This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research community through the promotion of a concept known as Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and with an eye to its implications for increas-ing the circulation of research through such means as open access (OA) publishing models. We analyze the programmatic discourse of Canada’s International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) African research initiatives, and report on an IDRC research and development project assessing the means of increasing access to African scholarly journals through the use of open source software platforms and open access publishing and archiving models. Consistent with IDRC’s multi-year effort t...
Digital technologies and global electronic networks present unparalleled opportunities for internati...
This paper presents the experience with open access (OA) publishing by researchers in an academic re...
In the 1970s and early 1980s, parastatal and independent indigenous publishing houses were establish...
This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research commu...
This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research commu...
This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of t...
The purpose of the study was to examine the status of Africa in the open access environment as well ...
The following research has been carried out in order to assess the current state of access to both ...
This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of t...
While open access publishing models offer solutions to the marginalization of African research, this...
Knowledge, as a prerequisite for development, is contingent on information. The main value of inform...
Existing types of scholarly communication/publishing worldwide and specifically in Africa is present...
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) 2017This paper is based on the findings of a study that ...
The presentation reviews the impact of open access (OA) and how research institutes and universities...
Digital media, with their capacity to reduce the cost of information dissemination and to effortless...
Digital technologies and global electronic networks present unparalleled opportunities for internati...
This paper presents the experience with open access (OA) publishing by researchers in an academic re...
In the 1970s and early 1980s, parastatal and independent indigenous publishing houses were establish...
This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research commu...
This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research commu...
This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of t...
The purpose of the study was to examine the status of Africa in the open access environment as well ...
The following research has been carried out in order to assess the current state of access to both ...
This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of t...
While open access publishing models offer solutions to the marginalization of African research, this...
Knowledge, as a prerequisite for development, is contingent on information. The main value of inform...
Existing types of scholarly communication/publishing worldwide and specifically in Africa is present...
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) 2017This paper is based on the findings of a study that ...
The presentation reviews the impact of open access (OA) and how research institutes and universities...
Digital media, with their capacity to reduce the cost of information dissemination and to effortless...
Digital technologies and global electronic networks present unparalleled opportunities for internati...
This paper presents the experience with open access (OA) publishing by researchers in an academic re...
In the 1970s and early 1980s, parastatal and independent indigenous publishing houses were establish...