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 increasing 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 to...
Developing Countries (DCs), particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are suffering from scien...
Digital technologies and global electronic networks present unparalleled opportunities for internati...
The paper notes that advances in technology have resulted in the emergence of open access publishing...
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...
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...
The purpose of the study was to examine the status of Africa in the open access environment as well ...
International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science 2018, Vol.8(2)This study was condu...
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) 2017This paper is based on the findings of a study that ...
This study investigated current publishing practices among scholarly journals in Africa, while explo...
The following research has been carried out in order to assess the current state of access to both ...
International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science 2018, Vol.8(2)This study was condu...
This study investigated current publishing practices among scholarly journals in Africa, while explo...
Developing Countries (DCs), particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are suffering from scien...
Digital technologies and global electronic networks present unparalleled opportunities for internati...
The paper notes that advances in technology have resulted in the emergence of open access publishing...
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...
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...
The purpose of the study was to examine the status of Africa in the open access environment as well ...
International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science 2018, Vol.8(2)This study was condu...
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) 2017This paper is based on the findings of a study that ...
This study investigated current publishing practices among scholarly journals in Africa, while explo...
The following research has been carried out in order to assess the current state of access to both ...
International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science 2018, Vol.8(2)This study was condu...
This study investigated current publishing practices among scholarly journals in Africa, while explo...
Developing Countries (DCs), particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), are suffering from scien...
Digital technologies and global electronic networks present unparalleled opportunities for internati...
The paper notes that advances in technology have resulted in the emergence of open access publishing...