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 to catalyze the African Renaissance. 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.
You can submit preprint manuscripts, post-prints, presentations, datasets, and other research result formats with any of our partner repositories. Find out how to do that at info.africarxiv.org/submit/.
We promote the discoverability of African research outcome by working in accordance with the following principles and organisations:
African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories
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The Chatbot Africa & Conversational AI Summit is a virtual conference and exhibition for industry practitioners, adopters of Conversational AI, Chatbots, speech or voice technology, UX design, NLP & Virtual Assistant.
Nicholas Outa, from Maseno University, Kenya, is an aquatic researcher working towards filling research gaps in Freshwater Aquatic Systems, Fish Ecology and Aquaculture.
Our partner repository ScienceOpen has cooperated with the University of South Africa (UNISA) Press to create the preprint server UnisaRxiv. UnisaRxiv will be a forum to facilitate open peer-review of preprint manuscripts and allow for Read more…
Dr. Rania Baleela, from University of Khartoum, Sudan, is a pathogen molecular biologist working towards developing infectious diseases control strategies. This interview explores Dr. Baleela’s research work, experience and her efforts in educating her community in dealing with poisonous and venomous organisms.
Following our participation in the JROST conference 2020, we are honored to share that we were awarded $5,000 for our dedication in advancing openness in research and scholarship across Africa. AfricArXiv is among the eight awardees of the response fund; along with La Referencia - Openscapes - PREreview - sktime - 2i2c - Humanities Commons - Knowledge Equity Lab.
Under the title Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review, ASAPbio has held a design sprint to increase exposure for new and existing ideas for encouraging preprint curation and review. The event was held in collaboration with Read more…
Justin is a WordPress developer with a background in applied statistics. He is strongly interested in open access issues in Africa as well as in the dissemination of knowledge and the means by which it is carried out on the continent. He is a fellow and recently a mentor of the Open Leaders program of the Mozilla Foundation.
Joy is the Founding Director at the Training Centre in Communication, TCC-Africa – the first African-based training centre to teach effective communication skills to scientists. TCC is a Trust, established as a non-profit entity in 2006 and is registered in Kenya.
With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Jo is a trainer and consultant in Open Science Communication and Science Project Management. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label 'Access 2 Perspectives', she aims at strengthening Research on the African continent through Open Science.
Oba is a co-founder at Vilsquare.org. Experienced project manager, and researcher whose work has created new openings for novel business models in sectors such as health, education, construction, legal, vocational, manufacturing, and security & surveillance.
Luke is a software engineer and researcher in next generation technologies including mixed virtual and augmented reality, blockchain platforms and low power air quality sensors. Currently, he is working at the Technical University of Kenya School of Computing & Information Technology.
Ahmed is a medical doctor in Lagos, Nigeria and a health policy scholar at Washington University in St Louis, USA. He is the founder of Open Access Nigeria, an advocacy organization working to promote online access to research, data and educational resources. He was named a Mandela Washington Fellow in 2016 and a Plan S ambassador in 2019.
Preprint manuscripts that were published on AfricArXiv via the Open Science Framework (OSF).
List of repositories within the African continent.
Online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
A platform for rapid publication and open peer review for researchers.
Contextualised search results based on metadata and keywords and tagged with 'Africa'.
A voluminous search engine especially for academic web resources.
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