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This group was constituted so that African librarians can come up with the list of the 1000 preferred books to be scanned from African libraries as part of a Biodiversity Heritage Library initiative for African literature.
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Does anyone know who to contact for technical assistance (e.g. using openURL correctly, data quality of litref metadata in BHL and in client database etc.)
Roderic Page The feedback form on the @BioDivLibrary http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Feedback.aspx usually gets a quick response. For technical details you could also contact Chris Freeland (@chrisfreeland on Twitter).
5th April
Chris Freeland Willem, apologies that I haven't been able to return your e-mail. Will do so now.
5th April
Wm: 1000 preferred books to be scanned from African libraries, or ...
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William Ulate Thanks Cathy!
22nd February
Not quite sure how this group works - do we make suggestions as comments, or add references to the group? In any event, one obvious candidate is "Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines", which has been scanned by BHL up to 1921 (http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10603) but which has been digitised up to 1989 (see http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?checkspelling=true&lookfor=Revue+de+Zoologie+Africaine&type=all&sethtftonly=true&submit=Find). Given the links between the BHL-Europe partner the Royal Museum for Central Africa http://www.africamuseum.be, surely access can be negotiated and this journal made available? In my opinion BHL needs to be much more ambitious in its efforts to cover post-1923 material. Many US BHL partners have made post 1923 content available, it would be nice to see equivalent contributions from Europe.
Bianca Crowley @rdmpage Yes, but Hathi scans are not open access. I suspect that the RMCA has or is pursuing permission.
10th January
Roderic Page .@FabLadyB Hope they succeed. I just find it odd that GoogleBooks and others have done a lot of scanning of books that by default are assumed to be in copyright and hence they (and derived projects like @hathitrust) hide the scans, whereas the institutions that published these works could, presumably, grant permission to make them open. Seems like ...
11th January
Bianca Crowley @rdmpage I've come to learn that duplication is part of the nature of the digital library business. We do our best to avoid it where we can. Since there is no one repository to rule them all, we do end up duplicating each other's efforts for a variety of issues, only one of which is copyright. Other issues come down to cataloging, condition of the ...
11th January
Lawrence Monda, Willem Coetzer, Patricia Mergen, Alex Asase, Graham Higley and 2 more have joined this group
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