Special Edition Newsletter • Week 51/2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter. With our weekly news, we share with you insights and guidance for […]
Announcements
ScienceOS and Access-2-Perspectives form partnership
We are glad to announce our strategic partnership with ScienceOS, an AI-powered research platform committed to transparent and researcher-controlled workflows. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in our mission to promote more equitable, transparent, and context-aware research practices globally.
UbuntuNet Alliance Awarded IOI Grant to Strengthen Open Institutional Repositories Across Eastern and Southern Africa
Big news for our community! We are proud to see this impactful development in strengthening Open Institutional Repositories across Eastern
Survey Announcement: Online Privacy and Identity Verification
VeriMe is inviting researchers worldwide to share their experiences with online privacy and identity verification. The short 5-minute survey collects
Announcement of the *Visualise Your Thesis* Winners 2025
It was a great honor and pleasure to watch all excellent entries and of course a difficult task to discuss and agree on the winners. Please make sure to explore all entries yourself as well to learn about the outstanding research and scicomm skills the students put their time and effort towards ❤️✨💫🎓🔬📚
Website & UX Designer for our Website Redesign (Temporary Project)
Are you a creative web designer with a passion for meaningful impact? Do you care deeply about user experience and
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.
Webinar: Building community to leverage African scholarship and increase the visibility of African research expertise
Aphrike Research and AfricArXiv are thrilled to invite you to our first joint webinar on Building Community to Leverage African Scholarship and Increase the Visibility
Lanfrica and AfricArXiv Announce Strategic Partnership
of African language resources in Africa including initiatives related to natural language processing and indigenous language dissemination.
A Researcher’s Guide to Understanding Metadata Integration in Increasing Discoverability of African Research
borate to increase awareness of supporting discoverability in Africa through metadata and integrations between repositories and indexing platforms.