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.

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

qeios.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

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.

Indigenous Knowledge

AI and Seamless Translation of Research in Official African Languages

“With the advancement of Natural Language Processing (NLP), it should be fairly easy for non-Indonesian [or African] speakers to understand articles written in Indonesian [or African local dialects]. Hence the burden to immediately use English as the main language of science could be lowered.”

Open Access

Announcing #FeedbackASAP by ASAPbio

ASAPbio is partnering with DORA, HHMI, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to host a discussion on creating a culture of constructive public review and feedback on preprints. Read the full ASAPbio announcement and find out how to register for the event and to support preprint review.

Capacity Building

Best Practice and Innovative Approaches to Peer Review

AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview are joining forces to bring together scientists from across Africa and scientists engaged in African-related research for a series of 3 virtual discussions and collaborative peer review.

Announcements

PLOS and TCC Africa Partnering to Support African Researchers

We are excited to share the news that the Open Access publisher PLOS and our partner, the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) are formally collaborating to promote a more inclusive Open Science future.

Announcements

Launch of Translate Science

Translate Science is interested in the translation of scholarly literature. Translate Science is an open volunteer group interested in improving the translation of scientific literature. The group has come together to support work on tools, services and advocate for translating science.