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Ahinon, Justin Sègbédji; Arafat, Hisham; Ahmad, Umar; Achampong, Joyce; Aldirdiri, Osman; Ayodele, Obasegun Tekena; Okelo, Luke; Bezuidenhout, Louise; Cary, Michael; Fath, Nada; Ksibi, Nabil Aziz; Nasr, Fayza; Nguemeni, Carine; Maina, Mahmoud Bukar; Mensah, Priscilla; Obanda, Johanssen; Owango, Joy;
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of academic publications which are either about Africa or by African scientists. The platform was established in 2018. It was established to make preprint servers more available in various fields and regions. Its establishment happen during trends to provide more digital services to support science
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a short summary translation in a traditional African language. After a member of the AfricArXiv team has checked the submission for formal criteria and approved the manuscript, it will be posted with a
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From its founding the platform welcomed publications in any African language. In July 2020 the platform began hosting audio and video files.
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hosts the platform. The cost of operating the servers is significant and that organization takes a fee to cover its costs.
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Ogunlaja, Ahmed; Simpson, Gregory; Havemann, Johanna (25 September 2020).
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open-access repository
preprints
Center for Open Science
ScienceOpen
ORCID
manuscripts
Crossref
DOI
CC BY 4.0
List of preprint repositories


"A research platform for African scientists will take papers in local languages"
Quartz Africa


"African scientists launch their own preprint repository"
doi
10.1038/d41586-018-05543-w
S2CID
158526432
"Preprints Make Inroads Outside of Physics"
American Physical Society
"Investing in a brighter future"


"Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles"
doi
10.1038/d41586-020-00363-3
PMID

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