On the 24th of November, 2020 the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published a response to the Data repository Selection Criteria, sharing their concerns and why these criteria will pose a challenge to some researchers and repositories. The representatives from journals, publishers and scholarly communication organisations, FAIRsharing Community came together Read more…
Beyond open access publishing services for its community, AfricArXiv will facilitate more opportunities for rigorous and reproducible practices.
More than two years into our work with AfricArXiv we are glad to present an overview of our work. You find more details and information at Cite as: Ahinon, J. S., Ksibi, N., Havemann, J. et al. (2020, September 25). AfricArXiv – the pan-African Open Scholarly Repository. https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/56p3e As signatories Read more…
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…
What are the new technologies for research quality assessment in academic publishing in the light of Open Science?
Within the Digital Science blog series on SDG-related research, our advisory board member Joy Owango wrote about SDG 4, Quality Education.
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…
We happily celebrated the 2nd anniversary of AfricArXiv in June 2020. AfricArXiv turned two years old of serving as a preprint repository for research work on African topics by African and non-African researchers. It was launched in June 2018 with the aim of promoting and supporting open science and open Read more…
We stand in solidarity with the Black communities in the United States of America – #BlackLivesMatter AfricArXiv exists to address the institutional and systemic challenges and biases in the scholarly publishing system to provide African researchers an explicit platform and support to communicate the work they do on the continent 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…
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