An Open Science webinar FROM LIBSENSE & PUBLICHEALTH.AFRICA 

Building capacity for open access publishing in public health

10am UTC, Wednesday June 29th, 2022.

Organising group

Omo Oaiya

WACREN

Dick Heller

Peoples-Praxis

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 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.

  • Introduction: Open Science in Africa and the LIBSENSE/PHA project (Omo) 5 minutes
  • Results of LIBSENSE/PHA project. (Dominic) 10 minutes
  • OA publishing tips (Iryna) 15 minutes
  • Q&A and discussion to include shared experience from African journals (Omo) 20 minutes
  • Next steps: planning an education programme (Dick) 10 minutes

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