tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/4498/feed_itemsjsellanga's bookmarks2023-06-20T04:27:48-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/79900592023-06-20T04:27:48-04:002023-06-20T04:27:48-04:00Looking Over the Edge — Ten Years of Knowledge Unlatched: Paving the Way for Diamond Open Access Monographs | Charleston Hub<p><span>Widely considered a more equitable form of Gold OA, DOA relies on funding from institutions to cover the entire publishing process, ensuring that researchers can share their work without paying fees to publishers. Although DOA encompasses a range of OA publications and infrastructures, it has gained the most attention and traction on the journal side of publishing, where it is positioned as a viable alternative to the Gold OA model reliant on Article Processing Charges (APCs). Current estimates</span><span>1</span><span> suggest that up to 29,000 academic journals use DOA as a publishing model, a third of which are registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Studies also point to the diversity of the DOA landscape, which spans countries, continents, disciplines, and languages. Given their increasing popularity in Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe — considered emerging OA publishing markets where researchers do not have the same access to closed scholarly content as those in more affluent countries and where authors cannot afford the steep cost of APCs</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/79575682023-06-07T05:24:20-04:002023-06-07T05:24:20-04:00An African quantum computing success story | The Sunday Mail<p>News feature on how Lorraine Tsitsi, a Zimbabwean woman has defied all odds to be a successfuln quantum researcher and developer</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64891232023-01-07T09:02:10-05:002023-01-07T14:21:28-05:00National open science policies in Africa - Existing or in preparationSeveral slide presentations 1st UNESCO Working Group on Open Science Policies and Policy Instruments, May 23, 2022.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/69653412023-02-09T10:02:03-05:002023-02-09T10:02:03-05:00UNESCO appreciates the meeting in Venezuela on open science<p><span>The Aquiles Nazoa Cultural House, in Caracas welcomed science and technology authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean, and representatives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/69652612023-02-09T09:51:29-05:002023-02-09T09:51:29-05:00AAU secretary general asks HE to work on academic excellence<p>Interview with <span>Professor Olusola Bandele Oyewole took over as the secretary general of the </span><a href="https://aau.org/">Association of African Universities</a><span> (AAU), based in Accra, Ghana. In the unterview Professor Olusola speaks </span><span>on his initiatives to enhance quality assurance and harmonisation of research in universities across the continent</span><span> </span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/69012532023-01-31T12:46:06-05:002023-01-31T12:46:06-05:00Nature article charges waived for global South authors - Sub-Saharan Africatag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/68412902023-01-26T10:35:53-05:002023-01-26T10:35:53-05:00How Africa Is Overcoming ‘Knowledge Colonialism’ - CodeBluetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64899502023-01-07T09:59:41-05:002023-01-07T09:59:41-05:00How Many Africans Contribute to Open Source Software?tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64896012023-01-07T09:58:31-05:002023-01-07T09:58:31-05:00Mapping African Digital Infrastructures (Part 3): Understanding the motivations and challenges of African contributions to the Internet standards development – Research ICT Africatag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895382023-01-07T09:47:45-05:002023-01-07T09:47:45-05:00Open Access Data Centres laying the infrastructure for successful deployment, adoption of 5G, IoT and other advances in Africa - Businessday NGtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895372023-01-07T09:45:03-05:002023-01-07T09:45:03-05:00Africa needs data set infrastructure to benefit from AItag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895362023-01-07T09:42:42-05:002023-01-07T09:42:42-05:00Strengthening African voices in global digital policy | Digital Watch Observatorytag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895352023-01-07T09:40:47-05:002023-01-07T09:40:47-05:00From open science to open funding: windows of opportunity - Institute of Development Studiestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895342023-01-07T09:37:55-05:002023-01-07T09:37:55-05:00Open Science to be inclusive in Ghana’s Decade of Innovation - Africa Briefingtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895322023-01-07T09:33:49-05:002023-01-07T09:33:49-05:00African Traditional Knowledge and Open Science for Climate Mitigation - Branchtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64891292023-01-07T09:16:04-05:002023-01-07T09:16:04-05:00African data science research receives major funding from the National Institutes of Health, USA – H3Africatag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64891212023-01-07T08:59:23-05:002023-01-07T08:59:23-05:00New project: Open science cloud infrastructure and training for communities in Latin America and Africa - CSCCEtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64891202023-01-07T08:54:18-05:002023-01-07T08:54:18-05:00Open Science in Africa | Frontiers Research Topictag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/62178682022-12-20T12:38:36-05:002023-01-07T10:09:29-05:00Frontiers | Open access and its potential impact on public health – A South African perspective<p>Abstract: Traditionally, access to research information has been restricted through journal subscriptions. This means that research entities and individuals who were unable to afford subscription costs did not have access to journal articles. There has however been a progressive shift toward electronic access to journal publications and subsequently growth in the number of journals available globally. In the context of electronic journals, both open access and restricted access options exist. While the latter option is comparable to traditional, subscription-based paper journals, open access journal publications follow an “open science” publishing model allowing scholarly communications and outputs to be publicly available online at no cost to the reader. However, for readers to enjoy open access, publication costs are shifted elsewhere, typically onto academic institutions and authors. SARS-CoV-2, and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the benefits of open science through accelerated research and unprecedented levels of collaboration and data sharing. South Africa is one of the leading open access countries on the African continent. This paper focuses on open access in the South African higher education research context with an emphasis on our Institution and our own experiences. It also addresses the financial implications of open access and provides possible solutions for reducing the cost of publication for researchers and their institutions. Privacy in open access and the role of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in medical research and secondary use of data in South Africa will also be discussed. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/61030122022-12-07T05:36:02-05:002023-01-07T09:32:08-05:00Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls | The Conversation<p>by Joshua M. Pearce As we prepare to invest money to prevent the next global pandemic and find solutions to many other problems, science funders have a large opportunity to move towards open science and more research collaboration by offering open-source endowed chairs. In these research positions, professors agree to ensure all of their writing is distributed via open access — and they release all of their intellectual property in the public domain or under appropriate open-source licences. The global scholarly publishing market has grown steadily and is now worth over US$28 billion. Researchers estimate universities are also able to capture billions through patent licensing, although most technology transfer offices at universities actually lose money. But many academics want to see their research fully accessible — free for everyone. My research with colleagues has found the majority of American and Canadian academics want to see universities establish open-source endowed chairs. [...] </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64895332023-01-07T09:37:10-05:002023-01-07T14:21:34-05:00Toward Global Research Equity from an African perspective – A conversation with Joy Owango"Joy Owango is the executive director of TCC Africa, the Training Center in Communication, based in Kenya and serving the whole continent of Africa.
