principales bibliothèques municipales, universitaires et de recherche françaises, soit plus de 160 établissements.
  
  
• Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC)-- Catalogue (Lille et Paris, France)
  Le catalogue de la BULAC en ligne de 22 bibliothèques partenaires à Paris.
  --Veuillez voir la liste des bibliothèques.
  --Voir aussi, la version de ce site en anglais.
  
  
• The British Library (London, UK)
  -- BLPC, the online catalogue.
  -- About the African Collections
  
  
• Cambridge University Libraries (Cambridge, UK)
  • NEWTON and other catalogues
  
  
• Centre d'Etude d'Afrique noire (CEAN) de l'Institut d'Etudes politiques de Bordeaux (Université Montesquieu -- Bordeaux IV, France)
  
  
• CEDAF: Institut africain -- Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation, Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgique
  
  
• Centre of African Studies Library, University of Copenhagen = Center for Afrikastudier, Københavns Universitet (Denmark)
  
  
• Copac National, Academic and Specialist Library Catalogue for the United Kingdom and Ireland (via University of Manchester, UK)
  A merged online catalog of major research libraries in the UK --including The British Library, Edinburgh University, Leeds University, London School of Economics & Political Science, University of Birmingham, University of London--SOAS, University of Manchester, University of Oxford -- and several institutions in Ireland.
  
  
• The European Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague)
  "The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources of 43 national libraries of Europe...especially the national libraries of Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with ICCU (the national central cataloguing institute from Italy) and CENL (the Conference of European National Librarians)."
  
  
• Institut für Afrika-Kunde Library, Hamburg, Germany
  • Online catalogue
  
  
• The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, UK)
  • Library catalogue
  
  
• Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen = Royal Tropical Institute -- Library & Information Services (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  
  
• La Trobe University -- Library (Bundoora, Victoria, Australia)
  Search the online catalogue.
  
  
• Leiden University, African Studies Centre -- Library, Documentation, and Information (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • This unique African studies data base contains titles of monographs, journal articles and chapters from edited works acquired since 1988. Most entries include professional in-depth abstracts.
  • ASC catalogue
  
  
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet/Bibliotek = The Nordic Africa Institute/Library (Uppsala, Sweden)
  -- AfricaLit: Library Catalogue
  
  
• Oxford University Libraries -- OLIS (United Kingdom)
  • Rhodes House Library: Bodlean Library of Commonwealth and African Studies
  
  
• SOAS: School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (London, UK)
  
  
• Switzerland
  • Basler Afrika Bibliographien -- Namibia Resource Centre/Southern Africa Library (Basel, Switzerland)
    -- BAB Home Page
    -- BAB library catalogue
    
    
  • Catalogue Virtuel Suisse: meta-catalogue pour la recherche bibliographique de livres et périodiques dans des bibliothèques suisses
  • Swiss National Library -- Helveticat (Zurich, Switzerland)
  
  
• University of London Research Library Services -- Main Catalogue (London, UK)
  See also: ULRLS Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue.
  
  
• United Kingdom, The National Archives (Kew, Richmond, Surrey)
  • Search the collections
  
  
• Universität Bayreuth, Germany
  • Katalog der Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth (English version)
    
  • Databases of publications in African studies (Institute of African Studies, Bayreuth University)
  
  
• Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne -- Catalogue (Paris, France)
  
  
• University of Birmingham -- Library Catalogue (Birmingham, UK)