TCC Africa, Knowledge Unlatched, and Digital Science held a workshop for the Midlands State University academic community on open acces research discoverability solutions, Dimensions and the Open Research Library.
Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), together with Knowledge Unlatched and Digital Science were honored to host the Midlands State University academic community for a workshop on using open-access research discoverability tools, Dimensions, and the Open Research Library to increase their research output visibility and discoverability.
Dimensions by digital science is a modern, innovative, linked research data infrastructure and tool, re-imagining discovery and access to research: grants, publications, citations, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents in one place.
Website: www.dimensions.ai
The Open Research Library (ORL) by Knowledge Unlatched, is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible to everyone. Libraries investing in the Open Research Library contribute to the development of dedicated infrastructure for the global research community while participating libraries have the opportunity to benefit from a set of exclusive services.
Website: https://openresearchlibrary.org/home
Midlands State University is a government-owned university in Zimbabwe. The university has 9 faculties (Agriculture, Arts, Commerce, Education, Engineering, Law, Science, Social Sciences, and Medicine) offering a wide variety of courses and many specialist programs. The university is accredited through the National Council for Higher Education, under the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education of Zimbabwe.
Website: https://ww5.msu.ac.zw/
The Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), is an award-winning Trust, established as a non-profit entity in 2006 and is registered in Kenya. TCC Africa provides capacity support in improving researchers output and visibility through training in scholarly and science communication. We are located at the University of Nairobi, Chiromo Campus.
Website: https://www.tcc-africa.org/
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