A full-text, digital archive of journal articles published in Africa is now available at www.ajarchive.org. The African Journal Archive is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by South Africa-based Sabinet. It will make African research and cultural heritage published in Africa available free of charge to Africa-based and international researchers.
The Archive is a searchable, web-based collection of journal articles digitised back to the earliest issue, when available. The website currently comprises 150,000 pages of journal archives of academic, scholarly, institutional, museums and professional research organisations in Africa.
Journals available through the Archive are digitised at no charge to the publisher. Participating publishers also receive a preservation copy of their archived journal volumes.
Over the next three years, Sabinet aims to digitise, index and provide access to over 200 journals consisting of a total of 90,000 indexed articles in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The Archive will emphasise 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 organisations throughout Africa. Coverage will be retrospective to at least ten years but, back to the earliest issue if possible.
Carnegie Corporation's grant to Sabinet builds on the foundation's decade-long institutional support for universities and libraries. Through this and other investments, Carnegie Corporation is cultivating individual skills in the sciences and humanities, including a regional initiative to help increase the number of well-trained university faculty capable of teaching the next generation of African scientists and engineers.
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