Call for Papers

Goals and topic of the call: The objective of the special issue is to create a compendium of sustainable solutions to major health issues, focusing on the most effective, sustainable and easily implementable ones, publishing and curating, along the selected papers, an open-source repository of viable ways to tackle major health issues affecting the African continent, its inhabitants and beyond, ensuring a way for humanity to minimize the damage made to the environment, the rest of the ecosystems and itself. As stated by the World Health Organization, One Health is an approach calling for "the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment". Open Technologies are, on the other hand, and in general terms, software, hardware and human capital development solutions, often created in a collaborative public manner, released on permissive licenses to grant individuals and collectives the rights to use, study, change, manage and redistribute the code, blueprints, and techniques to anyone.

General characteristics of the call: All papers will be freely accessible for viewing and download over the internet following open access standards, with their own assigned DOI, indexed in ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), ERIHPLUS, Google Scholar, Crossref, Sherpa Romeo, Scilit, among others.

Information about the journal: African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN: 2789-3413; DOI prefix: 10.51483/AFJHSS) is an international double-blind peer-reviewed open-access journal, published biannually. It is an international open-access journal platform based in South Africa, providing the best research service and publication with the distinct objective of discovering cutting-edge advancement in knowledge.

Instructions for submissions: Please submit your paper by email to the editors [enric.garcia@urv.cat]. No word limit. Papers accepted in English only. The editors encourage the use of FAIR data and other open standards, the inclusion of raw datasets, visual summaries, open-source code and open-hardware blueprints.

Manuscript submission deadline: 30-09-2023.
Rolling notification of acceptance: Approximately 30-45 days after submission.