Enhancing the discoverability of research from and about Africa

For Researchers

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 other research output.

Connect with research communities across Africa and the world.

Join research networks erlevant to your field of expertise and research interest.

For Institutions

Build your institutional digital profile to monitor and maintain the bibliometrics coming from your institution.

Create or optimise with our support your publishing venues and workflows to make them affordable and managable.

AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository.

We partner with affiliate 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. 

Share any research output you produce free of charge to make manuscripts, datasets, presentations, posters, code, proposals, and more citable and discoverable – through a DOI and an open CC BY license.

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:

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

Declaration on Research Assessment

Publication Ethics

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science

Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets

Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication

COAR Community Framework for Good Practices in Repositories

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