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. 

Explore accepted submissions on the following repositories:

africarxiv.pubpub.org

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scienceopen.com/collection/africarxiv

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zenodo.org/communities/africarxiv/

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osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/

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africarxiv.figshare.com

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qeios.com

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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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AfricArXiv receives JROST Rapid Response Award

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.

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AfricArXiv preprints on OSF

AfricArXiv preprints on OSF

osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/

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

Digital Research Repositories

Digital Research Repositories

internationalafricaninstitute.org

List of repositories within the African continent.

African Journals Online

African Journals Online

ajol.info

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

AAS Open Research

AAS Open Research

aasopenresearch.org

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

'Africa' Open Knowledge Map

'Africa' Open Knowledge Map

openknowledgemaps.org

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

Africa-specific BASE results

Africa-specific BASE results

base-search.net

A voluminous search engine especially for academic web resources.

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