• Africa Commons from Coherent Digital, Moi University, and Digital Divide Data partner to digitize a major East African Archive

Citing a press release Library Technology Guides notes that “The legacy of Hilary Ng’weno, recognized as one of Africa’s most accomplished journalists, can now be studied online through a groundbreaking partnership among Moi University, Digital Divide Data (DDD), and Coherent Digital’s Africa Commons.
“Digitized for the first time, The Hilary Ng’weno Archive offers a rich repository of historical documents, articles, and films that captured Africa’s sociopolitical landscape during East Africa’s postcolonial period. The archive contains over 100,000 pages of full text, including full runs of The Weekly Review, The Nairobi Times, and Rainbow children’s magazine, along with hundreds of films produced by Ng’weno …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCE

• CRKN and Library and Archives Canada partner to improve access to digitized handwritten materials in Héritage Collection

• Video Recordings & Slides Now Available: “From Gutenberg to ChatGPT: Will AI Change the Mission of Academic and Research Libraries” (2023 IFLA ARL Hot Topics Session)

• More Authors, Including Michael Chabon, Sue AI Developers Over Copyright

• 2023 National Book Award Longlists Announced

• Clarivate showcases next-generation IP management software at PIFC in Japan

• Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries (New ACRL publication)

• Professors Rebecca Vega Thurber and Robert J. Toonen appointed Co-Editors-in-Chief of PeerJ Open Advances in Marine Biology

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WEBINARS

IntechOpenJournals – Webinar Series; Engaging with Open Science 2023

According to a recent e-mail “IntechOpen is delighted to announce the forthcoming webinar in our ‘Engaging with Open Science 2023’ webinar series. The webinar will be centred around the topic of open peer review and take place during Peer Review Week on 26 September at 2 pm UK time/3 pm CET/9 am ET, coinciding perfectly with the theme for PRW 2023, “Peer Review and The Future of Publishing.

“Our speakers, Adrian Stanely and Alessio Bolognesi are leaders in the field of open peer review and new peer review models. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities around peer review models with Alessio in particular discussing the impact this has had at eLife.

“To learn more about the speakers and register for the webinar, please visit: https://www.intechopen.com/journals/open-science/webinars-2023. …