This is part of the LIBSENSE activities to celebrate the #OAWeek (International Open Access Week). Register here - wacren.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @doaj.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is part of the LIBSENSE activities to celebrate the #OAWeek (International Open Access Week). Register here - wacren.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @doaj.bsky.social
This is more like it! Emmanuel Boakye at #Metascience2025 giving us a whistle-stop tour of #OpenScience initiatives in #Africa, including the African Reproducibility Network (AREN), LIBSENSE, an African counterpart to Zenodo (Baobab?), training resources, etc...
July 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This is more like it! Emmanuel Boakye at #Metascience2025 giving us a whistle-stop tour of #OpenScience initiatives in #Africa, including the African Reproducibility Network (AREN), LIBSENSE, an African counterpart to Zenodo (Baobab?), training resources, etc...
It's Diamond #OA Day at @wacren.bsky.social Conference 2026 💎
Mary Felix-Maina @oapenbooks.bsky.social joins partners to share expertise around the technical infrastructure that underpins open scholarly communication
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/y4PHiSM
#WACREN2026
Photo: Daniele Levis, Unsplash
Mary Felix-Maina @oapenbooks.bsky.social joins partners to share expertise around the technical infrastructure that underpins open scholarly communication
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/y4PHiSM
#WACREN2026
Photo: Daniele Levis, Unsplash
Diamond Open Access Day
Organised by WACREN within the broader LIBSENSE and AfricaConnect4 initiatives, and held alongside the LIBSENSE Open Science Symposium and WACREN 2026 Conference, the event brings together…
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March 24, 2026 at 9:02 AM
It's Diamond #OA Day at @wacren.bsky.social Conference 2026 💎
Mary Felix-Maina @oapenbooks.bsky.social joins partners to share expertise around the technical infrastructure that underpins open scholarly communication
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/y4PHiSM
#WACREN2026
Photo: Daniele Levis, Unsplash
Mary Felix-Maina @oapenbooks.bsky.social joins partners to share expertise around the technical infrastructure that underpins open scholarly communication
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/y4PHiSM
#WACREN2026
Photo: Daniele Levis, Unsplash
#LIBSENSE is proud to join the global 🌍#ScholarlyCommunication community in celebrating International #OpenAccessWeek 🔓2025 (Oct 20–26)
👉 Explore our exciting line-up of activities for the week: libsense.ren.africa/open-access-... @coar-repositories.bsky.social @eifl.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
👉 Explore our exciting line-up of activities for the week: libsense.ren.africa/open-access-... @coar-repositories.bsky.social @eifl.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#LIBSENSE is proud to join the global 🌍#ScholarlyCommunication community in celebrating International #OpenAccessWeek 🔓2025 (Oct 20–26)
👉 Explore our exciting line-up of activities for the week: libsense.ren.africa/open-access-... @coar-repositories.bsky.social @eifl.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
👉 Explore our exciting line-up of activities for the week: libsense.ren.africa/open-access-... @coar-repositories.bsky.social @eifl.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
This week, we joined @crossref.bsky.social Accra, where our CMO shared our contributions to advancing #openscience through the LIBSENSE programme. He talked about our #repositories, PIDs service and publishing platform - libsense.ren.africa/home. Watch out for the 'PIDs Clinic' 🤗 at #WACREN2025 in 🇸🇳
March 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This week, we joined @crossref.bsky.social Accra, where our CMO shared our contributions to advancing #openscience through the LIBSENSE programme. He talked about our #repositories, PIDs service and publishing platform - libsense.ren.africa/home. Watch out for the 'PIDs Clinic' 🤗 at #WACREN2025 in 🇸🇳
Join the LIBSENSE–DOAJ Webinar on strengthening #African journals! 22 Oct 2025|10 UTC|Zoom.Participants will:
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 lnkd.in/edxZCST4 @libsense.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 lnkd.in/edxZCST4 @libsense.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Join the LIBSENSE–DOAJ Webinar on strengthening #African journals! 22 Oct 2025|10 UTC|Zoom.Participants will:
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 lnkd.in/edxZCST4 @libsense.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 lnkd.in/edxZCST4 @libsense.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social
WACREN will hold the #OpenScience Symposium – The Gambia 🇬🇲 as part of the pre-events of #WACREN2026 in Banjul.
It forms part of #LIBSENSE National Open Science Roadmaps activities aimed at strengthening national open science policies across Africa.
#digitalsovereignty #openaccess
It forms part of #LIBSENSE National Open Science Roadmaps activities aimed at strengthening national open science policies across Africa.
