Connecting Africa to the Knowledge Commons: From Project to Sustainable Infrastructure

"Open access in Africa faces several challenges related to maintain open access digital platforms and how to keep them updated. In most of the cases, public resources are not enough. Also, there is a prevailing challenge on human resources professionalization on publishing practices in the digital environment....

Open access in Africa initiative aims to promote the Open access research in Africa by Africans, and also contributors from all the world. This initiative will collecte information on open access challenges in Africa. The website designed for this initiative will allow to users to have information freely by language, location, and research field....

We need all information and databases on open access lunched in Africa and how Open access can be successfully impacted career of researchers in Africa. Our next priority is to design a website that will allow users from Africa to access freely to databases by location, language, academic discipline, and researcher type...."