AfricArXiv, Eider Africa, eLife, PREreview, and TCC Africa have collaborated to develop a peer-review training workshop, Open Peer Reviewers in Africa, tailored to the region-specific context of African researchers. They co-created tools and strategies for scholarly literature evaluation, and are now ready to pilot the new workshop series with researchers who would be interested in […]
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Read More ⟶From a terrestrial ecologist to supporting scientists in their research lifecycle through scientific communication Prof Gabor Lovei is a terrestrial ecologist with interests in invasion biology, environmental biosafety, agrocology, conservation biology, biodiversity, and ornithology. Over the past 35 years he has studied invertebrate and vertebrate ecology in Europe, East Africa, New Zealand, and China, and […]
Read More ⟶From an agricultural researcher to the Head of Communications at the AWARD programme Ms Dorine Odongo is the Head of Communications at African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) and a former 2012 TCC Africa trainee. Dorine’s interests are in leveraging the power of evidence to drive social change and inclusive growth. A development […]
Read More ⟶Happy New Year! African researchers produced over 155, 607 publications and 52.5% of the output was #OpenAccess A #thread #openscience . Data courtesy of @DSDimensions Go here to find out.
Read More ⟶2021 has been an exciting year for TCC Africa and these are some of the highlights of our activities. We have officially supported over 10,000 researchers and in a bid to continue supporting the discoverability and visibility of African researchers , we got into a strategic partnership with AfricArxiv , Africa’s only preprint repository and we have an ongoing exciting collaboration with PLOS with the objective of co-creating pathways to Open Research that work for African […]
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