The ACU in collaboration with the United States International University-Africa (USIU), brought together a group of HR in HE professionals, vice chancellors and registrars from over 40 universities across East Africa for a two-day convention ...

As part of the ACU’s work on open science, we are supporting a small cohort of early career researchers from member institutions in developing countries to attend a short course in the data science approaches and skills that are ...

The 2014 Publishers for Development conference took place in Oxford recently under the theme Research Matters for Developing Countries. The conference was attended primarily by academic librarians, international publishers, ...

Twelve universities from Africa have been selected to take part in a new ACU-run project that will help them to develop their academic staff early on in their careers.

The project, called ‘ Tags: Africa, research, training, early careers, capacity building, open access, STARS

The latest edition of the ACU’s membership magazine, The Bulletin, is now available to members. The Bulletin aims to keep ...

Open access to research data will be at the heart of discussions when dignitaries from the European Commission, and the U.S. and Australian governments meet with leaders in the data community at the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Launch and ...

The University of Nairobi recently adopted an open access policy to research articles and other academic material produced by its staff, and simultaneously launched an open access repository. The ACU and

The African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) will host a meeting themed 'Open access and research publication: Making sense of UK government proposals in African Studies' between 13.00h and 17 ...