Gray, Eve2010-03-102010-03-102010http://hdl.handle.net/10625/42112While 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.Text1 digital file (p. 4-19)enACCESS TO KNOWLEDGESCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONPUBLISHINGRESEARCH RESULTSECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTAFRICAJournal Article