Building capacity for open access publishing in public health: An Open Science webinar from LIBSENSE & PublicHealth.Africa
Date and time: 10am UTC, Wednesday June 29th, 2022.
Purpose: To present and discuss the results of a study of open access parameters in African public health journals, share good practices and discuss an education programme to facilitate open publishing in Africa.
Participants: Participants in the LIBSENSE – PublicHealth.Africa research project and wider members of the collaboration; African journal editors; librarians, World Association of Medical Editors; other interested people and organisations.
Organising group: Omo Oaiya (WACREN), Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Dominc Dankwah (UHAS), Khalif Bile (SHAJ), Maggie Winker (WAME), Modibo Sangre (UMali), Dick Heller (Peoples-Praxis).
Agenda:
- Introduction: open science in Africa and the LIBSENSE/PHA project.
- Results of LIBSENSE/PHA project.
- OA publishing guidance.
- Q&A and discussion to include shared experiences from African journals.
- Next steps: planning an education programme.
Register with this link – https://wacren.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NmllJRSvRGW5sqcTFZh3gg