Jo Havemann

"Launching audio/visual preprints takes scholarly communication to the next level - giving scientists the multimedia platform to express their expertise not only in text but truly engaging with other researchers."

Short description on how to add and edit scholarly citable multimedia content in AfricArXiv pubpub repository.

Translation Systems for Global Knowledge Justice - a workshop to bring together people working on translation systems in Open Science. The purpose is to have an initial brainstorming session as a foundation of later work to create a getting started guide to translation systems.

What are the new technologies for research quality assessment in academic publishing in the light of Open Science? A webinar contribution to Peer Review Week 2020 organised by TCC Africa and AfricArXiv

The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), based at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and the pan-African Open Access portal AfricArXiv herewith announce our formal collaboration agreement.

TCC Africa webinar

AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview joined forces to bring together scientists from across Africa and scientists engaged in African-related research for a round table discussion on peer review.

Progress reports for AfricArXiv team members

AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview have joined forces to bring together scientists from across Africa and scientists engaged in African-related research for a series of 3 virtual discussions and collaborative peer review.

Webinar by Africa Open Science Hardware

An AfricaOSH | AfricArXiv webinar.

Overview of our activities and accomplishments in 2021

Overview of our activities and accomplishments from the launch in June 2018 until Dec 2020

A conversation about the importance of reforming research assessment and the potential of open science to transform research to become less competition-based and more cooperation-based.

AfricArXiv's planned activities, initiatives ad projects to foster a self-sustaining scholarly publishing landscape across Africa

A conversation with Joyce Kao, Devmini Moonamale, and Harini Lakshminarayanan about building an ecosystem for open life science with early career researchers

A conversation with Vinodh Ilangovan and Jennifer D'Souza

A conversation with Jan Heidelberger about sustainable lab best practice, grass-root science organisations and everything in between

A conversation with Karen Stroobants and Noemie Aubert-Bonn

Enabling the adoption of Open Science practices for all researchers

A conversation with Victor Venema, Danny Chan and Jennifer Miller

A conversation with Sara Hefty

A conversation with Natira McDermott

A conversation with Ludmilla Figueiredo (part 2)

A conversation with Ludmilla Figueiredo (part 1)

A conversation with Anna Picco-Schwendener and Suzanna Marazza (part 1)

A conversation with Anna Picco-Schwendener and Suzanna Marazza (part 2)

A conversation with Joy Owango

A conversation with Zoë Mullan

A conversation with Richard Jefferson (part 1)

A conversation with Richard Jefferson (part 2)

A conversation with Hendrik Huthoff (part 2)

A conversation with Hendrik Huthoff (part 1)

A conversation with Erzsebet Toth-Czifra

AfricArXiv's planned activities, initiatives ad projects to foster a self-sustaining scholarly publishing landscape across Africa

A conversation with Farah Hussain

A conversation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022

A conversation with Stefan Skupien

A conversation with Jo Cowper

A conversation with Gareth Dyke

A conversation with Chris Emezue

A conversation with Avi Staiman

A conversation with Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt about the importance of sustainability and how to start a sustainable lab 

A conversation with Özgün Ünver

A conversation with Richard Poynder about the complexity of the open-access landscape and the need for ongoing discussion and collaboration.

A conversation with Adam Hyde on sustainable and open-source infrastructure for scholarly publishing

A conversation with Julie Wren

A conversation with Kate Thorpe

A conversation with Paola Masuzzo

A conversation with Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman

A conversation with Nici Pfeiffer

A conversation with Marieke Schoenmaker

A conversation with Hugues Abriel

A conversation with Rebecca Kennison, Simone Sacchi, and Chris Long

A conversation with Martin Delahunty

A conversation with Wangari Joyce Ngugi

A conversation with Danny Chan

A conversation with Sridhar Gutam

A conversation with Stephanie Gauttier

A conversation with Abigail Dean

A conversation with Sarah Nyanchera Nyakeri

A conversation with Lambert Heller

A conversation with Mimi Zhou

A conversation with Dasapta Erwin Irawan

A conversation with Donny Winston

A conversation with Mark Hahnel

A conversation with Nithaya Chetty

A conversation with Christian Nawroth

Plan and monitor your PhD with a Gantt chart and include all of your activities in implementing Open Science practices to ensure efficiency and societal impact of your research work and efforts.

