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Digital Open Science Tools (DOSTs)

= any digital tool (for-profit, non-profit and community-led) used in open research

doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8414.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4013974

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Mapping the DOST Landscape

Link to dataset (Spreadsheet);

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4013811.

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Findings

Tool providers across workflow showing the number of tools per workflow step.

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Findings

Regions displayed are the United States of America (US), the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and other parts of the world with concentration on US territory. ‘Other’ includes Argentina (n=1), Australia (n=2), Brazil (n=1), Canada (n=7), Colombia (n=1), Mexico (n=1), South Africa (n=1), Switzerland (n=5), with a total of n=242.

Number of tools per host location.

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Example T&Cs of two entities within the OS ecosystem.

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the pan-African � Portal

- from researchers working in and about Africa

Submission of Research items

- checkpoints for quality assurance

Submission Moderation

- assigning a DOI to each submitted item�- inked to the researchers ORCID ID

- indexing in scholarly search engines

Discoverability

africarxiv.org

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Launch of AfricArXiv locally hosted

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The Challenges

African researchers tend to be less integrated into international research networks

Low visibility of African scholarly output internationally

Restricted access to research funding

Language barriers

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10 African OA Principles

Academic Research and knowledge from and about Africa should be freely available to all who wish to access, use or reuse it while at the same time being protected from misuse and misappropriation.

africarxiv.pubpub.org/african-principles-for-open-access-in-scholarly-communication

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- from researchers working in and about Africa

Submission of Research items

- checkpoints for quality assurance

Submission Moderation

- assigning a DOI to each submitted item�- inked to the researchers ORCID ID

- indexing in scholarly search engines

Discoverability

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‘Decolonize Science’

We are translating 180 English research articles

by African scholars across various disciplines

to isiZulu, Northern Sotho, Yoruba, Hausa, Luganda, and Amharic.

masakhane.io/ongoing-projects/masakhane-mt-decolonise-science

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Open Access

OA webinars

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Open Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

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Country profiles:�Research output and Open Access adoption

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Establishing ORCID-facilitated multi-stakeholder consortia for efficient scholarly knowledge exchange

Facilitating African institutional reputation building by enabling institution-owned scientometrics
Stocktaking of existing institutional digital scholarly infrastructure
Complementing existing infrastructure with added digital features and services
Ensuring adoption of PIDs
Fostering best possible discoverability and indexing in open scholarly databases �such as The Lens, BASEsearch, a.o.

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DEMO:

Mapping Open Science Resources from Around the World

Dr. Jo Havemann�ORCID: 0000-0002-6157-1494

Website: access2perspectives.org

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Guiding questions

What is Open Science?
Why do we talk about Open Science at all?
What if my discipline does not practice OS?
What are region-specific implementations and guidelines for OS?
What OS resources are available in MY language?

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Search the map by

OS principle
Discipline
Language
World region
Research workflow step
Resource type
Stakeholder

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By world region

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By language

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Recommendations for inclusive research project management

Ensure local relevance and community buy-in
Inclusive project design and planning
Keep project plan flexible
Add project sustainability plan
Stakeholder analysis
Anticipate and facilitate long-term partnerships
Add expertise on

Socio-political and historical context
CRedIT contribution taxonomy
Be specific about regions and interpretation of results

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