Highlights from the Open Publishing Fest
Earlier this week it was a great pleasure to present AfricArXiv at the Open Publishing Fest to discuss with the participants around the question:
´Why do we need a preprint repository for Africa?
Publishing
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.
Higher Education & Research in Africa – the stakeholders [data set]
We have compiled a list of Higher Education & Research in Africa stakeholders and shared it in xlsx, csv, pdf
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, &
African preprint server creates info hub for coronavirus research
Originally published at researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-africa…/ Grassroots contributions sought to trigger collaborations and share insights The free preprint service AfricArXiv has created
ORCID integrations on OSF, ScienceOpen and Zenodo via AfricArXiv
ORCID and AfricArXiv are collaborating to assist African scientists in advancing their careers through unique identifiers. ORCID supports AfricArXiv and
Strategic partnership with ScienceOpen
ScienceOpen and AfricArXiv are partnering to provide African researchers with accelerated visibility, networking and collaboration opportunities. The research and publishing
Book about the importance of local languages for Research in Africa written in Kinyarwanda
The OAPENbooks Library has its first archive record with a book written in the Rwandan language Kinyarwanda; co-authored by Evode