Tag Archives: Open Access
Big data visualization of an open access digital library
With a huge hat tip to my friend and colleague Keith Manuel (paraphrasing): American Libraries Direct, the American Library Association (ALA) online newsletter, links to a visualization of all the 14 million volumes in HathiTrust created by Prof. Ben Schmidt of Northeastern University: “A guided tour of the digital library.” As you scroll down, you’ll see […]
African scientific journal will be open access
Scientific African, a new open-access journal from Elsevier, will showcase Africa’s often-overlooked scientific research to give the continent’s scientists better global recognition. The publisher claims it will be the first “mega-journal” in Africa. Introduced recently in Kigali at the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) conference, the first issue is scheduled to be published at the end of summer […]
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
New Open Access Book: Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? Press release by Alison Major, Marketing & Distribution Manager for University College London (UCL Press). UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to readers of this list: Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa. Download free […]
DR Congo province monographs and more
RMCA publications Online publications These on-line publications can be accessed and downloaded free of charge. Currently four series are available online (digital series): Monographs of the DR Congo Provinces (Monographies des provinces de la République démocratique du Congo) This collection of 26 monographs is part of an ongoing project on the new provinces of the DR Congo. […]
East African history resources from British Library
Exciting news of British cartographic materials for historical research available online. The British Library has catalogued, conserved and digitised over 550 military intelligence maps and associated documents from the War Office Archive relating to the former British East Africa (modern-day Kenya, Uganda and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and […]
Indigenous publishing in Africa
Hans Zell’s “Indigenous publishing in Africa – the need for research, documentation, and collaboration” is available as a pre-print at Academia.edu. This contribution to the collection, Coming of Age. Strides in African Publishing. Essays in Honour of Dr. Henry Chakava @ 70, is to be published by East African Educational Publishers Ltd, Nairobi, later this month. The book will […]
Ethical Access to “Music Time in Africa”
A recent NEH award of $260,000 to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor supports the digitization and online access to an archive of African popular music dating from the 1960s to the 1980s. It includes about 7,500 hours of audio recordings, program scripts and field notes. The materials were collected and created by Leo Sarkisian for the Voice of […]
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016
We’ve reported on (well, linked to) Beale‘s work here for a few years now (since Feb. 2013). This important resource for scholars seeking reliable Open Access journals (and working to avoid potential pitfalls) continues to attract much attention according to our site statistics, so it’s a great pleasure to provide this year’s update today. Beall’s List of Predatory […]
Open access breakthrough for South Africa’s Rising Star discovery
On September 10, 2015 a new species of extinct Homo was published, H. naledi. Our genus has only one living species, H. sapiens (humans), but we know of a few extinct cousins from fossil remains. Such finds are exciting because, among other things, they are the rarest of all fossil finds. Berger et al. 2015. “Homo naledi, a new […]
Models for publishing in African Studies
A guest post on Ton Dietz‘s blog (“Publish or Perish in African Studies: new ways to valorize research” posted on September 14, 2015 by fennekenveldkamp) offers a nice summary of African and western, as well as academic and publisher perspectives on the current status and range of publishing models. Dietz is Director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. This […]
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