Open Science in Africa – Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives
Justin Ahinon and Jo Havemann, both founders of AfricArXiv, talk in this article about the development of Open Science Services […]
Open Science
The man and the scientific publishing giant
In an attempt to secure and protect unbiased Open Science in Europe our team member, palaeontologist and Open Access activist
The African Open Science Platform: The Future of Science and the Science of the Future
Participants of AfricaParticipants of African Open Science Platform Strategy Workshop, March 2018; Advisory Council, African Open Science Platform Project; Technical
Open Science, Science Communication
Mentoring at Open Science Fellows Program
Towards the end of September, the Open Science Fellows Program will enter its third round at Wikimedia Germany. Once again, 20
African scientists launch their own preprint server
The free, online outlet is one of a growing number where academics on the continent can share their work Smriti
The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service
Charlottesville, VA The Center for Open Science (COS) and AfricArXiv have launched a new preprint service that will advance scientific knowledge in
re:publica 18 session – Towards Lab Equipment as a Common Good
At this year’s re:publica, we had a session on Open Science Hardware. Our focus was on hardware and software solutions, tools
The ethics of copyright transfer for scientific research
On his blog Green Tea and Velociraptors our team colleague Jon Tennant questions the ethics of the widely practiced copyright transfer from
How to make your research Open Access
The infographic shows how to achieve 100% Open Access for free and legally; available on figshare.
Corina Logan: “We can shift academic culture through publishing choices”
Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking them behind paywalls. This discriminates not only against the public (who are usually the ones that paid for the research in the first place), but also against the academics from institutions that cannot afford to pay for journal subscriptions and the ‘scholarly poor’. I explain exploitative and ethical publishing practices, highlighting choices researchers can make right now to stop exploiting ourselves and discriminating against others.