For nearly a decade, AfricArXiv has been designed and managed to improve the visibility, accessibility, and preservation of African research and scholarly outputs. Throughout this journey, one lesson has become increasingly clear: sustainable open infrastructure must be owned and governed by the communities it serves.
Earlier this year at the 3rd Global Diamond Open Access Summit, I met Ablaz Mohammed Schemnad, a young, highly dedicated,
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter. With our weekly news, we share with you insights and guidance for
When we started our Open Science training with librarians, we kept coming back to one powerful statement that laid the
In this week’s issue, we reflect on our time at UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where we facilitated the Open
Sergio Santamarina works as a librarian at a public university in Argentina, and has a focus on open science practices and challenges in Latin America. Together with Jo, he explores issues around open access publishing requirements, the cost barriers for obtaining Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in Latin American universities, and the importance of decentralized networks and persistent identifiers in research.
In this episode, Tom Mosterd – co-founder of Sylla, talks about his journey in the open-access movement and the vision
Dr Friederike Rohde is a sustainability researcher with a background in science and technology studies. She is committed to the
This year, we are glad to offer a range of courses specifically designed for researchers and professionals in globally inclusive academic environments.
The 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access took place a couple of weeks ago in Cape Town, South Africa.
