The University World News released a report titled Study highlights concern about publishing practices, expressing the challenges that are faced by Sub-Saharan African researchers that consequently lead to few peer-reviewed articles published in the online publishing industry from the African continent.
AfricArXiv is working in collaboration with Open Knowledge Maps to increase the visibility of African research. In the midst of
AfricArXiv is contributing to decolonisation by promoting an understanding of decolonisation through preprints; accepting preprint submission in both lingua-franca and native languages, and enabling ownership of African research by Africans through establishing of a decentralized, Africa-owned digital repository for the African continent.
Ocean Acidification Africa (OA-Africa) is a pan-African network specifically convened to coordinate and promote ocean acidification (OA) awareness and research in Africa.
We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the AfricArXiv hosting and maintenance on the Open Science Framework (OSF).
The Open Science Pie visualizes eight (8) important pieces of Open Science that can easily be implemented by any researcher to foster transparent, reproducible, and efficient research practices.
As a frontend developer or tech-savvy person with experience in the same, you are cordially invited to contribute to finalizing
The AfricArXiv team contributed to the third episode of Code for Thought, a podcast on ‘software, engineering, research and anything in between’ created by Peter Schmidt of the Society of Research Software Engineering.
Our partner repository ScienceOpen has cooperated with the University of South Africa (UNISA) Press to create the preprint server UnisaRxiv.
Dr. Rania Baleela, from University of Khartoum, Sudan, is a pathogen molecular biologist working towards developing infectious diseases control strategies. This interview explores Dr. Baleela’s research work, experience and her efforts in educating her community in dealing with poisonous and venomous organisms.
