The African Music Archive based at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz currently holds around 18,000 sound recordings in various formats (including shellac and vinyl records, audio and video cass…
Over 100 publishers and writers from all over the continent attended the third edition of the Paris African Book Fair (Salon du livre africain de Paris).
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved substantial funding for the further expansion of the Specialised Information Service (SIS) for African Studies and has awarded the Johann Christian S…
The Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaborations will serve to advance and uphold the continent’s contribution to the global production of knowledge.
The COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers aim to provide guidance and raise awareness of ethical obligations of reviewers. These guidelines are intended to be applied across disciplines.
Would you like to read and cite more works by Africa-based scholars? The SIS African Studies focuses on the acquisition of literature published on the African continent.
There is an ongoing misperception that simply storing and backing-up research data is equivalent to the conservation guaranteed by digital preservation.
Jane Lawrence Sumner's Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT) helps to automatically evaluate the (probabilistic) gender of each name on a reading list and then providing an estimate of what percentag…
The collection on Commemorative Fabrics from Africa is curated by Emilie Songolo and part of the digital collections at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Library.
CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) is one of the pioneers for open access publications of Africa-related research.
The German publisher transcript has a growing series of open access titles. Here you will find a selection of publications relevant to African Studies in English and German.
Here you will find podcasts for African Studies which are academically or thematically relevant, as well as recordings of lectures, talks or radio broadcasts.
The Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l'Afrique noire is available as a national license for Germany through the provider Classiques Garnier Numérique.
The African Studies Library (also known as "Fachinformationsdienst Afrikastudien" in German) has recently licensed an e-book package from the African Books Collective. Registered users have access to…
Information on digital resources on lusophone African countries by the Specialised Information Service (SIS) for Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies.
