HAL, the French national open archive within the global Open Science ecosystem, an African perspective
We hosted Bénédicte Kuntziger as our guest in this session. Bénédicte is the support, trainer, and community engagement lead at […]
Building a Trustworthy Research Environment: Challenges and Solutions to Predatory Publishing
Susan Veldsman, the Director of the Scholarly Publication Unit at the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), spoke on
The Role of COAR in Advancing Open Access in Africa
The Executive Director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Kathleen Shearer, shared insights on how COAR supports open
Empowering African Researchers: Building Data and Coding Skills with The Carpentries
Angelique Trusler, community manager at The Carpentries in Africa, shared insights on how researchers can start their data and coding
Open Peer Review, Collaborative Preprint Review and Opportunities to Learn and Teach Others
This session’s discussion centered on the benefits of open peer review and how researchers can work together to review preprints. Vanessa Fairhurst and Chad Sansing from PREreview also shared opportunities for learning and teaching within the research community.
Diamond Open Access Publishing in Africa
Iryna Kuchma, the manager of EIFL Open Access Programme (EIFL-OA), was a guest in a recent webinar, where she was
Automating workflows and providing academic credit to data curators for F.A.I.R. research data archiving.
We were joined in this session by Sonia Barbosa, Associate Director of Dataverse Support, who shared her expertise on streamlining
A Research Funder’s Open Access Policy
We were joined in this session by Ashley Farley from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who shared insights into
Investing in African Open Infrastructure
Jerry Sellanga, the Engagement Coordinator at Invest in Open Infrastructure, joined us as a guest in this webinar session, and
Data sharing best practices for researchers and institutions working with AfricArXiv
We were honored to have Maria Guerreiro and Sarah Lippincott of Dryad as our guest speakers in this session, and