WritingHub Africa

02/05/2024

Join the on TikTok Live!!!
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 4th May
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (GMT+3)

Topic: Research Concept Mapping and Development

Curious about concept mapping and its role in research development?

Then mark your calendars and join us for an engaging TikTok Live session with Nicholas Outa.

Plus, we'll have an interactive Q&A segment where you can ask your burning questions and get expert insights.

Don't miss out on this valuable opportunity to level up your research game!

This is organized by Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) and WritingHub Africa.

See you on our TikTok !

16/04/2024

In partnership with Eider Africa

Eider Africa is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Postgraduate Students Data Analysis Concerns and Solutions

Time: Apr 20, 2024 09:00 AM Nairobi

See poster for more details and looking forward to a very interactive session

23/01/2024

105 likes, 4 comments. “Whether you call it a problem statement or a statement of the problem, nailing this step is the compass for your entire research journey”

12/01/2024

Exciting News for Scientometrics!

Many journals now mandate machine-readable in-text citations and references, a crucial step forward in enhancing research visibility and discoverability.

As this trend gains momentum, I'm thrilled to offer assistance in navigating this evolution. Let's optimize the scientific landscape together!

28/12/2023

As an editor and author, I've noticed a peculiar trend: reviewers seem to be as elusive as that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

One of my manuscripts has been hanging out in review limbo since 2020, and the Editor has become my pen pal, explaining the intricacies of finding not one, not two, but three elusive reviewers for my manuscript.

And, oh, the joy of being on the other side of the fence! When I wear my academic editor hat for PLoS One and reach out to potential reviewers, it feels like I'm trying to organize a cat parade.

Is open peer review the secret sauce? Should we throw caution to the wind and let the world witness the raw, unfiltered journey of manuscript development through Open peer review?

Or, perhaps, should journals dip into their coffers overflowing with Article Processing Costs and shower our valiant reviewers with gold coins?

Or should we recognize their efforts by encouraging them to register and track their review efforts, as provided for by ReviewerCredits.com.

11/12/2023

We’re slowly entering the era of Public Peer Review.

Scientists are becoming more courageous on social media.

Before, we could never imagine that papers can go viral.

Now they can. And the bigger the claim, the wider it’s discussed.

With this, we’re moving away from “OMG congratulate me, I’ve published in Nature”

to
“I hope my study is rigorous enough to get through all this public scrutiny”.

03/07/2023

We are honored to have our Director Joy Owango as one of the key speakers at the meeting in hosted by the Association of African Universities (AAU). She will be sharing the experiences Public Library of Science (PLOS), TCC Africa and AAU have made on the Higher Education Leadership Open Science Policy Dialogues that they have been facilitating in Eastern, Nothern and Southern Africa.

More on the COREVIP meeting can be found here https://events.aau.org/corevip/

26/06/2023

Exciting partnership update! We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Joy Owango from Africa PID Alliance and Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), along with Amna Babiker from Digital Science. The collaboration with AAU is advancing , African Research and

Join us in celebrating this as we work towards a brighter future for academia in Africa. Olusola Oyewole Nodumo Dhlamini

26/06/2023

This week we are in Malawi at the Inspire PEACH workshop discussing on building a data platform for Covid19 in Africa using AI and Data Science. Pertinent to this discussion will include using Open technology and capacity strengthening on data management.



More about the Africa PID Alliance project can be found here https://zenodo.org/record/7924069

More about the Inspire Peach programme can be found here https://inspiredata.network/

06/06/2023

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𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐬 & 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲

Dimensions is a dynamic easy to use research platform that has transformed the way research is discovered accessed and analyzed. It is the world’s largest linked research information dataset. All publications and datasets together with rich contextual information – freely available for personal, non-commercial use. With Dimensions you can explore and understand the connection between publications, grants, clinical trials, patents, datasets and policy documents.
Publications, citations, datasets and the context around those publications are all key pieces of information when it comes to understanding research activities and results. Dimensions provides researchers with free access to these essential data. And if your academic institution has signed up to Dimensions Analytics, you’ll have access to additional data and tools. Please join us , by registering via https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkfuuqrDsuGtdPETplhKHdYOB1Z1DeKPa

22/05/2023

AfricArxiv and PeerRef have agreed to work together to promote and coordinate open peer review of preprint manuscripts authored by African scholars. Read the press announcement at https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/pub/peerref-and-africarxiv-partnership. Researchers who have shared their article manuscri...

19/05/2023

What a great initiative for the African continent!

Why we need for indigenous knowledge.
A case of losing indigenous knowledge from Kenya and how to manage such and future narratives https://lnkd.in/d2hjSEtw
Published in the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI)- a parastatal under the Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry. http://www.kipi.go.ke/

17/05/2023

Concept note of the Africa PID Alliance published in Zenodo https://lnkd.in/dB3ZtQAG

Persistent Identifiers ( ) are the pillars of an interoperable, persistent and reliable Open Research Infrastructure. This is the reason why a lot of countries/regions and organizations took the initiative to contribute to this network and help promote the use of PIDs through their academic and publishing ecosystems.
One of the innovations that the Africa PID Alliance will bring is a specific prefix for Africa that will provide;
🔷Ownership to African researcher over their content,
🔷Promotion of African content and output in terms of research data, works, publications, patents, etc..
🔷Preservation of African indigenous knowledge and works and cultural heritage under a dedicated prefix.
This work is an effort towards embracing diversity, equity and inclusion, based on the different needs of the different communities as we know that different communities have different needs.

17/05/2023

11/05/2023

One of our directors Nicholas Outa has just joined Plos One Editorial Board.Editorial Board, an journal publishing trusted research in over 200 subject areas across science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities.

Thank you to our partner Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) for the support towards this achievement and congratulations Mr Outa.