{"id":3162,"date":"2020-01-07T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T13:30:24","slug":"new-to-the-library-struggles-for-freedom-southern-africa-aluka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2020\/01\/07\/new-to-the-library-struggles-for-freedom-southern-africa-aluka\/","title":{"rendered":"New to the Library &#8211; Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (Aluka)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to let you know that following a request from a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/history-classics-archaeology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HCA<\/a> staff the Library\u00a0 now has a subscription to the digital primary resource <strong>Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (Aluka)<\/strong> from JSTOR. This extensive and fascinating resource contains 20,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images documenting the liberation struggles in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3172\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_homepage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_homepage.png 986w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_homepage-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_homepage-490x300.png 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can access <strong>Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (Aluka)<\/strong> via the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Databases A-Z list <\/a><\/strong>and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edinburgh-uk.libguides.com\/primary-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital primary source and archive collections guide<\/a>. <\/strong>You can also access it via <a href=\"https:\/\/discovered.ed.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1njkql8\/44UOE_ALMA61222970260002466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DiscoverEd<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3173 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_collections-300x261.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_collections-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_collections-345x300.png 345w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2019\/12\/Aluka_StrugglesforFreedom_collections.png 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mainly covering the 20th century, <strong>Struggles for Freedom<\/strong> brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.<\/p>\n<p>With 76 collections within the resource, documents include periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.<\/p>\n<p>You can access <strong>Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (Aluka)<\/strong> via the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Databases A-Z list <\/a><\/strong>and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edinburgh-uk.libguides.com\/primary-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital primary source and archive collections guide<\/a>. <\/strong>You can also access it via <a href=\"https:\/\/discovered.ed.ac.uk\/permalink\/f\/1njkql8\/44UOE_ALMA61222970260002466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DiscoverEd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Library has access to a wide range of digital primary source databases, you can find all of these on the <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburgh-uk.libguides.com\/primary-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital primary source and archive collections guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p><em>Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to let you know that following a request from a member of HCA staff the Library\u00a0 now has a subscription to the digital primary resource Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (Aluka) from JSTOR. This extensive and fascinating resource &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2020\/01\/07\/new-to-the-library-struggles-for-freedom-southern-africa-aluka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,3,4,164],"tags":[119,109,264,138,106,14,7,265,6,24,140,85,59,17,65],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dF2q-P0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}