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This article reports on selected findings from the pilot African Open Science Platform landscape study, conducted by the Academy of Science of South Africa, on request of the SA Department of Science and Technology.
In September, Ethiopia adopted a national open access policy for higher education institutions. EIFL guest blogger, Dr Solomon Mekonnen Tekle, librarian at Addis Ababa University Library, and EIFL Open Access Coordinator in Ethiopia, celebrates the adoption of the policy.
both in Europe and Latin America principles have been postulated to achieve Open Access. Europe calls it Plan S while in Latin America it…
The reality and potential of the modern storm of digital data together with pervasive communication have profound implications for society, the economy and for science. No state should fail to adapt its national intellectual infrastructure to exploit the bene ts and minimise the risks this technology creates. Open Science is a vital enabler: in maintaining the rigour and reliability of science; in creatively integrating diverse data resources to address complex modern challenges; in open innovation and in engaging with other societal actors as knowledge partners in tackling shared problems. It is fundamental to realisation of the SDGs.
The challenge for Africa. National science systems worldwide are struggling to adapt to this new paradigm. The alternatives are to do so or risk stagnating in a scientific backwater, isolated from creative streams of social, cultural and economic opportunity. Africa should adapt, but in its own way, and as a leader not a follower, with its own broader, more societally-engaged priorities. It should seize the challenge with boldness and resolution by creating an African Open Science Platform, with the potential to be a powerful lever of social, cultural and scientific vitality and of economic development.
A review of the development of Open Science Services in Africa, initiatives, the current situation and chances in the future.
'Most highly cited' criterion is not the most appropriate.
Publication will highlight pioneering work of scientists searching for cures to diseases like HIV and malaria and solutions to climate change.
African universities have been urged to foster gender equality, parity and mentoring of girls and early career women scientists in STEM, in order to facilitate economic transformation and other developmental challenges affecting the East African region.
As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.
Venture will launch next year and seeks to strengthen continent’s science by helping academics share work more quickly.
The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research.
New law would allow commercial planting of transgenic varieties in Uganda.
There are plenty of reasons to be upbeat about the prospects for science and research across Africa. The next challenge is to bring more of that evidence and expertise into decision making.
There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.
