Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), the Canadian  Research Knowledge  Network (CRKN) and the Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020) have come together to host a series of peer-to-peer learning workshops on Open Access Agreements.   Recipients of this peer to peer learning will be African library consortia with the objective of knowledge sharing from similar consortia from the Global […]

TCC Africa and Eider Africa have got into a formal partnership to support early career researchers through mentorship in their research lifecycle. One of the major challenges self-sponsored early career researchers face is understanding their lifecycle from research proposal to publishing. Limited to lack of support in this process, contributes to the dropout rate in postgraduate studies. With […]

TCC Africa Joins International Science Council Steering Group on Scientific Publishing project The recently appointed Group will guide the next set of project activities to define tractable priorities for reform and action in scientific publishing.

Invitation to a FREE workshop by  Eider Africa, Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), AfricArxiv and PREreview Target audience: Postgraduates, Early Career Researchers, Mid–Senior level

Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), in collaboration with the National Research  Fund, Kenya (NRF)supported  70 researchers  from 6 research and academic  institutes in building their  research capacity on how they could improve their research output and  visibility through open science.  The workshop was  hosted by  Maasai Mara University   . Participants noted that understanding the process of academic publishing and  open science  was  essential in making them more competitive , particularly when it came  to […]

 Training  Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) has signed an  Expression of  Interest (EoI) to adopt the principles of Open Access 2020 (OA2020). This is an international effort to make all scholarly publications freely and immediately available to everyone by replacing the current costly subscription-based approach with transparent, sustainable funding models.