A conversation with Rike Bucher

A conversation with Nicholas Outa

A conversation with Nadja Neumann

A conversation with Maureen Archer

A conversation with Maureen Archer (Part 2)

A conversation with Tatyana Deryugina

A conversation with Julieta Arancio, Alex Kutschera, and André Maia Chagas

A conversation with Wangari Joyce Ngugi

A conversation with Laure Haak

A conversation with Sarah Frances Gordon

A conversation with Natasha Martinoska

A conversation with Ady Coulibaly

A conversation with Alice Meadows about challenges and opportunities of open research infrastructure in supporting researchers, research integrity, and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility

This collective preprint is an active document intended to encourage reflection on academic writing. It is meant to evolve as a result of continuous input from interested contributors. Everyone is welcome who wants to contribute.

A conversation with Ana Bergholz

A conversation with Jeffrey Lee Funk about Startup and technology hype and how both affect research practices

Cite as: Bezuidenhout, Louise, & Havemann, Johanna. (2020). The Varying Openness of Digital Open Science Tools. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4290795

A conversation with Martin Delahunty about ChatGPT and potentially useful use-cases for scholarly writing and publishing

Originally published on Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3732273

A conversation with Rob Johnson about various issues related to the publishing industry, as well as the potential for alternative models like diamond open access.

[tl;dr: YES] Since Open Science has become a recurring buzzword for recent meta-scientific developments, this article summarizes what these developments entail.

Since research capacity varies drastically within and across world regions, local conditions such as available funding, research infrastructure, or internet connectivity should not interfere with the potential of academic success.

The Open Science Pie visualizes eight (8) important pieces of Open Science that can easily be implemented by any researcher to foster transparent, reproducible, and efficient research practices.

A conversation with Natira McDermott - Part 1

A conversation with Maureen Archer - Part 1

A conversation with Ady Coulibaly

A conversation with Sarah Frances Gordon

A conversation with Rike Bucher

A conversation with Abigail Dean

A conversation with Natira McDermott Part 2

Transcript of the conversation with Jan Heidelberger

A conversation with Karen Stroobants and Noemie Aubert-Bonn

A conversation with Joy Owango

A conversation with Anna Picco-Schwendener and Suzanna Marazza (part 2)

A conversation with Dasapta Erwin Irawan

A conversation with Nicholas Outa

A conversation with Wangari Joyce Ngugi

A conversation with Victor Venema, Danny Chan and Jennifer Miller

A conversation with Farah Hussain

A conversation with Jo Cowper

A conversation with Gareth Dyke

A conversation with Marieke Schoenmaker

A conversation with Kate Thorpe

A conversation with Stephanie Gauttier

A conversation with Tatyana Deryugina

A conversation with Rebecca Kennison, Simone Sacchi, and Chris Long

A conversation with Hendrik Huthoff (part 1)

A conversation with Hendrik Huthoff (part 2)

A conversation with Sarah Nyanchera Nyakeri

A conversation with Catherine Ahearn about the hand-in-hand development of open infrastructure and a culture around open knowledge

A conversation with Lauren E DeRusha about how to work with and love the inner beings inside us, sometimes acting as "saboteurs" who we feel are holding us back.

A conversation with Lauren E DeRusha about how to work with and love the inner beings inside us, sometimes acting as "saboteurs" who we feel are holding us back.

A conversation with Karen Stroobants and Noemie Aubert-Bonn about the need for change in the academic research assessment system.

A conversation with Martin Delahunty about ChatGPT

A conversation with Claudia Frick about Open Science, Research Integrity, and Science Communication in Teaching and Learning

Over the past 18 months, AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, eLife, PREreview, and TCC Africa have collaborated to develop a peer-review training workshop called Open Peer Reviewers in Africa, tailored to the region-specific context of African researchers.

