African Digital Research Repositories
If you’re looking to find digital repositories within the African continent, head over to the International African Institute!
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What is Open Access?
This short video from PhD Comics will give you a quick introduction to open access publishing.
Open Access: Green and Gold
The two most common methods for publishing open access are usually categorised as either gold or green open access. This video gives a brief overview of the two colour codes.
VAD Membership
Would you like to become a VAD member? You will find the necessary information here.
Citing websites
You want to cite websites in your research and want to make sure that, when someone reads your work in the future, they don’t hit “page not found” notifications when websites move or are deleted?
ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
Europe-wide search for African Studies materials
ilissAfrica (the internet library sub-Saharan Africa) is a portal that offers integrated access to relevant scientific conventional and digital information resources on sub-Saharan Africa.