AfricArXiv

AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works. We partner with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers on the African continent and globally.
Let us co-design the future of scholarly communication inside Africa.

Quick recap read: how it all began https://t.co/KOUOhq7sYd

We launched AfricArXiv in June 2018 envisioning a pan-African preprint repository with several goals in mind: pic.twitter.com/cogcBck5ux
— AfricArXiv (@AfricArxiv) February 20, 2020

Share your research in African Languages

Make your results citable and apply a CC-BY license

Promote Open Scholarship, Open Source and Open Standards

Submit your work

You can submit preprint manuscripts, postprints, presentations, datasets and other research result formats with any of our partner repositories:

Find more information about Zenodo, Pubpub, OSF and ScienceOpen at info.africarxiv.org/submit/.

News about Open Access in Africa

Capacity Building

AfricArXiv and COS partner to support pan-African research

Beyond open access publishing services for its community, AfricArXiv will facilitate more opportunities for rigorous and reproducible practices.

Announcements

AfricArXiv in a nutshell – what we do, our achievements and our roadmap

More than two years into our work with AfricArXiv we are glad to present an overview of our work. You find more details and information at Cite as: Ahinon, J. S., Ksibi, N., Havemann, J. Read more…

Interview

Interview with Olabode Omotoso of the National Cancer Prevention Programme, Nigeria

What is behind the observed low COVID-19 fatality in Africa? What is the state of research communication in Africa? Read through Mr. Olabode's engaging responses on the impact of life expectancy and SARS-Cov-2 genomic variation on COVID-19 transmission and fatality in Africa.

Collaboration

Call to action: COVID-19 Rapid Review

Originally published at: africarxiv.pubpub.org Cite as: AfricArXiv (2020). Call to action: COVID-19 Rapid Review. AfricArXiv. Retrieved from https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/pub/24sv5nej As a supporter and signatory of the COVID-19 Publishers Open Letter of Intent for Rapid Review we Read more…

Event

Rapid and Open Peer Review

What are the new technologies for research quality assessment in academic publishing in the light of Open Science?

Open Access

Interview with Ömer Özak of Southern Methodist University (SMU)

Do you know the role of diversity, cultural similarity and history in economic development and conflict in the context of Africa? In this interview Dr. Ömer explores this important subject and explains their work on the role of borders and conflict as one of the main problems in Africa.

Discover more African research

AfricArXiv preprints on OSF

osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/

Preprint manuscripts that were published on AfricArXiv via the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Digital Research Repositories

internationalafricaninstitute.org

List of repositories within the African continent.

African Journals Online

ajol.info

Online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.

AAS Open Research

aasopenresearch.org

A platform for rapid publication and open peer review for researchers.

'Africa' Open Knowledge Map

openknowledgemaps.org

Contextualised search results based on metadata and keywords and tagged with 'Africa'.

Africa-specific BASE results

base-search.net

A voluminous search engine especially for academic web resources.