Access to Africa's knowledge : publishing development research and measuring value
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2010
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Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, ZA
Abstract
While open access publishing models offer solutions to the marginalization of African research, this paper argues for a re-evaluation of the values that underpin recognition in scholarly publishing. When it comes to implementing scholarly publication policies, the vision of technological power and development-focused scientific output is undermined by a conservative research culture that relies on competitive systems for valuing and accrediting scholarship, managed by powerful global commercial publishing consortia. A common reflex in a rapidly changing environment is reversion to traditional publishing models, and a few rich countries in the global North needlessly dominate the publication of research within this changing system.
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ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION, PUBLISHING, RESEARCH RESULTS, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, AFRICA