We are pleased to announce that the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and TCC Africa in collaboration with AfricArXiv have signed a partnership agreement focused on strengthening capacity and infrastructure for Open Science in Africa.
Beyond open access publishing services for its community, AfricArXiv will facilitate more opportunities for rigorous and reproducible practices.
Originally published at: africarxiv.pubpub.org Cite as: AfricArXiv (2020). Call to action: COVID-19 Rapid Review. AfricArXiv. Retrieved from https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/pub/24sv5nej As a supporter and signatory of the COVID-19 Publishers Open Letter of Intent for Rapid Review we call upon researchers in Africa and beyond to join the initiative and take action in Read more…
We would like to take a moment to express our gratitude to everyone who contributed in covering the 2020 fee for AfricArXiv’s preprint hosting & maintenance on the Open Science Infrastructure (OSF) provided by the Center for Open Science.
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. AfricArXiv and The African Science Literacy Network (ASLN) are partnering to promote the submission of articles on AfricArXiv and translation of the articles Read more…
The German startup DialogShift and the pan-African cross-disciplinary preprint repository AfricArXiv develop a multilingual chatbot for African citizens, researchers and policy-makers to provide quick answers around COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the world with an incredible force. Most people find it difficult to keep an overview of the current Read more…
Today on 27 April 2020, a group of publishers and scholarly communications organizations announced a joint initiative to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. AfricArXiv fully supports this collaborative approach. Please find below Read more…
An initiative gathers professors of Omdurman Islamic University in Sudan for COVID-19 pandemic mitigation.
PubPub, the open-source collaboration platform built by the Knowledge Futures Group, has partnered with AfricArXiv, the African preprint repository, to host audio/visual preprints. This partnership will enable multimedia submissions around research outputs, including community participation and feedback for and from researchers.
Team members from AfricArXiv have partnered up and are closely collaborating with other organizations like Code for Africa, Vilsquare, African Science Literacy Network, TCC Africa, and Science 4 Africa amongst others to mobilize action from a scientific and Africa-centred angle.Please join us on the following digital tools and communication channels: Read more…
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