Open Science

This site has been prepared by PublicHealth.Africa to provide resources about Open Science to the editors of journals that might publish articles on public health as well as to researchers who might want to publish their research in an open format. This is aimed in particular at journals and researchers in the Global South, but will have general relevance.

The objectives are:

• To understand the concepts, advantages and disadvantages of Open Science in relation to public health research
• For journal editors to know how to set up your journal for open publishing
• For researchers to know how to submit your research paper and the underlying data so that they are freely available for open access
• To consider how to explore, develop and advocate for new approaches to the open publication of research and the underlying data

Access to online resources about Open Science

Although some of these resources will be repeated in later sections, you will find links to a number of useful resources about Open Science on this page from PublicHealth.Africa.

Please explore the pages which follow - they include an introduction to Open Science, Information for journal editors, information for researchers wanting to publish, a section on innovations in Open Science and on Advocacy for Open Science. You can also access subsequent pages through the navigation bar at the top of each page.

This resource was prepared for PublicHealth.Africa by Professor Richard Heller with input from many others. We will welcome all suggestions for additions to the resource, or for collaboration - please make contact at https://www.publichealth.africa/contact/.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.