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. 

At AfricArXiv, you can share any research output you produce free of charge to make manuscripts, datasets, presentations, posters, code, proposals, and more citable (through a DOI and an open CC BY license) and discoverable, as your work will be indexed in scholarly databases.

To learn more about how to do that go to africarxiv.org/how-to-submit/

In case you were wondering, YES you can still submit your manuscript to a journal, we suggest you choose an Open Access journal either from AJOL or DOAJ. We have compiled a few more resources for journal selection resources at africarxiv.org/open-scholarly-publishing/

Submit your research results

As an African researcher and as a non-African researcher working on African topics you can submit your preprint manuscript, postprint, poster, data set, presentation, or another format in one of the following service platforms we partner with:

tabular data, images, video, presentations, posters, code, book chapters

manuscripts,
posters,
presentations

manuscripts, posters, presentations, audio/visual

manuscripts,
reviews/commentaries,
scholarly definitions

manuscripts

tabular data, images, video, presentations, posters, code, book chapters

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We promote the discoverability of African research by working in accordance with the following principles and recommendations:

African Open Access Principles

The questionnaire: UNESCO Open Science Recommendation - International ...

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

Declaration on Research Assessment
The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance can be downloaded here in summary or fullThe CARE Principles in Spanish - CREA para la Gobernanza de Datos IndigenasThe CARE Principles in Vietnamese - Các nguyên tắc CARE đối với quản trị dữ liệu b…
The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies | Oxford Academic
Committee on Publication Ethics
Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism

COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories
The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure
The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

Schedule a call with our team or contact us at  info@africarxiv.org.

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