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Access to Africa’s
knowledge
Scholarly Communication in Africa
University of Mauritius
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What do we, in African countries, seek to gain from our investment in
research?
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The aim is surely African knowledge,
for Africa, from Africa, widely accessible...
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Globally, scholarly communications is
at a crossroads
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...as the internet offers greater
connectivity, lower cost...
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http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
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We face two very different poles of
opportunity...
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Enhanced global competitiveness and
prestige....
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...or ways of addressing
development challenges...
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We constantly ask questions about the link between
research and development...
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‘How could the application of knowledge end poverty and hunger in Africa? How could higher education empower women and promote gender equity? How can knowledge be considered in the African context to address child mortality and improve maternal health?’
Nahas Angula, Namibian Prime Minister, UNESCO 29th Conference on Higher Education, 2009
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Yet we are still caught up with old
paradigms...
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...stuck in a free rider mentality...
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...in which higher education does not see publication as its responsibility...
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...measuring success on the
basis of counts of journal articles
in the ISI indexes.
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...a system run by a single commercial company...
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The result is tunnel vision...
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...which ignores all but a small
segment of the publishing
ecosystem..
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... marginalising African research
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.. ignoring other communications
activity...
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.. and offering little support and
recognition to the communications that
emerge from development-focused
research...
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There is a penalty...
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Science Research - 2001
http://www.worldmapper.org 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan).
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World poverty
http://www.worldmapper.org 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan).
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How can we address this?
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Leveraging technology in a
networked world ....
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... aligning communications policy with institutional and
national strategies...
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...revaluing ‘grey publishing’...
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... leveraging open access...
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...by publishing in open access
journals...
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...using collaborative
publishing platforms...
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...using open repositories and
portals...
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...rethinking business models...
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...gaining wider impact and
reach...
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How can the University of
Mauritius harness this potential to
deliver its strategic goals?
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Eve GrayHonorary Research Associate
Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Townhttp://www.gray-area.co.za
http://www.http://www.sca2kafrica.org/
http://www.cet.uct.ac.za