Joy and Jo talk about how the scholarly community is working towards the concept of Global Research Equity – through the lens of Joy’s almost two decades’ worth of experience in scholarly capacity building and training across Africa."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/60813972022-11-27T09:48:44-05:002023-01-07T10:16:42-05:00Frontiers | Open science and Big Data in South Africa<p>"With the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project and the new Multi-Purpose Reactor (MPR) soon coming on-line, South Africa and other collaborating countries in Africa will need to make the management, analysis, publication, and curation of “Big Scientific Data” a priority. In addition, the recent draft Open Science policy from the South African Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) requires both Open Access to scholarly publications and research outputs, and an Open Data policy that facilitates equal opportunity of access to research data. The policy also endorses the deposit, discovery and dissemination of data and metadata in a manner consistent with the FAIR principles – making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR). The challenge to achieve Open Science in Africa starts with open access for research publications and the provision of persistent links to the supporting data. With the deluge of research data expected from the new experimental facilities in South Africa, the problem of how to make such data FAIR takes center stage. One promising approach to make such scientific datasets more “Findable” and “Interoperable” is to rely on the Dataset representation of the Schema.org vocabulary which has been endorsed by all the major search engines. The approach adds some semantic markup to Web pages and makes scientific datasets more “Findable” by search engines. This paper does not address all aspects of the Open Science agenda but instead is focused on the management and analysis challenges of the “Big Scientific Data” that will be produced by the SKA project. The paper summarizes the role of the SKA Regional Centers (SRCs) and then discusses the goal of ensuring reproducibility for the SKA data products. Experiments at the new MPR neutron source will also have to conform to the DSI's Open Science policy. The Open Science and FAIR data practices used at the ISIS Neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK are then briefly described. The paper concludes with some remarks about the important role of interdisciplinary teams of research software engineers, data engineers and research librarians in research data management."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64899632023-01-07T10:35:49-05:002023-01-07T10:35:49-05:00open-access.network: Open Access in African Studiestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/64903712023-01-07T10:50:28-05:002023-01-07T10:50:28-05:00A look at scholarly communication outside academia - News - Illinois Statetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/57365522022-11-04T08:55:38-04:002023-01-07T09:39:58-05:00How Open Science can revolutionize global knowledge cooperation<p>"Knowledge needs to be globally accessible in order to combat the crises of our times, from climate and energy to health and food security. Technological advances such as cloud server storage and satellite-based internet connectivity could provide solutions for ubiquitous access. Yet, political will is needed to re-calibrate the regimes that prevent the free flow of knowledge.... What are the reasons why almost two decades after the Berlin Declaration the promises of the Open Science have not been met? First, market and innovation-based regimes for privileging knowledge, such as intellectual property rights (IPR), patents, and subscriptions to journals and libraries, are structured that makes knowledge exclusive. IPR are an obstacle for communities to localise knowledge and benefit from products. COVID-19 vaccine patents remain a contentious debate as they disallow the free passing on of vaccine production knowledge. Gatekeeping extends to general scientific publishing, with the UNESCO Science Report 2021 noting that “five commercial publishers are responsible for more than 50% of all published articles and about 70% of scientific publications are still unavailable in open access.” This fact is despite there being more open access journals and repositories than ever before. Second, access to knowledge needs suitable infrastructure. The fact that cutting edge science is mostly disseminated online, while only 63% of the world population had access to the internet in 2021, means that too many are excluded from the ideas, repositories and publications which are shaping our societies and from the civic participation that provides them representation. Third, if servers and repositories of open data sets are following a restrictive logic of data localisation while cross-border arrangements for free-flow of data are missing, other countries are beholden to the infrastructure and jurisdiction of those who have accumulated and centralised knowledge and its products. This continues existing asymmetries in knowledge access and production and can turn into a severe problem when governments restrict access to the internet or when they default to nationalism in a global crisis...."</p>