Digital Tools
Tools to help you accelerate your research (open source)
Presented to you by Veronica Espinoza, explore eight open-access tools (web-based) that will help you accelerate your research process.
AfricArXiv
Open Science session in Kenya for SGCI-funded researchers
Last week, the National Research Fund Kenya hosted the ‘Science Granting Councils Initiative 2023 Annual Forum and Global Research Council Meeting‘. The 5-day programme held space for an Academic Symposium, co-hosted with the Africa Open Science Platform (AOSP), which offered an opportunity to highlight projects funded by NRF Kenya and Read more…
Open Access
Can it please be easy to call for Peace?
Here are 15,438 scholarly works on #peacebuilding: lens.org/lens/search/scholar/list?q=peacebuilding 645 of these are open access and licensed as CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA: https://www.lens.org/lens/search/scholar/…
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Open Science workshop for Librarians
UbuntuNet Alliance under the AfricaConnect3 project invited 20 librarians to participate in a one-day Open Science training session a day before the UbuntuNet Connect 2023 Conference.
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AfricArXiv, Diamond Open Access, Sustainability & Funding
Presentation held at the II DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE, October 25 – 26, 2023. Toluca, Mexico
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SDG indicator codes as metadata in institutional repositories and scholarly indexing systems
To encourage scholarly publishing venues and research institutions to adopt the SDG indicator taxonomy for solution-oriented research output that allows for direct application to societal and environmental interventions to mitigate climate change, forced migration, war and conflict, and other existential crises of our times.
Conversations (podcast)
Neuroscience for all: building global research capacity
As part of the IBRO World Congress 2023 (9-13 September – Granada, Spain), the ALBA Network and the IBRO Early Career Committee partnered to facilitate a wide-ranging discussion of what neuroscientists can do as a community to build research capacity in the Global South, and how this increase in local capacities for research and innovation can, in the broader picture, bring benefits to us all.
Career Development
Promoting Open Peer Review and Preprint Adoption in Africa
Presentation held at the OASPA 2023 Conference during the panel Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends. Aurelia Munene and Jo Havemann contributed with an African perspective to this year’s OASPA conference panel: Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends. The slides are available Read more…
AfricArXiv
Sustainability, Research, and Innovation – the Open Science panel at the SRI Africa Satellite event
At the #SRI2023 Africa satellite event, Dr Jo Havemann contributed to the Open Science panel that was organised by the African Open Science Platform (AOSP) on June 21, 2023, alongside Dr Ana Persic (UNESCO), Dr Thandi Mgwebi (Research Department at Nelson Mandela University), Dr Erica key (Director, Future Earth), and Read more…
Mapping OS Resources
Mapping Open Science Resources from Around the World by Discipline
With Open Science being pretty much a mainstream term nowadays and with an ever-increasing number of digital tools, national policies, research community standards, and funder requirements available, many researchers seem to still be stuck in the publish and/or perish paradigm due to (too) slowly changing institutional policies and individual habits.