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AfricArXiv - the pan-African Open Access portal

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.

Estimated Annual Budget
€150
Today's Balance
€2,346.53

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Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF). Read more

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Support us in building capacity for preprint peer review and curation in Africa Read more

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For Institutional Repositories, Research Institutions, and Publishers working with AfricArXiv to increase research discoverability. Read more

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Fostering the development of ORCID Communities of Practice in Africa

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Hugues Abriel

720 EUR since Aug 2020

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Nadia Sam-Agudu

150 EUR since Feb 2021

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Rickard Carlsson

100 EUR since Feb 2020

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Neil Lewis, Jr.

100 EUR since Aug 2020

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Ignazio Ziano

100 EUR since Aug 2020

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Moin Syed

100 EUR since Aug 2020

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Incognito

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100 EUR since Aug 2020

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Brian A Nosek

100 EUR since Feb 2021

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Stefano Vianello

100 EUR since Oct 2021

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Incognito

50 EUR since Feb 2020

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Wolfram Seidler

50 EUR since Aug 2020

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Nora Schmidt

50 EUR since Aug 2020

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Stefan Skupien

50 EUR since Aug 2020

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amcasari

50 EUR since Feb 2021

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Access 2 Perspectives

2,113.88 EUR since Jan 2020

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ASAPbio

1,238 EUR since Dec 2020

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Liberate Science GmbH

598 EUR since Mar 2021

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University of Bern

298 EUR since Mar 2020

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Code for Science & Society

45.35 EUR since Mar 2022

AfricArXiv - the pan-African Open Access portal is all of us

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Thank you for supporting AfricArXiv - the pan-African Open Access portal.

Osman Aldirdiri

Core Contributor

Nada Fath

Core Contributor

Umar Ahmad

Core Contributor

Ebuka Ezeike

Core Contributor

Access 2 Pers...

€2,114 EUR

ASAPbio

€1,238 EUR

Hugues Abriel

sponsor

€720 EUR

Liberate Scie...

AfricArXiv on OSF hosting &...

€598 EUR

University of...

OSF hosting & maintencance

€298 EUR

Thank you (MERCI!) for hosting our 1st preprint...

Nadia Sam-Agudu

€150 EUR

Rickard Carlsson

OSF hosting & maintencance

€100 EUR

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Today’s balance

€2,346.53 EUR

Total raised

€6,592.83 EUR

Total disbursed

€4,246.30 EUR

Estimated annual budget

€150.00 EUR

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News from AfricArXiv - the pan-African Open Access portal

Updates on our activities and progress.

AfricArXiv in a nutshell - what we do, our achievements and our roadmap

More than two years into our work with AfricArXiv we are glad to present an overview of our work. You find more details and information at Cite as: Ahinon, J. S., Ksibi, N., Havemann, J. et al. (2020, September 25). AfricArXiv – the pan...
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Published on October 13, 2020 by Priscilla Mensah

Goal achieved: OSF preprint hosting & maintenance 2020

We would like to take a moment to express our gratitude to everyone who contributed in covering the 2020 fee for AfricArXiv’s preprint hosting & maintenance on the ...
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Published on September 15, 2020 by Priscilla Mensah

Quick recap: how it all began

We launched AfricArXiv in June 2018 envisioning a pan-African preprint repository with several goals in mind:Increased visibility for African research output - free of charge for the researchersEncouraging submission in traditional Afric...
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Published on February 20, 2020 by Access 2 Perspectives

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TCC Africa & AfricArXiv win at ASAPbio sprint

Published on December 8, 2020 by Johanssen Obanda

Under the title Encouraging Preprint Curation and Review, ASAPbio has held a design sprint to increa...

About


About three years into our work with AfricArXiv here an overview of our work. 

You find all details and information at 

Cite as: Ahinon, J. S., Ksibi, N., Havemann, J. et al. (2020, September 25). AfricArXiv – the pan-African Open Scholarly Repository. https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/56p3e 


As signatories to the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (sfDORA), the C19 Rapid Peer Review initiative and the African Open Access Principles in Scholarly Communication we foster language diversity, research integrity and transparency in African scholarly publishing.


Why do we need a scholarly repository for Africa?

The vision and mission of AfricArXiv include fostering community among African researchers, facilitate collaborations between African and non-African researchers, and raise the profile of African research on the international stage. 

We are making African research visible globally, thereby increasing collaboration across the continent as well as triggering interdisciplinary research. This is achieved by partnering with established and renowned organisations inside and outside Africa that specialize in science communication, capacity building, scholarly tech development and networking – all of which serve the discoverability of African research results and achievements as well as the reputation building of African researchers’ profiles. 


Roadmap 2021-2023

Through the building of an open, transparent, reliable, efficient and decentralized discoverability infrastructure, it is our aim to support the connectivity of African scholars – and African scholarship – to a wider audience.  As part of the near future plans, we intend to further diversify tools and applications to work along innovative, globally applicable standards and methodologies to accomplish our mission to ensure African ownership of African data. In the next three years, we want to further increase networking and partnership building in the growing African Open Science ecosystem and establish AfricArXiv as a self-hosted, cross-continental decentralised Open Access platform. We envision the various scholarly repositories that host African content to become interoperable and work with various stakeholders towards that goal. The full roadmap can be found on africarxiv.org/roadmap.


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Building and managing AfricArXiv involves expenses for human resources, technology development, partner services, third-party services like web hosting, digital communication tool fees etc. From 2018 to 2020, these expenses were covered by direct financial contributions mostly by the core team members, conference participation and partner service fee waivers and a highly dedicated in-kind workforce by the wider AfricArxiv team and users. 


We are working towards keeping submissions affordable for individual researchers and this is why we need support.


Our planned revenue streams include institutional partnerships, crowdfunding, training, consultancy services and capacity building
Financial contributions to AfricArXiv can be made via PayPal, mPesa, direct debit, and online transfer. For details, see https://info.africarxiv.org/contribute/



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
All financial contributions we receive will be spent to one or more of the above-mentioned purposes.

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On the onset of AfricArXiv’s operations, our long term vision was always to create a platform that is hosted on the African continent, decentrally at various research institutions in every region, to ensure ownership of the African research output and empower African research stakeholders in engagement, collaboration, and exchange of knowledge on a global level. 

We are reaching out to other initiatives, organizations, and partners to make this a reality soon. Contact us to be involved. Are you interested to work with us for Open Access and Research in Africa?
Email us:
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Our team

Osman Aldirdiri

Core Contributor

Nada Fath

Core Contributor

Umar Ahmad

Core Contributor

Ebuka Ezeike

Core Contributor