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Open Access search engines
Special search engines for free full texts as well as open access tools Here we present special search engines for full text open access academic articles, open access tools, as well as a preprint repository for African Studies. Many articles and even entire books are available online free of charge. However, the general search engines
Digital Teaching in African Studies: Overview
The Specialised Information Service for African Studies has compiled suggestions and assistance for digital teaching at universities – especially in the current switch to online teaching for the summer semester 2020.
Digital Teaching in African Studies: Tools
A list of tools for use in digital teaching courtesy of the website Digital Teaching German Studies.
Free Resources
Offers from commercial publishers who are providing free access to their resources in the current crisis, as well as genuine Open Access journals specific to African Studies subjects.
Publishing and co-publishing books in African studies: guidelines for authors
The guidelines seek to assist academic authors publishing in African studies as to their options for co-publishing in the African continent.
How to avoid epistemicide
The Specialised Information Service for African Studies focuses on the acquisition of literature published on the African continent.
230 African Studies Open Access Journals
A list of 230 free Africa related e-journals, courtesy of the library of the African Studies Centre Leiden.
The German Research Foundation supports the ongoing development of the Specialised Information Service for African Studies
The second funding phase for the years 2020 to 2022 has been granted.