#digitalsovereignty #openaccess
March 2, 2026 at 2:26 PM
WACREN will hold the #OpenScience Symposium – The Gambia 🇬🇲 as part of the pre-events of #WACREN2026 in Banjul.
It forms part of #LIBSENSE National Open Science Roadmaps activities aimed at strengthening national open science policies across Africa.
#digitalsovereignty #openaccess
It forms part of #LIBSENSE National Open Science Roadmaps activities aimed at strengthening national open science policies across Africa.
#digitalsovereignty #openaccess
#LIBSENSE is hosting an #OpenScience ECR Leadership Workshop on April 28-29, 2026, for early career researchers from Nigeria.
🔹 Pilot program for co-creating leadership frameworks and toolkits
🔹 Selected participants will be ECR Champions
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2026
libsense.ren.africa/news/696a563...
🔹 Pilot program for co-creating leadership frameworks and toolkits
🔹 Selected participants will be ECR Champions
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2026
libsense.ren.africa/news/696a563...
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
#LIBSENSE is hosting an #OpenScience ECR Leadership Workshop on April 28-29, 2026, for early career researchers from Nigeria.
🔹 Pilot program for co-creating leadership frameworks and toolkits
🔹 Selected participants will be ECR Champions
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2026
libsense.ren.africa/news/696a563...
🔹 Pilot program for co-creating leadership frameworks and toolkits
🔹 Selected participants will be ECR Champions
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2026
libsense.ren.africa/news/696a563...
🇳🇬 LIBSENSE (Nigeria) has opened a Call for Interest for the BookHub Discovery & Distribution Pilot - supporting Nigerian Open Access books through discoverability and capacity building.
👉 apc-minna.bookhub.ng/discovery-pi...
👉 apc-minna.bookhub.ng/discovery-pi...
BookHub Discovery and Distribution Pilot — Call for Interest | BookHub
BookHub Discovery and Distribution Pilot - End-of-Year Call for Interest. Support Nigerian-authored Open Access books to achieve national and global visibility.
apc-minna.bookhub.ng
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🇳🇬 LIBSENSE (Nigeria) has opened a Call for Interest for the BookHub Discovery & Distribution Pilot - supporting Nigerian Open Access books through discoverability and capacity building.
👉 apc-minna.bookhub.ng/discovery-pi...
👉 apc-minna.bookhub.ng/discovery-pi...
The LIBSENSE Open Science Symposium - The Gambia highlighted the aspirations, efforts, the gaps and most importantly the commitment of the research and education community to advance in open science in all its facets. Speaking were the Minister of Higher Education and the SG for UNESCO Gambia.
March 23, 2026 at 11:46 PM
The LIBSENSE Open Science Symposium - The Gambia highlighted the aspirations, efforts, the gaps and most importantly the commitment of the research and education community to advance in open science in all its facets. Speaking were the Minister of Higher Education and the SG for UNESCO Gambia.
🌍 LIBSENSE is expanding its Early Career Researchers (ECR) programme! Are you a researcher, librarian, or scholar in #Africa? Join a vibrant community driving collaboration and advocacy in #openscience, #research visibility and integrity.
Apply 👉 libsense.ren.africa/ecr-call-exp.... Deadline-Oct. 31
Apply 👉 libsense.ren.africa/ecr-call-exp.... Deadline-Oct. 31
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🌍 LIBSENSE is expanding its Early Career Researchers (ECR) programme! Are you a researcher, librarian, or scholar in #Africa? Join a vibrant community driving collaboration and advocacy in #openscience, #research visibility and integrity.
Apply 👉 libsense.ren.africa/ecr-call-exp.... Deadline-Oct. 31
Apply 👉 libsense.ren.africa/ecr-call-exp.... Deadline-Oct. 31
WACREN is collaborating with COBESS, CAMES and CINERI to hold a LIBSENSE Workshop on the National Roadmap for Open Science in #Senegal. Universities, researchers, librarians, NREN, funders and policymakers will to co-define a pathway to advance #openscience More here - indico.wacren.net/event/244/
March 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
WACREN is collaborating with COBESS, CAMES and CINERI to hold a LIBSENSE Workshop on the National Roadmap for Open Science in #Senegal. Universities, researchers, librarians, NREN, funders and policymakers will to co-define a pathway to advance #openscience More here - indico.wacren.net/event/244/
Today, I'll be presenting alongside Omo Oaiya from @wacren.bsky.social & #LIBSENSE, as well as colleagues from FUT Minna's @openbookcollective.bsky.social funded project, which is building a new platform for Nigerian book publishers openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/annoucin...
