Science Communication in Open Science Era
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The presentation highlights the importance and opportunities science communication offers to the open science movements. It describes the various platforms and tactics that can be adopted to enhance science communication in the era of open science.
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Ideas on Open Science for Public Health in Africa
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This presentation focuses on the results and implications of a research jointly conducted by PublicHealth.Africa and LIBSENSE to discover the proportion of African journals in Public Health that publish their articles in various categories of open access. The presentation was done at the LIBSENSE Open Science Symposium - Ghana.
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NRENs as providers of Open Scholarly Infrastructure: How GARNET Supports Open Science in Ghana
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This presentation highlights the actions GARNET has and is still taking to support the building blocks of open science in Ghana. This was presented at the LIBSENSE Open Science Symposium - Ghana in Accra on Wednesday, Oct 19, 2022.
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National Open Science Policy Template
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This template was developed by the LIBSENSE Policy Working Group. The aim is to provide a draft text of an open science policy, which can be used and amended by any country interested in adopting an open science policy. The template expands the scope of the earlier Version 1 to move beyond open access articles and includes research data and other research outputs.
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Open Access Publication in Public Health Research in African Journals
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A presentation made by Dominick Adjei Dankwa on the results of the collaborative work between LIBSENSE and Public Health.Africa. Presented at the LIBSENSE-PHA webinar on Wednesday, June 29, 2022.
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LIBSENSE: An African Framework for Sustainable Open science
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Oma Oaiya, CSO of WACREN presented at the LIBSENSE-PublicHealth.Africa webinar on open access publication of public health research, on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 on Zoom.
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LIBSENSE: Pan-African Library/NREN Collaborations around Open Science
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A presentation on the topic: LIBSENSE: Pan-African Library/NREN Collaborations around Open Science at the Institutional, National and Regional Levels presented at the Geneva Workshop on Innovation in Scholarly Communication
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This is a combination of the presentation slides of various speakers at the LIBSENSE-DORA Webinar on Research Assessment in Africa. The webinar was held in March 2022. The purpose of the one-hour webinar is to discuss how open science practices and research assessment reform may be integrated into regional assessment policies across African higher education institutions, taking cognizance of all the contextual peculiarities.
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Institutional Open Science Policy Template
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This template was developed by the LIBSENSE Policy Working Group. The aim is to provide a draft text of an open science policy, which can be used and amended by any institution interested in adopting an open science policy. This template expands the scope of the earlier Version 1, to move beyond open access articles and includes research data and other types of research outputs.
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Checklist for universities on implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
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COAR2022 – An African Framework for Sustainable Open Science
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A presentation by Omo Oaiya (Chief Strategy Officer, WACREN) at the Annual Meeting of COAR on May 19, 2022. Title: 'LIBSENSE - An African Framework for Sustainable Open Science'
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Update from the 2nd LIBSENSE Regional Policy Development Workshop
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The document is a Compendium of Open Access/Open Science Policy Case Studies from African Higher Education Institutions developed by the LIBSENSE team after the 2nd LIBSENSE Regional Policy Development Workshop colocated at WACREN 2022 in Abidjan
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