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Sunday, 20th June 2010

New Online, Full Text, and Free Database: The African Journal Archive

From the Website:

The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, providing access to a multi-disciplinary, multi-country digital archive of Africa’s research and cultural heritage contained in its journal literature.

The African Journal Archive is a project of Sabinet Gateway, a non-profit organisation promoting and supporting library and information services in Africa. The project is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. See Press Release of 8th June 2008. (Word Document)

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Will the Archive be available on Open Access?
Users will have free access to the journals which join the project before July 2012.

From the Announcement:

The website currently comprises 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums, and professional research organizations in Africa.

Over the next three years, Sabinet’s goal is to digitize, index and provide access to more than 200 journals consisting of a total of 90,000 indexed articles in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The Archive will emphasize collections in the fields of agriculture, botany, zoology, history, law, education, politics, medicine, geology, and interdisciplinary works will be developed. Published material will be acquired from the journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums and professional research organizations throughout Africa will. And coverage will be retrospective to at least ten years but, back to the earliest issue if possible.

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