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Call for submissions: Share your COVID-19 relevenat research #OpenAccess

Researchers Global crowdsourced content by scientists: http://crowdfightcovid19.org/ AfricArXiv is working towards building an Africa-owned preprint repository and is reaching out to and discussing with various other organizations and partners. Meanwhile, we are partnering with the established preprint repository providers Open Science Framework (OSF) – ScienceOpen and Zenodo. Submit any COVID-19 relevant Read more…

By Jo Havemann, 2 years1 year ago

Open Access

ASAPbio/COAR Survey about Preprint Sharing in Repositories

Our partners at COAR and ASAPbio are conducting a survey of preprint sharing in institutional and other generalist repositories. ASAPbio and COAR are inviting institutional and other generalist repositories to fill in this survey about preprint sharing in repositories. The aggregate results of the survey will be made publicly available Read more…

By Jo Havemann, 2 years1 year ago

Open Access

Multilingualism Week Conference 2022

The 6th edition of the Multilingualism Week Conference commences from the 28th to the 30th of September. This is a one-of-a-kind event that brings together language enthusiasts, students, and professionals to network and discuss relevant language industry subjects.It features 3 days of practical and impactful talks including one from our partner Chris Emezue Read more…

By Jo Havemann, 2 years2 years ago

Open Access

Summary of the Q&A session on Aug 25

As recently announced, we are holding weekly Q&A sessions with Access 2 Perspectives, every Thursday at 3 pm UTC+2. You are most welcome to register and ask anything about Open Science and research project management. Register at bit.ly/a2p-free-weekly-QandA to receive weekly reminders for each session. Here is a summary from Read more…

By Kinya, 2 years2 years ago

Open Access

Free weekly Q&A session every Thursday

Join us for our FREE weekly Q&A session (60 minutes) at 3 pm UTC+2 until the end of 2022

By Jo Havemann, 2 years2 years ago

Announcements

239 articles describing African languages indexed in the Lanfrica database

We are glad to announce that 239 articles describing African languages have successfully been included into Lanfrica and can all be accessed at https://lanfrica.com/records?tag=africarxiv.

By Team AfricArXiv, 2 years1 year ago

Open Access

ASAPbio Announcing Publish Your Reviews

At AfricArXiv, we are proud supporters and endorsers of the ‘Publish Your Reviews’ campaign by ASAPbio.

By Team AfricArXiv, 2 years1 year ago

Open Access

VAD Conference 2022: AfricArXiv Providing Reciprocal Discoverability of African Research Content

AfricArXiv was represented at the VAD conference 2022 in Freiburg, Germany, organized by the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) conference focused on the theme of African Europe, reciprocal perspectives and it addressed processes of co-production of knowledge as well as the mutual questioning of different ways. of thinking. African Read more…

By Johanssen Obanda, 3 years1 year ago

Open Access

Deafness and Academia – A conversation with Wangari Joyce Ngugi

Following up on our previous episode with Joyce Wangari Nugi, in which we talked about Holistic wellness and mental health in research careers, this episode is about Wangari’s work for the deaf community and deafness in academia. We are joined by N’kadziri Aminah Idd, who facilitates sign language interpretation throughout Read more…

By Kinya, 3 years2 years ago

Open Access

Press release: COVID-19 research freely accessible, but research data sharing and preprinting are low

Link: https://oaspa.org/press-release-covid-19-research-freely-accessible-but-research-data-sharing-and-preprinting-are-low/?utm_source=OASPA+News&utm_campaign=c8ed423dc0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_12_06_05_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_457662dc26-c8ed423dc0-529660149 Preprints and other research publications in line with Covid19 information are still low in Africa despite the increasing global Open Access sites for researchers. At AfricArXiv, we are a pan African based platform curating and facilitating the publication of all Covid19 related research articles and preprints via our Read more…

By Johanssen Obanda, 3 years1 year ago