Landscape study conducted by EIFL providing an overview of open access (OA) journals in Africa that do not charge fees for either authors or readers (often referred to as Diamond OA journals). The study is based on survey responses from 199 journals, 21 institutional, national and continental platforms that host Diamond OA journals, and 25 country reports with information about current funding and financial sustainability approaches and challenges, institutional in-kind support, incentives, and collaborations among Diamond OA journals, needs and strategies to advance Diamond OA in Africa. 

This landscape study was conducted as a part of the three-year ‘Collaboration for sustainable open access publishing in Africa’ project (November 2023- October 2026), implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) with support from Wellcome. 

See the online version of the report. 

Country reports were provided by (listed alphabetically by country name): Kamel Belhamel, University of Bejaia (Algeria); Joseph Sagbohan, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Ecole Polytechnique d'Abomey-Calavi (Bénin); Naniki S Maphakwane, Botswana Open University (Botswana); Zoé Aubierge Ouangré, Université Norbert Zongo (Burkina Faso); Cécile Outtara-Coulibaly, Université Virtuelle de Côte d’Ivoire (Côte d’Ivoire); Eliezer Bisimwa Mwongane, Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs (Democratic Republic of Congo); Getnet Lemma, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia); Richard Bruce Lamptey, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Library (Ghana); Arnold Mwanzu, Aga Khan University (Kenya); Buhle Mbambo-Thata, National University of Lesotho Libraries (Lesotho); Patrick Mapulanga, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (Malawi); Abdrahamane Anne, DER Santé Publique (Mali); Rachid Ayssi and Fadoua El Maguiri, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (Morocco); Horacio Zimba, Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique); Anna Leonard, University of Namibia (Namibia); Basiru Adetomiwa, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State and Fatimah Jibril Abduldayan, Federal University of Technology, Minna (Nigeria); Ina Smith and Susan Veldsman, Academy of Sciences in South Africa (South Africa); Innocent Azilan, Universités de Toulon et de Lomé (Togo); Bessem Aamira, CNUDST (Tunisia); Eness M. Miyanda-Chitumbo, The University of Zambia (Zambia); and Blessing Chiparausha, Bindura University of Science Education (Zimbabwe).