Newsletter • Week 46/2025
In this week’s edition, we briefly explore resilience in times of crises, highlighting how Open Science can withstand geopolitical pressures […]
Event
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
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.
African Perspectives On Peer Review: A Roundtable Discussion
AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview are pleased to host a 60-minute long roundtable discussion, bringing African perspectives to the global conversation around this years’ Peer Review Week’s theme, “Identity in Peer Review”. Together with a multidisciplinary panel of African editors, reviewers and early-career researchers, we will explore the shifting identities of researchers in the African continent, from the dominant perspective that sees them as consumers of knowledge produced in other contexts to researchers who are actively engaged in scholarly peer review. We will strive to create a safe space for reflection around issues of scholarly knowledge decolonization, bias in peer review, and open transformative peer review practices.
Join us at the Chatbot Africa & Conversational AI Summit
The Chatbot Africa & Conversational AI Summit is a virtual conference and exhibition for industry practitioners, adopters of Conversational AI, Chatbots, speech or voice technology, UX design, NLP & Virtual Assistant.
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.
Rapid and Open Peer Review
What are the new technologies for research quality assessment in academic publishing in the light of Open Science?
Highlights from the Open Publishing Fest
Earlier this week it was a great pleasure to present AfricArXiv at the Open Publishing Fest to discuss with the participants around the question:
´Why do we need a preprint repository for Africa?
TCC Africa offering online trainings
Training Centre in Communication has started offering courses online. Ms. Joy Owango, the Executive Director commented that This was part
AfricaOSH summit 2020
Back in April 2018, the idea to build an African Open Access repository was born at the first AfricaOSH summit