Browsing by Author "Mensah, Priscilla"

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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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    Infographic: African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication
    (2020-11-24) Mensah, Priscilla; Havemann, Jo
    Infographic representing the 10 African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication. We, the undersigned, declare to adhere to the following Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication in and about Africa: 1) Academic Research and knowledge from and about Africa should be freely available to all who wish to access, use or reuse it while at the same time being protected from misuse and misappropriation. 2) African scientists and scientists working on African topics and/or territory will make their research achievements including underlying datasets available in a digital Open Access repository or journal and an explicit Open Access license is applied. 3) African research output should be made available in the principle common language of the global science community as well as in one or more local African languages. 4) It is important to take into consideration in the discussions indigenous and traditional knowledge in its various forms. 5) It is necessary to respect the diverse dynamics of knowledge generation and circulation by discipline and geographical area. 6) It is necessary to recognise, respect and acknowledge the regional diversity of African scientific journals, institutional repositories and academic systems. 7) African Open Access policies and initiatives promote Open Scholarship, Open Source and Open Standards for interoperability purposes. 8) Multi-stakeholder mechanisms for collaboration and cooperation should be established to ensure equal participation across the African continent. 9) Economic investment in Open Access is consistent with its benefit to societies on the African continent – therefore institutions and governments in Africa provide the enabling environment, infrastructure and capacity building required to support Open Access 10) African Open Access stakeholders and actors keep up close dialogues with representatives from all world regions, namely Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
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    The African Open Access portal (AfricArXiv) as a Covid-19 information hub
    (2020-10-21) Mensah, Priscilla; Ahmad, Umar; Okelo, Luke
    Webinar presentation on Accelerating Reach and Discoverability of COVID-19 Related Research from and About Africa by Mr. Luke Okelo, Ms. Priscilla Mensah, and Dr. Umar Ahmad at the UNISA Open Access Webinar: Global Collaboration to Accelerate Transition to Open Access (http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/26711) on October 21, 2020.