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La Biblioteca virtuale dell'Africa sub-Sahariana è un portale che consente un accesso integrato a risorse informative tradizionali (libri, riviste ecc.) e digitali (siti web, documenti digitali) di notevole interesse scientifico. Il portale interroga simultaneamente una serie di cataloghi e banche dati, facilitando l'operazione di ricerca.The internet library sub-Saharan Africa (ilissAfrica) is a portal  that offers an integrated access to relevant scientific conventional and  digital information resources on the sub-Saharan Africa region.  Information scattered on private or institutional websites, databases or  library catalogues are brought together in order to facilitate  research. Without ilissAfrica this information has to be collected in a  laborious and time-consuming process.ilissAfrica allows simultaneous searching ("General search") in the  following electronic resources:Library Catalogue UB Frankfurt (mainly books)Africa Section of the database World Affairs Online incl. the  Africa library catalogue of GIGA Hamburg (books and journal articles) as  from 1985Library Catalogue of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The  Netherlands (books and journal articles)Library Catalogue of the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in  Uppsala/SwedenLibrary Catalogue of the Department of Anthropology and African  Studies at Mainz University with Jahn Library and AMASSG-Section of the Swets database "Online Contents" (titles of journal articles)Database  on internet resources with more than 3000 websites on sub-Saharan  AfricaFurthermore an Africa  Section of the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) to search  E-Journals is provided.ilissAfrica is a project of the Africa Department of the University  Library Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt on the Main in  cooperation with the GIGA Information Centre: Africa Library in Hamburg.  Together they are in charge of the DFG Special  Collections on sub-Saharan Africa.The project is financed by the DFG.  It is embedded in the cross-disciplinary portal for virtual libraries vascoda.ilissAfrica supports the association "European Librarians in  African Studies" (ELIAS) as a  european network aiming to promote professional exchange and  cooperation among its members. The "Africa Section" of the Electronic  Journals Library (EZB) was one source for the Wikipedia-article "African Studies  Journals".URL: &#60;http://www.ilissafrica.de/en/about/iliss-project.html&#62;