Our partner organization Vilsquare (Nigeria) has developed a professional, low-cost and portable microscope to help students, teachers and researchers remain curious and excited about learning science while they are at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. For students at home, the Volt Microscope can be used to connect classroom theory with Read more…
UPDATE as of May 11, 2020: Amicable ending of the collaboration between CfA and AfricArXiv After careful consideration and discussion with the board, we as AfricArXiv have opted to amicably end our collaboration with Code for Africa. We opt to focus on other activities and hopefully look at new initiatives Read more…
Collecting resources from and for all levels of African societies to coordinate COVID19-responses by African organizations and influencers Thousands of individuals and hundreds of grassroots and international organisations, CBOs, NPOs, governmental and industrial are working hard to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on the African continent. We are not 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…
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…
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…
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…
English
Afrikaans
አማርኛ
العربية
Chichewa
Français
Deutsch
Harshen Hausa
हिन्दी
Igbo
Malagasy
Português
Sesotho
Afsoomaali
Basa Sunda
Kiswahili
isiXhosa
Yorùbá
Zulu