ScienceOpen and AfricArXiv are partnering to provide African researchers with accelerated visibility, networking and collaboration opportunities. The research and publishing platform ScienceOpen provides services and features relevant for publishers, institutions and researchers alike, including content hosting, context building, as well as discoverability features. We are very excited to partner with Read more…
The OAPENbooks Library has its first archive record with a book written in the Rwandan language Kinyarwanda; co-authored by Evode Mukama and Laurent Nkusi and published by the South African Open Access publisher African Minds. In August 2018, we launched AfricArXiv to foster language diversity and science communication in traditional Read more…
In early December 2019, Prof Abukutsu-Onyanko presented her work at the UTC-SPARC Africa Open Access Symposium 2019 Symposium in Cape Town, South Africa. View the presentation on Zenodo: About ten years ago, Leslie Chan interviewed Prof. Mary Abukutsa about her work as a scientist in Agriculture for Food Security and Read more…
This blog is cross-posted from ASAPbio and reused under CC-BY 4.0 license. Please add any comments and annotations on the original post at asapbio.org/force2019-preprints-vision-dinner. Following a panel discussion about “Who will influence the success of preprints in biology and to what end?” at FORCE2019 (summarised here), we continued the discussion Read more…
This article was originally published at ela-newsportal.com “Academic Research and knowledge from and about Africa should be freely available to all who wish to access, use or reuse it while at the same time being protected from misuse and misappropriation.” This is the first out of “Ten African Principles for Read more…
The following interview was originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu and licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Enjoy the read! Fostering transparency, open access and global dialogue in research are crucial to deal with local as well as with global challenges like the ongoing climate change. Practiced open science allows for more Read more…
Vienna, Austria & Cotonou, Benin Open Knowledge Maps and AfricArXiv are partnering to advance Open Science and Open Access for African researchers and across the African continent. Peter Kraker, founder of Open Knowledge Maps, says: “At Open Knowledge Maps, our goal is that everyone can benefit from scientific knowledge, regardless Read more…
We proudly announce that AfricArXiv has entered a strategic partnership with the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE) – the independent research institute dedicated to improve the quality of science, science education, and quality of life for scientists, students and their families. IGDORE is committed to open Read more…
Originally published at crastina.se/science-communication-in-africa/. This Crastina Column by Pearl Ihuoma Osirike, Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Ghana, initiates the theme ”SciComm in Africa” at the crastina.org website. It is my strong belief that scientific output should not be published only in scientific journals for the learned few but should be Read more…
AfricArxiv was presented at the International Open Science Conference (#osc2019) in Berlin, Germany by Jo Havemann on the theme: “What role can Open Science play in enabling South-North dialogues?“ Preceding the conference was the Barcamp Open Science (#oscibar) – where we hosted a session about the importance of language diversity Read more…
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