Coherent Digital

Access to African knowledge

Sabinet, owned by a consortium of African universities, is the largest provider of African electronic materials for libraries.

In partnership with Sabinet, and as part of our Africa Commons initiative, we've knit Sabinet’s separate resources together to create a unified collection that's available to libraries outside Africa.

Sabinet Complete is a simple, affordable solution for bringing African voices into your library holdings.

Three products—now integrated to form a single resource

African Journals

Over 442,000 articles from 560 African refereed and peer-reviewed journals from 1910 to the present.

Sabinet Newswire

An archive of 600,000 news articles, together with powerful searching tools.

Government, Labor, and Law

The most comprehensive collection for accessing, tracking, and analyzing South African government and laws.

"Sabinet and Coherent share a vision: to amplify African voices and scholarship on a global scale. Together, we help unlock African scholarly and primary resources for institutions globally, enriching the world with diverse perspectives."

Rosalind Hattingh, Managing Director, Sabinet, South Africa

African Journals

These 560 journals—published from 1910 to the present in fifteen countries—provide an African perspective on a wide range of topics.

Approximately 1,500 new articles are added every month, within days of their publication. All the materials are accredited.

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Sabinet Newswire

Researchers can understand the intricacy of South Africa’s past by exploring newswires from the South African Press Association (1999 to its closing in 2015) and the African News Agency (from its 2015 launch to the present).

Nearly 600,000 archived text news articles from 1999 to 2022 cover politics, economics, business and markets, sports, and general news related to South Africa specifically and Africa broadly.

Track events over time

For example, see how mentions of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee correlate closely with mentions of apartheid.

Government, Labor, and Law

Thirteen databases are combined to provide the most comprehensive service for tracking bills at the national, provincial, and municipal levels, with accompanying commentary on each bill, where it stands in the legislative process, and its history. Detailed judgments on labor issues and bargaining council agreements are included.

Legislative topics include apartheid, sports tourism, and labor negotiations—supporting research in comparative law, colonial studies, and African studies.

The only complete source of the South African Government Gazette

From 1910 through today, the publication provides every detail of official government positions, from the Republic's beginning through apartheid to today. The record shows how apartheid playout out in legislation. For example, the films Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Dog Day Afternoon were banned in 1976.

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