Newsletter • Week 48/2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of our newsletter! We are a training and consulting organization for globally inclusive research and science […]
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UbuntuNet Alliance Awarded IOI Grant to Strengthen Open Institutional Repositories Across Eastern and Southern Africa
Big news for our community! We are proud to see this impactful development in strengthening Open Institutional Repositories across Eastern
Newsletter • Week 45/2025
In this week’s issue, we reflect on our time at UbuntuNet-Connect 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe, where we facilitated the Open
Newsletter • Week 44/2025
This edition features a recap of our 2023 and 2024 Open Science workshops in Uganda and Tanzania, as we prepare
Identifiers and Inequality: Reassessing PIDs Through a Global Equity Lens
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.
AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series: A Year in Review
AfricArXiv, a free digital archive for African research, has played a pivotal role in advancing open science on the continent. Established in 2018 and hosted by UbuntuNet Alliance since 2023, the platform is being tailored towards meeting the needs of African researchers, leveraging the Alliance’s extensive network.
Hot off the press: Digital Library Services for Open Scholarship
🗞️🌶️: 🔓 🎓 Find and/or contribute to a curated list of useful resources that can enhance a university library website,
Open Science and Scholars at Risk
How can OS help to give harbour to scholars during a crisis?
A session summary from this year’s Open Science Barcamp held in Potsdam, Germany.
Open Science workshop in Zambia
We were enormously honored to deliver a workshop on Open Science, Open Data and Open Repositories to librarians at the 2024 Zambia Research and Education Network (ZAMREN) Week & Annual General Meeting.
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