German copyright law allows authors under certain circumstances to make a copy of a scholarly work available online (/self-archiving) after having published it with a publisher. Many scholars are familiar with the experience: they just published a new article or they meet new colleagues at a conference when the question comes up where their work…
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Workshop-Programme: Research Data Management in African Studies
The programme for the workshop "Research Data Management in African Studies" (10-11 October 2018 in Bayreuth) is now available!
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AfricArXiv
A digital archive (repository) for pre-print publication in African studies
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Africa in Global Intellectual History – call for papers
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute Freie Universität Berlin 24th to 25th November 2018 Presentations are invited from PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and tenured faculty. All paper proposals (max. 250 words) must be submitted to: AfricaGIH@gmail.com by midnight (CET) on 31st August 2018. Please also include a CV with your institutional affiliation, position, name, and email address. Proposals will be…
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Audiovisual research data
Reading tipp: A guide to managing digital media for anyone using it as an integral part of carrying out research
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Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS)
Do you want to support journals from the Global South but need reassurance about their quality? Check out the Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) initiative!
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Workshop: data management in African Studies
This workshop is organized into three parts: 1. Infrastructure and Best Practice Examples, 2. Legal Perspectives, and 3. Perspectives from African Studies. The workshop is aimed at researchers and offers the opportunity to enter into a dialogue with legal experts and data archiving experts and will specifically address subject-specific questions.
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Re3Data
The project re3data.org, Registry of Research Data Repositories, presents repositories in a web-based directory and provides an orientation over existing data collections.
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Transkribus
Are you transcribing historical documents? Try out Transkribus for Handwritten Text Recognition.
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Gender bias
Gender bias in German and English with a short video.
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