Nature

African scientists leverage open hardware

Publishing date: 2020-06-15 Published on: Nature summary: This article looks at how a growing emphasis on do-it-yourself science is helping researchers to equip labs in resource-limited areas. For example, “https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2018.e00047">Actifield< n automated open source actimeter for rodents developed by Victor Kumbol at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.

Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing

Publishing date: 2020-05-12 Published on: Nature summary: Draft scientific manuscripts tend to be confidential, however this article presents the approach of Olga Botvinnik who managed her paper like a piece of open-source software.