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Dissemination of information about best practices and behavioral suggestions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus is provided mostly in […]

Maia Chagas, A.; Molloy, J.; Prieto Godino, L.; Baden, T. Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on […]

OB Sisay urges us to learn from the Western Africa Ebola virus epidemic (2013-2016) and make informed decisions about the COVID-19 outbreak across the continent.

Originally published at researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-africa…/ Grassroots contributions sought to trigger collaborations and share insights The free preprint service AfricArXiv has created […]

Scientists often run three or more highly complex projects in parallel. On top of that, a growing number of publishers […]

What do you think are integral parts of research integrity? What topics are entailed and should be discussed in all […]

Refer to the Wikipedia article 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic or the World Health Organization’s situation reports for most recent reported case information. Protect yourself and […]

The goals of AfricArXiv include fostering community among African researchers, facilitate collaborations between African and non-African researchers, and raise the […]

ORCID and AfricArXiv are collaborating to assist African scientists in advancing their careers through unique identifiers. ORCID supports AfricArXiv and […]

TCC Africa’s Executive Director and AfricArXiv project partner Joy Owango talked to Africa Business Communities about its model, ambitions and the […]

‘Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles’ Nature News, 1 Feb 2020, doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00363-3 This is the headline […]

Back in April 2018, the idea to build an African Open Access repository was born at the first AfricaOSH summit […]

ScienceOpen and AfricArXiv are partnering to provide African researchers with accelerated visibility, networking and collaboration opportunities. The research and publishing […]

The OAPENbooks Library has its first archive record with a book written in the Rwandan language Kinyarwanda; co-authored by Evode […]

In early December 2019, Prof Abukutsu-Onyanko presented her work at the UTC-SPARC Africa Open Access Symposium 2019 Symposium in Cape […]

This blog is cross-posted from ASAPbio and reused under CC-BY 4.0 license. Please add any comments and annotations on the […]

AfricArxiv is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for African research output in the form of a non-profit open source platform for African scientists to upload their working papers, pre-prints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers as well as associated data packages and article versioning. AfricArxiv is dedicated to enhance and open up research and collaboration among African scientists and non-African scientists that work on African topics.

This article was originally published at ela-newsportal.com “Academic Research and knowledge from and about Africa should be freely available to […]

I worry that ‘I don’t know what I don’t know. That is the situation of many students when faced with […]

The following interview was originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu and licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Enjoy the read! Fostering transparency, […]

The following interview was originally published at zbw-mediatalk.eu and licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Enjoy the read! Fostering transparency, […]

The first webinar of the Open Science MOOC focused on Module 5: Open Research Software and Open Source and was pesented […]

A couple of days ago on May 15th in Leipzig, Germany at the Mx Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), […]

Vienna, Austria & Cotonou, Benin Open Knowledge Maps and AfricArXiv are partnering to advance Open Science and Open Access for […]

Since Open Science has become a recurring buzzword for recent meta-scientific developments, this article summarizes what these developments entail. What are the reasons for discussions about Open Access, Open Data and Open Peer Review? Which technological changes can we expect and which impact will they have on society and the research community? 

We proudly announce that AfricArXiv has entered a strategic partnership with the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education […]

Originally published at crastina.se/science-communication-in-africa/. This Crastina Column by Pearl Ihuoma Osirike, Ph.D. Fellow at the University of Ghana, initiates the theme […]

AfricArxiv was presented at the International Open Science Conference (#osc2019) in Berlin, Germany by Jo Havemann on the theme: “What […]

Havemann, Johanna. (2019, February). A Case for Open Science Hardware. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2564076

Justin Ahinon and Jo Havemann (both founders of AfricArXiv) talk in this article about the development of Open Science Services […]

Justin Ahinon and Jo Havemann, both founders of AfricArXiv, talk in this article about the development of Open Science Services […]

Participants of AfricaParticipants of African Open Science Platform Strategy Workshop, March 2018; Advisory Council, African Open Science Platform Project; Technical […]

The free, online outlet is one of a growing number where academics on the continent can share their work Smriti […]

Charlottesville, VA The Center for Open Science (COS) and AfricArXiv have launched a new preprint service that will advance scientific knowledge in […]

At this year’s re:publica, we had a session on Open Science Hardware. Our focus was on hardware and software solutions, tools […]

On his blog Green Tea and Velociraptors our team colleague Jon Tennant questions the ethics of the widely practiced copyright transfer from […]

Tim Blais is the creative everything at A Capella Science and has a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics […]

Our institutional partner TCC Africa offers trainings in Science Communication across the African continent, course topics ranging from proposal writing […]

In a recent SciDevNet article, Ochieng’ Ogodo reported on the discussion outcomes from this year’s Regional Conference on Balanced and Inclusive Education […]

This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. Professor Alfred Orina Isaac is a Pharmaceutical Scientist at Kenya Technical University with […]

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.

Scientists around the world showed their support to the OA-Africa network and joined the ocean acidification day on June 8, 2017. […]

Originally published in naturejobs. The March for Science turned a spotlight on the importance of research. But it won’t have […]

In case you are struggling to name one actual living scientist, here are a few: #actuallivingscientist Tweets !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

This podcast was originally published at PhD Career Stories. If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the […]

In his blog Green Tea and Velociraptors, Jon Tennant describes his approach to writing a peer review […] I remember the first […]

Would you agree that the Digital Age and the Academic Internet are bringing the scientific world closer together? OpenCon is the […]