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050 4 _aZ286.S37.S36 2010
100 1 _aNgobeni, Solani.
245 1 0 _aScholarly Publishing in Africa :
_bOpportunities et Impediments.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aPretoria :
_bAfrica Institute of South Africa,
_c2009.
264 4 _c©2010.
300 _a1 online resource (407 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aFront Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Part One: The State of Research Publishing in Africa -- Chapter 1. Policy research and scholarly publication in Cameroon -- Chapter 2. Towards improving research inputs and outputs in South Africa 15 The initiatives of the Academy of Science of South Africa -- Chapter 3. The university press and scholarly publishing in South Africa -- Chapter 4. The role of students in the scholarly publishing process -- Part Two: The State of Scholarly Publishing in Africa -- Chapter 5. Publishing in Africa since 1973 -- Chapter 6. Scholarly Publishing in South Africa -- Chapter 7. The crisis of scholarly publishing in Africa -- Chapter 8. The challenges of being an editor for the newly accredited Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery -- Part Three. The Challenges of Book Distribution -- Chapter 9. The Challenges of Book Distribution -- Chapter 10. The Challenges of Book Distribution in Africa -- Chapter 11. The Distribution of Scholarly Journals -- Part Four. The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Scholarly Publishing -- Chapter 12. E-books for the academic publishing and distance-education environment -- Chapter 13. ICT and scholarly publication in developing countries -- Part Five. Alternative Publishing Models -- Chapter 14. African-published scholarly journals -- Chapter 15. Open access as an alternative mode of scholarly publishing and enhancement of knowledge production in sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 16. The status of English in scholarly publishing -- Chapter 17. Challenges to scholarly African-language publishing -- Chapter 18. Alternative publications models -- Chapter 19. Knowledge production by non-governmental organisations in southern Africa.
505 8 _aChapter 20. A model for an African scholarly network press -- Part Six. The Politics of Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing -- Chapter 21. The impact of the South African rating system on an academic journal -- Chapter 22. The politics of peer review -- Chapter 23. The 'politics' and practice of peer review in South Africa -- Chapter 24. The case of publication and funding in South African academic circles -- Part Seven: Scholarly Publishing and Intellectual Property Development in Africa -- Chapter 25. Intellectual property development and open access to information 339 Contextual challenges and impediments from an African perspective -- Chapter 26. The impact of the South African Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act on scholarly publishing -- Index -- Back Cover.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aScholarly publishing--South Africa.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aNgobeni, Solani
_tScholarly Publishing in Africa
_dPretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa,c2009
_z9780798302272
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3001532
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