🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

✨ The 10th WACREN Annual Conference is heading to "The Land of Teranga" - Senegal! 🇸🇳📅 Save the date: 10-11 April 2025 🎯 Theme: 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲

Interoperability is inclusion! 🌍 With #PIDsLink from WACREN, we show how local PID solutions can align with global standards, ensuring equitable research visibility. This task force is vital to a FAIR and inclusive scholarly ecosystem. Let’s collaborate! #OpenScience 𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

EIFL, AJOLinfo & WACREN proud to name 17 recipients of grants to strengthen quality & sustainability of no-fee #OpenAccess journals & journal hosting platforms in #Africa. Congratulations to the grantees! bit.ly/3ZiQSvf Wellcome

📌The Coalition for Open Access Publishing of Public Health in Africa (COPPHA), led by WACREN and Peoples-Praxis, has conducted a Peer Reviewing Course to train African #researchers in high-quality peer review practices, supporting the growth of Diamond OA journals in Africa. To

7️⃣ Key Impacts from 9️⃣ Years of Advancing #OpenScience in #Africa 🌍 With our partners and collaborators, we built vibrant communities, shaped policies, enhanced infrastructure access, and more. Read the full story here 👉 libsense.ren.africa/en/libsense-im… Information School AfricaConnect3 👏

Discover how #COPPHA is revolutionising African open-access publishing with tailored #DiamondOpenAccess capacity, community-building initiatives, and state-of-the-art infrastructure for public health research. By advancing equitable visibility and integrating social justice

WACREN is leveraging the presence of some of LIBSENSE's collaborators at the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access Summit in Cape Town 🇿🇦to showcase the significant outcomes of #LIBSENSE's 9-year work in strengthening #openscience in #Africa. And #BAOBAB (our regional OAR) takes a piece of

Good to spend time with LIBSENSE folks in Cape Town, and to promote the Publish Review Curate model as a powerful approach to NEXT GEN diamond publishing.

Hello Diamond OA advocates, We are pleased to announce the launch of the #DiamondOpenAccess Publishing in Africa Community of Practice (CoP) this December. If your African organisation publishes ‘no-fee’ OA journals or books, we invite you to Join this CoP to: ✅ connect with

Register now and enjoy a discounted conference fee. Deadline - Jan. 3⃣1⃣ More payment options available soon. Read more in the newly released eNGAGE newsletter - wacren.net/en/wacren-conf…. Other articles here - wacren.net/en/media-centr… #WACREN2025 🇸🇳

🚀 Inspired by our OA book advocacy and supported by Open Book Collective, FUTMinna is modernising academic book publishing in #Nigeria. 👏🏾👏🏾 With #BookHub, it envisions scaling this #OpenAccess model nationwide! 🎯 Check them out! 👉🏾 apc-minna.bookhub.ng 📚✨

The #COPPHA #OpenPublishing Course, organized by WACREN and peoplespraxis, has successfully empowered African public health researchers with essential open publishing skills! 📖 Through this course, participants from 24 countries have: ✅ embraced Open Access for greater

We’re thrilled to launch our revitalised online office - our new website! ✨✨💫🌟 🔎 What’s New? 🔹 Open Access Services 🔹 Diamond Open Access Community of Practice 🔹 Policy Observatory for #OpenScience in Africa Read more on the above here: libsense.ren.africa. #LIBSENSE

Help take PublicHealth.Africa to the next level! Join our Working Group to shape its future—strategy, structure, sustainability & impact. 🗓 Deadline: May 20, 2025. Submit your EoI 👉 bit.ly/EoIforPHA WACREN peoplespraxis AFREhealth Official #publichealth #coppha

🧠🌍 “Open science by Africa, for Africa.” Early career researchers are reshaping research across the continent — and LIBSENSE is powering the change. 🔗 doi.org/10.1146/katina… #OpenScience #LIBSENSE #AfricaResearch #OpenAccess

Great to see the momentum from the FUTMINNA Open Access Workshop! 🚀 We're excited to see continued support for open access through initiatives like these. Looking forward to the workshop outcomes in #Lagos! 👏 #OABooks #ScholarlyPublishing

WACREN is pleased to announce an open call for piloting #RUMBU - a shared, community-governed #repository platform for Nigerian 🇳🇬 institutions. ‘RUMBU’ aims to bridge the infrastructure gap in Nigeria's research landscape, to foster collaboration, enhance hashtag#research

DEADLINE – 6 JUNE – 2nd EIFL AJOLinfo WACREN call for proposals to strengthen no-fee #OpenAccess publishing in Africa. Eligibility & application details bit.ly/4jW2so1. See projects funded through 1st first call – bit.ly/3YS2RPR

The latest issue of our #eNGAGE newsletter is here! Read now: wacren.net/en/media-centr…. Learn about: ✅ WACREN's new cyber threat intelligence platform ✅ WACREN's decision to host future annual conferences on campuses ✅ A new era of open access book publishing in Nigeria 🇳🇬