AfricArXiv turned 2
We happily celebrated the 2nd anniversary of AfricArXiv in June 2020. AfricArXiv turned two years old of serving as a […]
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Black Lives Matter
We stand in solidarity with the Black communities in the United States of America – #BlackLivesMatter AfricArXiv exists to address
AfricArXiv, COVID-19, Open Access, Perspectives (blog)
Collaboration of Sudanese academic and health institutes to confront COVID-19 spread
The original post is available at https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1095949130738015&id=698072480525684 Photos by: Staff and students of faculty of pharmacy, university of Gezira In
Scholarly publishers are working together to maximize efficiency during COVID-19 pandemic
Today on 27 April 2020, a group of publishers and scholarly communications organizations announced a joint initiative to maximize the
Knowledge Futures Group and AfricArXiv launch Audio/Visual Preprint Repository on PubPub
PubPub, the open-source collaboration platform built by the Knowledge Futures Group, has partnered with AfricArXiv, the African preprint repository, to host audio/visual preprints. This partnership will enable multimedia submissions around research outputs, including community participation and feedback for and from researchers.
Hoarding in science, no thanks. Openness and transparency in crisis mode and beyond
During the current SARS-COV-2 pandemic, the scientific approach is ostensibly unable to keep up with the rapid pace at which
Perspectives on Open Science and Inequity: Who is left behind?
[originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu] Due to precautionary measures in regard to the coronavirus, the second day of this year’s Open
Harnessing the Open Science infrastructure for an efficient African response to COVID-19 [preprint]
Cite as: Havemann, Jo, Bezuidenhout, Louise, Achampong, Joyce, Akligoh, Harry, Ayodele, Obasegun, Hussein, Shaukatali, … Wenzelmann, Victoria. (2020). Harnessing the
African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape
View this project on Github: Authors & Contributors in alphabetical orderBezuidenhout, Louise, Havemann, Jo, Kitchen, Stephanie, De Mutiis, Anna, &
Q&A around COVID-19 in regional African languages
Dissemination of information about best practices and behavioral suggestions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus is provided mostly in