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 […]
Open Science Webinar Series
From Research to Real-World Policy: Lessons from Overton’s Journey
How does academic research find its way into government policies, global reports, or public debates? That question sits at the heart of Overton — the world’s largest database of public policy documents. Euan Adie, Overton’s founder, shared the platform’s origin story, its unique role in mapping research-policy connections, and valuable advice for researchers — especially in Africa — aiming to boost their policy impact.
Enhancing Research Visibility in Africa: Leveraging DOAJ for Open Access Publishing
Ina Smith, the Planning Manager, Scholarly Publishing Unit, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), & DOAJ Ambassador for Southern
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
Advocating for Preprint Sharing in Rwanda
Dine Roseline Dzekem is a public health professional and social scientist. She is also the founder of the Rwanda Preprint
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
Exploring the Openness of Global Research Landscapes: The COKI Open Access Dashboard
Kathryn Napier and Lucy Montgomery joined us in this webinar session to talk about how The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative