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 […]
Scholarly Publishing
Institutional access to open and affordable educational resources – A conversation with Tom Mosterd
In this episode, Tom Mosterd – co-founder of Sylla, talks about his journey in the open-access movement and the vision
A New Guide for Publishers to Collaborate with Early Career Researchers
In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly communication, publishers are increasingly exploring new ways to keep pace with advancements in open access, open data, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. A new research article, Collaborating with Early Career Researchers to Enhance the Future of Scholarly Communication: A Guide for Publishers, dives into how publishers can engage with early career researchers (ECRs) to shape a more innovative, fair, and inclusive publishing ecosystem.
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.
London Book Fair 2024: challenges for publishers
I went to London with a purpose. It’s always good to meet collaborators and friends, but I had other goals with my visit. You see, it’s never good when the decisions that impact us are arrived at without our input.
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.
Biases in scholarly publishing
In a perfect world, it shouldn’t matter where researchers publish. And if you happen to be on some editorial board
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
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.
AfricArXiv, Diamond Open Access, Sustainability & Funding
Presentation held at the II DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE, October 25 – 26, 2023. Toluca, Mexico