| URL: | https://info.africarxiv.org/ |
| Full Name: | AfricArxiv |
| Short Name (or Acronym): | |
| Description: | AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works to catalyze the African Renaissance. |
| Accepted Content Types: | Research articles, Review papers, Project proposals, Case studies, ‘Negative’ results and ‘null’ results (i.e. results that do not support a hypothesis), Data and methods papers, Technical notes, Dataset description papers, Preprints |
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| Closure Date: | |
| Contact: | [email protected] |
| Disciplinary Scope: | All scientific fileds |
| Keywords: | OSF, Figshare, Africa, African research |
| Launch Date: | Jun-18 |
| OAI-PMH URL: | |
| OpenDOAR ID: | |
| Platform: | They have their own framework but their contents are also hosted by : OSF, Figshare, Qeios, Pubpub, Scienceopen and Zenodo |
| Platform Languages: | English |
| Record Count: | Full text (articles, theses): 248 (OSF), Zenodo (171), ScienceOpen (13), Figshare ( 2) |
| Repository Type: | Decentralised/independent/aggregating open archive platform |
| Service Pricing: | None |
| Status: | Open |
| Terms of Use: | Yes |
| Last Update: | 7/13/21 |
| Accessibility of Conflict of Interest Procedures: | |
| Business Model: | Non Profit |
| Funding: | Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
| Objectives: | https://info.africarxiv.org/in-a-nutshell/ |
| Countries: | <a href="https://doapr.coar-repositories.org/countries/germany/">Germany</a> |
| Owner Full Name: | Small group of enthusiasts, currently maintained and managed via Access 2 Perspectives ( Jo Havemann). For details and governance roadmap/vision see https://info.africarxiv.org/in-a-nutshell/ |
| Owner Short Name: | n/a |
| Owner URL: | https://access2perspectives.org/ |
| Ownership Type: | Academic community group |
| Scientific Technical Committees: | Yes : includes researchers. |
| User Committees: | No |
| Access to Content: | Anyone may access full items free of charge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access to Metadata: | Anyone may access the metadata free of charge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Account Creation: | Only needed for submission, via ORCID iD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Backups: | The content is currently hosted by 3rd party services who take care of the backups, see table at https://info.africarxiv.org/submit/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Functional Description: | https://info.africarxiv.org/submit/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interoperability: | The content is currently hosted by 3rd party services who take care of the backups, see table at https://info.africarxiv.org/submit/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Metadata Formats: | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Metadata Languages: | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Metadata Properties: | Title, Identifier, Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), Author affiliation(s), License type(s), Subject category | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Method for Reuse of Metadata: | Openly available via API (OSF) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Source: | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission for Re-use of Metadata: | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Persistence of Content: | COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years, wscienceOpen via Clockss, Pubpub & Figshare via AWS, Zenodo via CERN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preservation Policy: | The content is currently hosted by 3rd party services and will thus continue to be online in case of closure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Functions: |
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| Academic Applicant Only?: | Yes |
| Accepted Content Formats: | PDF, Word doc, RTF, Open Office |
| Accepted Content Languages: | Afrikaans, Akan, English, French, Igbo, Swahili, Zulu, other unspecified native African languages ( summary must be provided in English and French, non-English languages held in moderation queue awaiting verification |
| Accepted Content Level: | Research and Scholary content |
| Accepted Supplementary Content: | With each manuscript you can add supplementary files in any format with unlimited storage. |
| Associated Editor: | No |
| Associated Journal: | No |
| Author PID: | ORCID |
| Availability of Associated Content: | You also can integrate files hosted using other services such as Figshare, Dropbox, or GitHub. |
| Journal Submission: | Unrestricted |
| Licensing: | Authors must use CC BY 4.0 license |
| Mechanisms to Report Concerns About Content: | Email administrator |
| Mechanisms to Report Concerns About Plagiarism: | Email administrator |
| Moderation: | Beforehand : Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
| Peer Review Status Indication: | No |
| Persistent Identifier: | DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
| Remaining Indrawn Item: | Basic information remains on a tombstone page (OSF) |
| Text Embargo: | No, only if the publisher imposes an embargo period |
| Time from Submission to Posting: | 3 to 5 business days |
| Versioning Policy: | Accepts new version. All version are archieved and visible for readers. |
| Who can Deposit?: | African scientists based on the African continent African scientists who are currently based at a host institute outside Africa. Non-African scientists who report on research conducted on African territory; preferably with African co-authors listed. Non-African scientists who report on research relevant to African affairs |
| Withdrawal Authorisation: | At author's request with moderator approval |
| Withdrawal Policy: | Yes. Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |