In this Book
- Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
- 2014
- Book
- Published by: African Minds Publishers

summary
African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars� work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.
Table of Contents
- Tables and figures
- p. vii
- Abbreviations
- pp. viii-x
- Project group
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Executive summary
- pp. 1-8
- 1. Programme overview
- pp. 9-18
- 5. Research and communication practices
- pp. 89-140
- 6. The SCAP implementation initiative
- pp. 141-176
- 8. Key findings
- pp. 221-232
- 9. Recommendations
- pp. 233-236
- References
- pp. 237-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9781620677551
Related ISBN(s)
9781920677510
MARC Record
OCLC
887684165
Pages
262
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-17
Language
English
Open Access
Yes