Recording of an EIFL webinar (55 minutes) on how to set up and implement mentorship programmes for editorial assistants. Panellists Clinton Aigbavboa from the Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation and Felix Mburu Njoroge from the East African Journal of Neurological Sciences (EAJNS) share their experiences of building editorial capacity through mentorship and discuss the impact of mentorship programmes on journals and editorial capacity.

See the webinar slides 

• Clinton Aigbavboa: Building Editorial Capacity through Mentorship in Diamond Open Access Journals: Lessons from Africa
• Felix Mburu Njoroge: Building editorial capacity through mentorship: Reflections from the EAJNS Journey

This is one of a series of EIFL webinars based on knowledge and experience gained from implementing projects to strengthen no-fee (Diamond) open access journal publishing. The presenters are grantees of the ‘Collaboration for sustainable open access publishing in Africa’ project, implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network), with funding from Wellcome.

See the recordings and slides of other webinars in the series

• Training programmes for journal editorial teams, reviewers and authors
• Optimizing journal processes and workflows (1)
• Optimizing journal processes and workflows (2)
• Motivating peer reviewers and using Reviewer Credits
• Journal communications, marketing and visibility
• How to use expert audits for journal development