Originally published at researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-africa…/ Grassroots contributions sought to trigger collaborations and share insights The free preprint service AfricArXiv has created an information hub where scientists and others can add information about the novel coronavirus to help coordinate the continent’s response. AfricArXiv has created a Google doc and a Github repository Read more…
The goals of AfricArXiv include fostering community among African researchers, facilitate collaborations between African and non-African researchers, and raise the profile of African research on the international stage. These goals align with the goals of a different organization, the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA). This post describes how these goals align Read more…
ORCID and AfricArXiv are collaborating to assist African scientists in advancing their careers through unique identifiers. ORCID supports AfricArXiv and encourages African scientists – and non-African scientists who work on African topics – to share their research output in an Open Access repository, journal or on other freely accessible digital Read more…
‘Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles’ Nature News, 1 Feb 2020, doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00363-3 This is the headline of yesterday’s Nature News article that addressed the OSF service fees. AfricArXiv is here to stay! We are continuing our services throughout 2020 and are working on a roadmap and Read more…
Back in April 2018, the idea to build an African Open Access repository was born at the first AfricaOSH summit in Kumasi, Ghana. The launch was covered a.o. in English by Nature Index, Quartz Africa, AuthorAID, and in French by Afro Tribune and Courrier International. We are proud to announce, 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…
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