
AfricArXiv - the African preprint repository
AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research communication. We provide a non-profit platform to upload working papers, preprints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), presentations, data sets to any of our partner services.

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Become a backer for Open Access to research from and about Africa with a monthly contribution. Read more
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Roadmap 2021
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AfricArXiv on OSF hosting & maintencance
Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF). Read more
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Preprint Peer Review and Curation
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Eider Africa JOURNAL CLUB
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AfricArXiv & ScienceOpen partnership
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Thank you (MERCI!) for hosting our 1st preprint (Y. Amarouch and H. Abriel) 10.31730/osf.io/zt439

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AfricArXiv in a nutshell - what we do, our achievements and our roadmap
Goal achieved: OSF preprint hosting & maintenance 2020
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TCC Africa & AfricArXiv win at ASAPbio sprint
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Under the title Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review, ASAPbio has held a design sprint to increa...

About
Contribute to the AfricArXiv preprint repository and the people behind the scenes.
In order to sustain the AfricArXiv services, maintain and grow the community and platform, we provide individuals as well as institutions with the following means to financially contribute to our work.
Our expenses include:
- building and maintaining the AfricArXiv platform
- community engagement
- marketing
- service fees (web hosting and other service partnerships e.g. with ORCID, OSF, …)
- traveling and presenting at conferences – incl. related expenses for Visa and accommodation
- partnership building
- …
Contributors, challenges and opportunities
Challenges in covering expenses
Our sustainability strategy so far
- https://osf.io/preprints/africarxiv/discover
- https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/africarxiv
- https://zenodo.org/communities/africarxiv/
In Zenodo, we use a community account that is free of charge to set up and maintain by anyone around any topic.
With ScienceOpen we have an agreement that we can use their preprint infrastructure for free in 2020 and reassess towards the end of the year. On top of the submission portal, the preprint system at ScienceOpen has a standardized peer review integrated which adds another service level.
OSF provides for data storage of the whole research cycle of a project. It is up to the scientists to choose which platform they prefer.
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