Collaborate
Work with peers across Africa to solve common challenges and share best practices.
Access Resources
Find guidelines, templates, training materials, and technical resources to strengthen your respository.
Build Capacity
Enhance skills and knowledge through community-driven learning and workshops.
Advance Open Science
Support open access and interoperability to increase the visibility and impact of African research
WHO WE ARE
A Pan-African Community Driving Repository Excellence
We are a community of practice established under the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking to support the development and sustainability of open repositories across Africa. Through collaboration and shared knowledge, we enable institutions to preserve, showcase and share African research for global impact.
Purpose
Across Africa, universities are producing significant research outputs, yet much of this work remains underrepresented in global discovery systems. Institutional repositories exist, but challenges persist in metadata quality, interoperability, visibility, and long-term sustainability. At the same time, there is limited structured collaboration between librarians, repository managers and system engineers across institutions and countries.
The Open Pan-African Repository Community of Practice addresses this gap by creating a shared platform for coordination, capacity building, and knowledge exchange.
Supports
The Open Pan-African Repository Community of Practice is a structured, member-based platform that supports:
- Collaboration between repository managers, librarians and technical teams
- Sharing of tools, templates and implementation guides Capacity building through coordinated training programmes
- Alignment towards continental metadata aggregation and interoperability
- Development of a sustainable African open research ecosystem It serves as a practical support environment for institutions implementing or strengthening open repositories
Ready to Get Started?
Become a member to access resources, connect with peers, and contribute to the growth of open repositories in Africa.
