African scientists launch their own preprint server
The free, online outlet is one of a growing number where academics on the continent can share their work Smriti […]
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The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service
Charlottesville, VA The Center for Open Science (COS) and AfricArXiv have launched a new preprint service that will advance scientific knowledge in
re:publica 18 session – Towards Lab Equipment as a Common Good
At this year’s re:publica, we had a session on Open Science Hardware. Our focus was on hardware and software solutions, tools
The ethics of copyright transfer for scientific research
On his blog Green Tea and Velociraptors our team colleague Jon Tennant questions the ethics of the widely practiced copyright transfer from
Digital Tools, Perspectives (blog), Science Communication
A Capella Science
Tim Blais is the creative everything at A Capella Science and has a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
TCC Africa training experience
Our institutional partner TCC Africa offers trainings in Science Communication across the African continent, course topics ranging from proposal writing
Moving forward: Research in Africa
In a recent SciDevNet article, Ochieng’ Ogodo reported on the discussion outcomes from this year’s Regional Conference on Balanced and Inclusive Education
Brain research in Kenya
This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. Professor Alfred Orina Isaac is a Pharmaceutical Scientist at Kenya Technical University with
Corina Logan: “We can shift academic culture through publishing choices”
Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking them behind paywalls. This discriminates not only against the public (who are usually the ones that paid for the research in the first place), but also against the academics from institutions that cannot afford to pay for journal subscriptions and the ‘scholarly poor’. I explain exploitative and ethical publishing practices, highlighting choices researchers can make right now to stop exploiting ourselves and discriminating against others.
Ocean Acidification Africa
Scientists around the world showed their support to the OA-Africa network and joined the ocean acidification day on June 8, 2017.