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Title: | From paper to PDF? The publications of Africa-related international organisations, past, present and future |
Author: | Blake, David![]() |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | African Research and Documentation |
Issue: | 89 |
Pages: | 57-67 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | Internet African organizations publishing |
Abstract: | This paper examines the publications of five Africa-related international organizations (ECA, OAU, African Development Bank (ADB), ECOWAS, SADC). It focuses on the question of whether these organizations are replacing hard copies as the primary means of transmitting documents by electronic publications (PDF-files). The paper first briefly looks at the pattern of hard copy publication and considers the extent of library holdings of items from these bodies, in Great Britain and, to a much more limited extent, in the United States. It then looks at their websites and considers the extent to which the same information is available in both formats. Finally. the paper discusses the value of these websites for both users in Africa and elsewhere. |