Announcing OBC's First Collective Development Fund award: Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books
Establishing a sustainable platform to empower Nigerian scholars and educators to create, produce, and disseminate high-quality open access books, as well as fostering new collaborations across Academ...
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Today, I'll be presenting alongside Omo Oaiya from @wacren.bsky.social & #LIBSENSE, as well as colleagues from FUT Minna's @openbookcollective.bsky.social funded project, which is building a new platform for Nigerian book publishers openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/annoucin...
Our CSO, Omo Oaiya, highlights #LIBSENSE contribution to shaping open access in Nigeria. Read here => www.linkedin.com/posts/omooai...
May 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Our CSO, Omo Oaiya, highlights #LIBSENSE contribution to shaping open access in Nigeria. Read here => www.linkedin.com/posts/omooai...
Join the LIBSENSE–DOAJ Webinar on strengthening #African journals! Wed. 22 Oct 2025 | 10 UTC| Zoom. Participants will:
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 Register now - buff.ly/VMlSLRP
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 Register now - buff.ly/VMlSLRP
September 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Join the LIBSENSE–DOAJ Webinar on strengthening #African journals! Wed. 22 Oct 2025 | 10 UTC| Zoom. Participants will:
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 Register now - buff.ly/VMlSLRP
✨ gain practical editorial & publishing insights
✨ boost #journal visibility & credibility
✨ learn to counter predatory publishing
🔗 Register now - buff.ly/VMlSLRP
At the LIBSENSE- @doaj.bsky.social #OAWeek2025 webinar, Dr. Oluchi Okere, @DOAJ Ambassador for West Africa, shed more light on:
👉️ what DOAJ indexing represents,
👉️ why it matters for hashtag#African scholarly journals, among others
Watch recorded video here - video.wacren.net/media/Streng...
👉️ what DOAJ indexing represents,
👉️ why it matters for hashtag#African scholarly journals, among others
Watch recorded video here - video.wacren.net/media/Streng...
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
At the LIBSENSE- @doaj.bsky.social #OAWeek2025 webinar, Dr. Oluchi Okere, @DOAJ Ambassador for West Africa, shed more light on:
👉️ what DOAJ indexing represents,
👉️ why it matters for hashtag#African scholarly journals, among others
Watch recorded video here - video.wacren.net/media/Streng...
👉️ what DOAJ indexing represents,
👉️ why it matters for hashtag#African scholarly journals, among others
Watch recorded video here - video.wacren.net/media/Streng...
We’re thrilled to launch LIBSENSE's revitalised online office - a 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
🔎 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
March 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We’re thrilled to launch LIBSENSE's revitalised online office - a 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
🔎 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
This December, WACREN will convene the inaugural Responsible Research Governance (RRG) Workshop at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, to explore what that means in practice.
👉 Registration: lnkd.in/dG_qj3Ph
#LIBSENSE #ResponsibleResearch #ResearchGovernance
👉 Registration: lnkd.in/dG_qj3Ph
#LIBSENSE #ResponsibleResearch #ResearchGovernance
September 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
This December, WACREN will convene the inaugural Responsible Research Governance (RRG) Workshop at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, to explore what that means in practice.
👉 Registration: lnkd.in/dG_qj3Ph
#LIBSENSE #ResponsibleResearch #ResearchGovernance
👉 Registration: lnkd.in/dG_qj3Ph
#LIBSENSE #ResponsibleResearch #ResearchGovernance
🎙 Au Symposium LIBSENSE sur la Science Ouverte, à l’Université de Lomé, le président du RJSAF, Kossi Balao, interpelle sur l’urgence de renforcer la communication scientifique en Afrique.
📌 Une intervention à écouter pour comprendre les enjeux d’une science plus accessible.
👉 youtu.be/5nPtWpQYuso
📌 Une intervention à écouter pour comprendre les enjeux d’une science plus accessible.
👉 youtu.be/5nPtWpQYuso
Le président du RJSAF, Kossi Balao, interpelle sur l'importance de la communication scientifique
YouTube video by RJSAF
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March 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
🎙 Au Symposium LIBSENSE sur la Science Ouverte, à l’Université de Lomé, le président du RJSAF, Kossi Balao, interpelle sur l’urgence de renforcer la communication scientifique en Afrique.
📌 Une intervention à écouter pour comprendre les enjeux d’une science plus accessible.
👉 youtu.be/5nPtWpQYuso
📌 Une intervention à écouter pour comprendre les enjeux d’une science plus accessible.
👉 youtu.be/5nPtWpQYuso
