Call for African Marine Researchers
Ocean Acidification Africa (OA-Africa) is a pan-African network specifically convened to coordinate and promote ocean acidification (OA) awareness and research in Africa.
Successful campaign: OSF preprint hosting & maintenance
We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the AfricArXiv hosting and maintenance on the Open Science Framework (OSF).
AfricArXiv, Announcements, Open Access, Perspectives (blog)
Job opportunity: Frontend developer for a Funding Observatory
As a frontend developer or tech-savvy person with experience in the same, you are cordially invited to contribute to finalizing
A podcast: Making African Science Visible
The AfricArXiv team contributed to the third episode of Code for Thought, a podcast on ‘software, engineering, research and anything in between’ created by Peter Schmidt of the Society of Research Software Engineering.
ScienceOpen and the University of South Africa Press launch the preprint server UnisaRxiv
Our partner repository ScienceOpen has cooperated with the University of South Africa (UNISA) Press to create the preprint server UnisaRxiv.
Interview with Rania Mohamed of University of Khartoum, Sudan
Dr. Rania Baleela, from University of Khartoum, Sudan, is a pathogen molecular biologist working towards developing infectious diseases control strategies. This interview explores Dr. Baleela’s research work, experience and her efforts in educating her community in dealing with poisonous and venomous organisms.
AfricArXiv receives JROST Rapid Response Award
Following our participation in the JROST conference 2020, we are honored to share that we were awarded $5,000 for our dedication in advancing openness in research and scholarship across Africa. AfricArXiv is among the eight awardees of the response fund; along with La Referencia – Openscapes – PREreview – sktime – 2i2c – Humanities Commons – Knowledge Equity Lab.
TCC Africa & AfricArXiv win at ASAPbio sprint
Under the title Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review, ASAPbio has held a design sprint to increase exposure for new and
AfricArXiv supports COAR on their Input to “Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter”
On the 24th of November, 2020 the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) published a response to the Data repository Selection
AfricArXiv supports the virtual Chatbot Africa & Conversational AI Summit 2021
The summit will cover applications of Conversational AI, Chatbots, Voice, Virtual Assistants, and Conversation Design in a variety of sectors. The focus is on how companies are using chatbots and conversational AI to decrease costs and increase revenues and explore latest trends, use cases, and get a behind the scene look at what is working best.