Browsing by Author "Bezuidenhout, Louise"

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    African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape
    (2020-03-28) Bezuidenhout, Louise; Havemann, Jo; Kitchen, Stephanie; De Mutiis, Anna; Owango, Joy; Zeni, Kevina
    This data set accompanies the text at doi 10.5281/zenodo.3732273. // Correspondence: JH: info@africarxiv.org, SK: sk111@soas.ac.uk Visual Map: https://kumu.io/access2perspectives/african-digital-research-repositories Dataset: https://tinyurl.com/African-Research-Repositories Archived at https://info.africarxiv.org/african-digital-research-repositories/ Submission form: https://forms.gle/CnyGPmBxN59nWVB38
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    African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape [preprint]
    (2020-03-29) Havemann, Jo; De Mutiis, Anna; Bezuidenhout, Louise; Owango, Joy; Kitchen, Stephanie
    The International African Institute (IAI, https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org) in collaboration with AfricarXiv (https://info.africarxiv.org) present an interactive map of African digital research literature repositories. This drew from IAI’s earlier work from 2016 onwards to identify and list Africa-based institutional repositories that focused on identifying repositories based in African university libraries. Our earlier resources are available at https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories. The interactive map extends the work of the IAI to include organizational, governmental and international repositories. It also maps the interactions between research repositories. In this dataset, we focus on institutional repositories for scholarly works, as defined by Wikipedia contributors (March 2020)
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    AfricArXiv – the pan-African Open Scholarly Repository (Overview and Roadmap)
    (2020-09-25) Ahinon, Justin, Sègbédji; Arafat, Hisham; Ahmad, Umar; Achampong, Joyce; Aldirdiri, Osman; Ayodele, Obasegun, Tekena; Bezuidenhout, Louise; Okelo, Luke; Cary, Michael; Fath, Nada; Ksibi, Nabil, Aziz; Zimmer, Niklas, Carl; Nasr, Fayza; Nguemeni, Carine; Maina, Mahmoud, Bukar; Mensah, Priscilla; Obanda, Johanssen; Owango, Joy; Ogunlaja, Ahmed; Simpson, Gregory; Havemann, Johanna
    AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research working towards building an Africa-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works. We are partnering with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers – on the African continent and globally. It is our aim to promote discoverability of African research output according to sfDORA : https://sfdora.org/read/ FAIR principles: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism: https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/en To contextualize the above to the African scholarly community we have postulated 10 African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication: https://info.africarxiv.org/african-oa-principles/
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    Economic Sanctions and Academia: Overlooked Impact and Long-Term Consequences
    (2019-06-26) Bezuidenhout, Louise; Karrar, Ola, Zeinalabdin, Abdelrahim; Lezaun, Javier; Nobes, Andy
    There is an often-overlooked nexus between economic sanctions, academia, and sustainable development. The paper unpacks the implication of economic sanctions for the maintenance of robust academic systems capable of addressing national development goals. We show how sanctions place “invisible barriers” limiting access to necessary resources and curtailing their effective use. Furthermore, the impact of sanctions persists long after they are formally lifted. To develop our argument, we draw on a national survey of Sudanese academics focused on the impact of 20 years of economic sanctions on their work. It identifies key areas of academic research and education that have been impacted by international sanctions. It also discusses how the 2017 lifting of these sanctions is unlikely to overcome the long-term implications of the sanctions on academia. The paper concludes by problematising the current interpretation of jus post bellum, or moral behaviour after conflict. It suggests that the responsibility to make reparations in the form of support for academic systems applies to countries who impose economic sanctions.
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    Harnessing The Open Science Infrastructure For An Efficient African Response To Covid-19 [Preprint]
    (2020-03-30) Havemann, Jo; Bezuidenhout, Louise; Achampong, Joyce; Akligoh, Harry; Ayodele, Obasegun; Hussein, Shaukatali; Ksibi, Nabil; Mboa Nkoudou, Thomas Hervé; Obanda, Johanssen; Owango, Joy; Sanga, Valerian Linus1; Stirling, Julian; Wenzelmann, Victoria
    We are seeking feedback and further input on this preprint manuscript. Go to outbreaksci.prereview.org/10.5281/zenodo.3733767 to leave a review. Please note: This document in its current preprint version (v1.0) is open for comments. Please make direct suggestions to the text at tinyurl.com/Open-Science-Africa-COVID-19, or email the corresponding authors. To contribute in the collaborative response in some of the work steps and/or financially, please visit https://info.africarxiv.org/contribute/.
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    Multilingual COVID-19 Information Videos
    (2020-03-26) Bezuidenhout, Louise; McNaughton, Anna; Havemann, Johanna
    We propose to address a lack of CODIV-19 information in local languages with short, consistent messages provided in as many regional/local languages as possible. For that, we need help of researchers and other communicators. This is a proposal to create 2-minute videos in as many languages as possible that present a consistent message about COVID-19, containment strategies and practical health information.