Access 2 Perspectives – Conversations. All about Open Science Communication

About Access 2 Perspectives – Conversations. All about Open Science Communication

Bridging Academic landscapes. At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a successful and joyful career. This podcast brings to you insights and conversations around the topics of Scholarly Reading, Writing and Publishing, Career Development inside and outside Academia, Research Project Management, Research Integrity, and Open Science. Learn more about our work at https://access2perspectives.org

Publisher

Dr. Jo Havemann

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jan 2022

Latest episode

10 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

145 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Jul 2026

   Make Data Count - Advancing meaningful evaluation of open data

   Despite advances in open data, crucial questions remain about how data are being used and for what purposes. The Make Data Count initiative is driving progress on this front by building tools and community practices that help better measure, understand, and recognize the use and impact of data as an important research output.In this webinar, Make Data Count shared key updates from its ongoing projects, including insights from the Data Citation Corpus, a large, open collection of data citations, and the work with HELIOS Open to advance the implementation of data evaluation in institutional assessment processes. We also highlighted practical ways in which the community can get involved with data evaluation today.#openscience #data #citation #research #africa

2. 

   10 Jul 2026

   AJOL's Journey in Strengthening African Scholarly Publishing

   This session provides an overview of the history of African Journals Online (AJOL), highlighting key milestones and lessons learned from supporting scholarly publishing across Africa. Participants are expected to gain insight into the Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) framework and its role in strengthening quality assurance, transparency, and best practices in scholarly publishing. The session also showcases AJOL’s advocacy for Diamond Open Access to promote equitable and sustainable scholarly communication. Finally, the presentation highlights the ALMASI Project, and explores opportunities for continued collaboration and capacity strengthening within the African research and publishing ecosystem.#AJOL#AfricanResearch#OpenScience#OpenAccess#DiamondOpenAccess#ScholarlyPublishing#AcademicPublishing#ResearchInAfrica#Research#Science

3. 

   10 Jul 2026

   DataCite Insights: Strengthening Open Science and Research Visibility in Africa

   In this session, we explore how persistent identifiers and open research infrastructure are transforming research visibility and discoverability across Africa.Mohamad Mostafa (DataCite) opens with an overview of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, particularly its second pillar on open research infrastructure and explains how tools like DOIs, ORCID IDs, and ROR IDs work together to make research outputs findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). He walks through DataCite's global community of over 1,700 member organizations across 69 countries, its Fabrica platform for DOI registration, and the consortium model that makes adoption cost-effective for institutions across Eastern and Southern Africa through the UbuntuNet Alliance.Ahmed Siyad (CEO, SomaliREN) then shares the story behind SORER — the Somali Research and Education Repository — a centralized, multi-institutional platform built to address low research visibility, plagiarism concerns, and limited access to global scholarly infrastructure. He covers how SomaliREN integrated DOI minting through the DataCite/UbuntuNet consortium, adopted ORCID IDs, established the Somali Identity Federation (SIF), and achieved FAIR compliance — making Somali research outputs accessible and interoperable on a global scale.The session also touches on the importance of hosting research infrastructure on the African continent itself, in line with the CARE Principles and the mission of AfricArXiv.This webinar is part of the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series, supported by Invest in Open Infrastructure and co-organized by UbuntuNet Alliance and Access to Perspectives.Learn more and access past webinars at www.africarxiv.orgFollow for future sessions on open access, persistent identifiers, open science policy, and more.#openscience #PersistentIdentifiers #openaccess #data #research

Who has been a guest on Access 2 Perspectives – Conversations. All about Open Science Communication

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jonny Coates
• Ogunniyi Tolulope Joseph
• Vanessa Fairhurst

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

25,122,895

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

68