A conversation with Gabriele Marinello

A conversation with Alice Meadows about challenges and opportunities of open research infrastructure in supporting researchers, research integrity, and diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility

Gibrilla Kamara interview with Amie Kabba - subtitles in English and Limba

An article about the content of a presentation held at the workshop on Histories of Genocides in the World, organized by Paris-based organization Memorial de la Shoah in Kigali/Rwanda, on 20-21/12/2022.

A conversation with Martin Delahunty

A conversation with Chris Emezue

A conversation with Julieta Arancio, Alex Kutschera, and André Maia Chagas

A conversation with Natasha Martinoska

Transcript of the conversation with Ana Bergholz

A conversation with Gabriele Marinello

Transcript of a podcast conversation with Adam Hyde

A conversation about the importance of reforming research assessment and the potential of open science to transform research to become less competition-based and more cooperation-based.

A conversation with Frank Landon Bentum

A conversation with Jigisha Patel

A conversation with Maureen Archer (Part 2)

A conversation with Wangari Joyce Ngugi

A conversation with Dana Williams

A conversation with Joyce Kao, Devmini Moonamale, and Harini Lakshminarayanan about building an ecosystem for open life science with early career researchers

A conversation with Jeffrey Lee Funk about Startup and technology hype and how both affect research practices

A conversation with Anyse Sofia Fernandes Pereira about the importance of combining traditional and scientific knowledge.

A conversation with Eleonora Colangelo about the importance of multilingualism in academic publishing

A conversation with Eleonora Colangelo

A conversation with Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt about the importance of sustainability in the lab and how to start a sustainable lab 

A conversation with Rob Johnson

A conversation with Flavio Azevedo

A conversation with Matteo Tardelli about career opportunities outside Academia

A conversation with Ebuka Ezeike, the podcast process manager and editor.

African countries are experiencing a surge in national and international collaborations, and key steps are needed to guide such partnerships for the benefit of all. Proposed solutions aim to scale meaningful collaboration with African researchers.

The Science For Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation) is seeking expert input through a landscape survey and will convene key stakeholders to dialogue and develop interventions to address policy gaps in AI and Data Science for global health in Africa.

What are the new technologies for research quality assessment in academic publishing in the light of Open Science? A webinar contribution to Peer Review Week 2020 organised by TCC Africa and AfricArXiv

TCC Africa webinar

AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, TCC Africa, and PREreview have joined forces to bring together scientists from across Africa and scientists engaged in African-related research for a series of 3 virtual discussions and collaborative peer review.

Empowering African Research and Promoting Knowledge Exchange

Open Repositories 2023 (OR2023), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 12-15 June 2023 (Session Panel 5)

The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), based at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and the pan-African Open Access portal AfricArXiv herewith announce our formal collaboration agreement.

The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) has completed the migration from Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) to OpenAlex

Referring to the manuscript draft with the title: The cost of being a non-native English speaker in science (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002184)

A conversation with Ana Faro about her work as a specialist in Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion (DEI)

A cross-sectional descriptive study was adopted to achieve the objectives of the study from a sample of 355 respondents.

A conversation with Rebecca Lawrence about the beginnings and next ten years of F1000

This study addressed issues relating to the potential occupational risks among scavengers in Ilorin metropolis.

A conversation with John Hammersley about the journey of Overleaf and his current role in researcher and community engagement at Digital Science.

This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

Opinion piece on the impact of climate change in developing economies.

Presentation held at the OASPA 2023 Conference during the panel Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends.

SDG indicator taxonomy for solution-oriented research output that allows for direct application to societal and environmental interventions.

Presentation held at the II DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE, October 25 - 26, 2023. Toluca, Mexico.

UbuntuNet Alliance under the AfricaConnect3 project invited 20 librarians to participate in a one-day Open Science training session a day before the UbuntuNet Connect 2023 Conference.

A conversation with Peter Nestorov about corporate values and the intersection between academia and industry.