09/05/2019
« The African Institute of Open Science & Hardware is here! Our goal is to build capacity and stimulate research around openscience and hardware in the African context. (…) »
19/02/2019
« cOAlition S is pleased to announce the participation of its first African research funder and welcomes the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of Zambia to the coalition. The African…
07/12/2018
« Open Science is becoming increasingly popular globally and provides unprecedented opportunities for scientists in Africa, South East Asia, and Latin America. African scientists face several difficulties when attempting to get…
20/09/2018
« The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), like many other research funders, requires its grantees to make papers available via open access (OA). This article investigates the effect…
07/09/2018
« (…) This document presents a draft strategy and makes the scientific case for the African Open Science Platform (AOSP). It is based on an expert group meeting held in Pretoria…
31/07/2018
« Des richesses cachées de la recherche en Afrique francophone couvrant des décennies de travaux seront publiées en ligne sous peu et gracieusement mises à la disposition du public, après que…
29/06/2018
« A group of open science advocates have launched the first preprint service aimed exclusively at African scientists. AfricArxiv seeks to improve the…
20/02/2018
« Introduction: Open Data and Africa
This introduction outlines the contents of the special collection “Open Data and Africa”, which documents the goals and aspirations associated with Open Data means in…
12/02/2018
« Nous avons rendu disponibles, en libre accès sur internet, les collections de mémoires et de thèses soutenues à l’Université de Bobo Dioulasso et à l’Université de Ouagadougou 1 (Burkina Faso).…
16/11/2017
« Africa’s academy of science has announced that it will launch an open-access publishing platform early next year — the first of its kind aimed exclusively at scientists on the continent.
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