Raw data for Infrastructure and Awareness Landscape Analysis in sub-Saharan Africa

Persistent identifiers that are well-connected are essential for enhancing research, researchers, and research institutions. The comprehensive raw data shared on PIDs infrastructure and awareness landscape analysis in sub-Saharan Africa is taken from service providers and organizations, including Open DOAR, the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), the Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data), UNESCO, Lyrasis (Dspace), Dataverse, Open Journal System (OJS), among others. The data shared here was collected in August 2023. The data shared are secondary data, and the position is strictly based on the primary source data author. The data is restricted to what is available on the internet and does not include locally hosted offline data.

Further analysis of the raw data suggested some salient implications for PIDs awareness in the region. Variations were observed across the various data sources, while some interesting correlations emerged from the collected data. There are countries with some PIDs infrastructure, while others are yet to establish a visible presence in PIDs infrastructure. The visibility of PIDs is somewhat related to the awareness level as well as the policy established on open access in the represented countries across the region.