AfricArXiv – The pan-African Open Access portal

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.

Save your seat for an inquiry session below with our team or contact us at info@africarxiv.org.

Explore accepted submissions on the following repositories:

africarxiv.pubpub.org

scienceopen.com/collection/africarxiv

zenodo.org/communities/africarxiv/

osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/

africarxiv.figshare.com

Submit your own work

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

FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship can be accessed here

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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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 citeable and apply a CC-BY license

Promote Open Scholarship, Open Source and Open Standards

News about Open Access in Africa

Language Diversity

Fostering Multilingualism in African Scholarship Through Digital Tools

There are several initiatives to foster African languages in schools and also universities such as African languages studies, natural language processing, and translations among others. Here is Chido Dzinotyiwei who is making it easier to learn indigenous African languages through her initiative, Vambo academy. Chido is a Master of Commerce student at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB).

Announcements

New Dawn for African Researchers as TCC Africa and AfricArXiv Announce Formal Collaboration

The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), based at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and the pan-African Open Access portal AfricArXiv herewith announce our formal collaboration agreement with the objective of creating a long-term strategic and sustainable approach to building and managing an international scholarly community that will enrich the visibility of African research.

Announcements

African Perspectives On Peer Review: A Roundtable Discussion

AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview are pleased to host a 60-minute long roundtable discussion, bringing African perspectives to the global conversation around this years’ Peer Review Week’s theme, “Identity in Peer Review”. Together with a multidisciplinary panel of African editors, reviewers and early-career researchers, we will explore the shifting identities of researchers in the African continent, from the dominant perspective that sees them as consumers of knowledge produced in other contexts to researchers who are actively engaged in scholarly peer review. We will strive to create a safe space for reflection around issues of scholarly knowledge decolonization, bias in peer review, and open transformative peer review practices.

Announcements

African languages to get more bespoke scientific terms

Decolonise Science will employ translators to work on papers from AfricArXiv for which the first author is African, says principal investigator Jade Abbott, a machine-learning specialist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Words that do not have an equivalent in the target language will be flagged so that terminology specialists and science communicators can develop new terms. “It is not like translating a book, where the words might exist,” Abbott says. “This is a terminology-creating exercise.”

Decolonise Science, Call for submissions

Announcements

Call for Submissions, Decolonise Science

The team at AfricArXiv is proud to announce that we are partnering with Masakhane to build a multilingual parallel corpus of African research from translations of research manuscripts submitted to AfricArXiv. Of the articles submitted, the teams at Masakhane and AfricArXiv will select up to 180 in total for translation.

Open Access

Five Reasons Why You Should Submit to AfricArXiv

By submitting your work through us to any of our partner repository services African scientists of any discipline can present their research findings and connect with other researchers on the African continent and globally free of charge. All our partner repositories assign a DOI (digital object identifier) and an open scholarly license (usually CC-BY 4.0) to your work ensuring discoverability in research databases through the Crossref indexing service.

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.