South African Studies CD‐ROM

South African Studies is the title given to this collection of 11 databases all relating to South Africa. This vast resource, stored on one CD‐ROM, allows the user to interrogate these databases using one search interface. The databases, which vary in size, type and quality, are:

To access this varied and large amount of information, a reliable searching facility is needed. There are three modes of search: novice, advanced and expert. The novice approach is rather crude and indeed would seem superfluous. The advanced is suited best to browsing and the expert search is sufficiently powerful, employing full Boolean logic...