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 Academy of Sciences (AAS) has also expressed crucial support to Plan S. (…) »
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 their work published in peer-reviewed journals – there is a small number of publication platforms, a lack of knowledge and…
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 of publishing in OA journals and international collaboration within and between European and sub-Saharan African countries on citation impact and…
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 on 27-28 March 2018. Its purpose is to act as a framework for detailed, work on the creation of the…
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 les instituts de recherche de la région auront accepté de lancer des archives communes, le Dépôt institutionnel…
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 visibility of African science by helping academics share their work quickly (…)
The platform will be hosted on the Open…
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 Africa today: what opportunities they offer, what challenges they pose and what the implications follow from the increasing political and…
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). L’analyse des données de consultation (« fichiers de log » présents sur le serveur hôte) permet de produire plusieurs indicateurs concernant l’impact…
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.
The platform, called AAS Open Research and announced by the Kenya-based African Academy of Sciences on 15…