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LATEST
Announcements, milestones, and updates.
September 12, 2023
Coherent Digital, Moi University, and Digital Divide Data partner to digitize The Hilary Ng'weno Archive — 100,000+ pages and hundreds of films from East Africa’s postcolonial period.
June 14, 2023
Alexandria — Coherent Digital LLC acquires Accessible Archives Inc., adding 24 new collections (including African American and women's history) to its History Commons portfolio.
June 13, 2023
Africa Commons selected as a finalist for the prestigious ALPSP Award for Impact in Publishing 2023, a newly introduced award celebrating positive impact in scholarly communication and academic research.
May 22, 2023
Coherent Digital releases World Cities on the Policy Commons platform — curating and preserving hundreds of thousands of publications from over 1,000 cities worldwide.
May 16, 2023
Coherent Digital launches Southern African Films and Documentaries on Africa Commons with 100+ films from the 1900s to early 2000s, growing to 200+ by end of 2023.
March 13, 2023
Coherent Digital launches Black South African Magazines on Africa Commons — 277 issues of the historically significant Drum and other rare Black-audience publications from 1937 to 1973, digitized in South Africa.
November 13, 2022
Coherent Digital's South Asia Archive receives award. (Full body content was missing from the legacy source page — only title and contact were captured.)
October 30, 2022
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and its fourteen member universities become founding members of Africa Commons, the latest project from Coherent Digital, launching in beta at the 2022 Charleston Conference.
