A researcher's Guide to Metadata Integration Increasing Discoverability of African Research
Crossref, AfricArxiv, and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) joined forces to host a series of workshops aimed at supporting discoverability or research in Africa through metadata and integrations between repositories and indexing platforms.
by Rosa Clark, Susan Collins, Vanessa Fairhurst, Jennifer Kemp, Johanssen Obanda, Joy Owango, and Kylie van Zyl
Published onApr 22, 2022
A researcher's Guide to Metadata Integration Increasing Discoverability of African Research
Publishers, researchers, editors, service providers, hosting platforms, funders, and librarians.
Meet the speakers
Johanssen Obanda- Community Manager, AfricArXiv
Joy Owango- Executive Director, TCC Africa
Vanessa Fairhurst- Community Engagement Manager, Crossref
Rosa Clark- Community and Events Manager, Crossref
Jennifer Kemp- Head of Partnership, Crossref
Susan Collins- Community Engagement Manager
Kylie van Zyl- Journal Assessment Officer, African Journal Online(AJOL)
PART I
The first session was held on 21st April 2022 and covered the topic:
Who Crossref is, what they do for the benefit of the scholarly community
Recording of the session
Part II
The second session held on 28th April 2022, featured a presentation from Jennifer Kemp, Head of Partnership at Crossref on How Crossref metadata integrates with scholarly research tools and discovery systems.
Recording of the session
Part 2-Researcher's Guide to Understanding Metadata Integration Discoverability of African Research
Part III
The last part of the series was held on 5th May 2022, on the topic “How members work with Crossref to register research content” presented by Susan Collins- Community Engagement Manager at Crossref. The session also featured a presentation by Kylie van Zyl- Journal Assessment Officer at African Journal Online(AJOL) who guided the participants on Crossref DOI’s at AJOL.
Recording of the session
About Crossref
Crossref is an official digital object identifier Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. Crossref makes research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. We're a not-for-profit membership organization that exists to make scholarly communications better.
AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository. We partner with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers on the African continent and globally.
AJOL is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Millions of monthly downloads by site users from nearly every country in the world are an indication of the need and widespread use of the AJOL initiative.
The Training Centre in Communication(TCC Africa), is the first African-based training center to teach effective communication skills to scientists. TCC Africa is an award-winningTrust, established as a non-profit entity in 2006 and is registered in Kenya. TCC Africa provides capacity support in improving researcher’s output and visibility through training in scholarly and science communication.
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