This repository contains all the press and media coverage related items and information about AfricArXiv since its inception in 2018. This is inclusive of logo items used in official communication, milestones and roadmap outlined till 2023.
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2021-10-22 New Dawn for African Researchers as TCC Africa and AfricArXiv Announce Formal Collaboration
2021-05-06 Launch of Translate Science
2020-12-17 AfricArXiv receives JROST Rapid Response Award
2020-12-04 TCC Africa & AfricArXiv win at ASAPbio sprint
2020-12-02 AfricArXiv supports COAR on their Input to “Data Repository Selection: Criteria that Matter”
2020-11-23 AfricArXiv supports the virtual Chatbot Africa & Conversational AI Summit 2021
2020-11-19 COAR, TCC Africa and AfricArXiv sign partnership agreement
2020-10-22 AfricArXiv and COS partner to support pan-African research
2020-10-13 AfricArXiv in a nutshell – what we do, our achievements and our roadmap
2020-09-22 Call to action: COVID-19 Rapid Review
2020-08 1K USD Fundraising goal achieved: OSF preprint hosting & maintenance 2020
2020-07-08 Addressing Science Literacy in Africa Through Open Access
2020-06 AfricArXiv joins Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) consultation
2020-04-23 Knowledge Futures Group and AfricArXiv launch Audio/Visual Preprint Repository on PubPub
2020-03-13 Why African researchers should join the Psychological Science Accelerator
2020-03 AfricArXiv launches COVID-19 info portal
2020-02-27 ORCID integrations on OSF, ScienceOpen and Zenodo via AfricArXiv
2020-01-27 Strategic partnership with ScienceOpen
2019-05-23 Strategic partnership with Open Knowledge Maps
2019-04-18 Strategic Partnership with IGDORE
2019-04 Launch of the African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication
2018-06-25 The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service
2021-08-18 African languages to get more bespoke scientific terms, Nature (en)
2021-08-18 Les langues africaines pour obtenir plus de termes scientifiques sur mesure, ecomag (fr)
2020-03-13 African preprint server creates info hub for coronavirus research, Research Professional News (en)
2019-10-15 Multi-directional academic knowledge exchange from and about Africa, eLearning Africa News Portal (en)
2019-10-15 Échange multidirectionnel de connaissances en provenance et à propos de l’Afrique : à la découverte de la base de prépublications AfricArXiv, eLearning Africa News Portal (fr)
2019-09-24 Open Access: AfricArXiv facilitates knowledge exchange between Africa and Europe, ZBW Mediatalk (en)
2019-09-24 Open Access: AfricArXiv erleichtert den Wissensaustausch zwischen Afrika und Europa, ZBW Mediatalk (de)
2018-08-24 Introducing AfricArxiv – a preprint repository for African researchers, AuthorAID guest post (en)
2018-06-29 Africa’s preprint platform: a gateway for mother tongue science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Africa (en)
2018-06-28 Africa’s preprint platform: a gateway for mother tongue science, Research Africa (en)
2018-06-27 A research platform for African scientists will take papers in local languages, QUARTZ Africa (en)
2018-06-27 AfricArxiv: la plateforme qui veut partager la science en langues africaines, AfroTribune (fr)
2018-06-27 La plateforme des chercheurs africains pour donner plus de visibilité à leurs travaux, Courrier International (en)
2018-06-25 African scientists launch their own preprint, Nature Index (en)
2018-06 The Center for Open Science and AfricArXiv Launch Branded Preprint Service
- 2018 Apr: The seed for AfricArXiv was planted during the AfricaOSH summit in Kumasi, Ghana. Historic tweet
- Press page on our website: https://info.africarxiv.org/press/
- AfricArXiv Roadmap: https://info.africarxiv.org/roadmap/