HANS ZELL PUBLISHING
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"A tradition of excellence in African studies reference resources"
In continuation of the Hans Zell Publishers imprint previously part of Bowker-Saur/Reed Reference Publishing (terminated in 1998), Hans Zell Publishing - now operating from a small village in the north-west Scottish Highlands - are developing a new series of information sources on Africa, African studies, and African publishing, published both in print and electronic formats.
With
an introductory essay by Henry Chakava *of title
previously published as Publishing
and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Annotated Bibliography(London:
Hans Zell Publishers, 1996)
This
is a new, completely revised and fully updated edition of a much
acclaimed bibliography published over ten years ago. It charts the
growth of publishing and book development in the countries of Africa
south of the Sahara, as well as including a very large number of entries
on many other topics as they relate to books and reading in Africa. With
over 2,500 critically annotated citations, it is the most complete
documentation resource on
the current state of the book on
the African continent.
New
second edition now publishedPrint
only Africa: A Guide to Reference Material 2nd
revised and expanded edition by John McIlwaine, Professor Emeritus of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London First published in 1993, this is a new revised and substantially expanded
edition of a highly acclaimed reference resource that evaluates the
leading sources of information (other than bibliographies) on Africa South
of the Sahara. A benchmark volume in African studies bibliography, the
book was the winner of the UK Library Association's Besterman Medal for
1993, awarded annually for an outstanding bibliography.
New fourth edition
Print and online, online access bundled with print The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources 4th revised and expanded edition by Hans M. Zell
A new fourth edition of this sine qua non of African studies reference works, thoroughly revised and updated, and greatly expanded. The new edition includes several entirely new sections to further enhance the utility of this rich information resource. It contains a total of over 2,900 for the most part extensively annotated entries, providing a wide array of specifics for each entry.
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Using Google
for African Studies Research: Online
only
A Guide to Effective Web Searching The
pilot edition of this popular guide, published in September 2004, remains
freely accessible, but will not be updated any longer. A fully
updated and condensed version of the guide appears as Chapter 25 in the
4th revised and expanded 2006 edition of The African Studies Companion: A Guide to
Information Sources. The updated version now also
devotes some space to a number of new Google services launched since
publication of the pilot edition, for example Google Book Search/Google
Books Library Project, Google Earth, and Google Scholar.
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consultancy services to publishers and academic institutions, especially
the book community in Africa. We specialize in scholarly publishing,
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