Database Trial - Aluka Digital Library of African Culture

Aluka is a not-for-profit collaboration of educational and cultural institutions with a mission to build a collection of scholarly materials from and about Africa.

The Aluka Digital Library includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. The African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes database links high-quality visual, contextual, and spatial documentation. The collection includes photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of African rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, travelers accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research. Highlighted collections include African Plants, African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes, and Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa. By aggregating these materials online, the Aluka collections link materials that are widely dispersed and difficult to access, opening up new opportunities for research and teaching. One of Aluka’s primary objectives is to provide African scholars and students with access to scholarly materials originally from Africa, but now out of their reach.

For more information about Aluka or to use the collection, please go to www.aluka.org.

Albion College students and faculty can take advantage of free access to Aluka through December 31, 2007.