Seeking Impact and Visibility Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa / Henry Trotter, Catherine Kell, Michelle Willmers, Eve Gray & Thomas King

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...

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Online Access: Access E-Book
Access Note:Open Access.
Main Authors: Trotter, Henry (auithor.), King, Thomas (Research Assistant) (Author), Gray, Eve Horwitz (Author), Willmers, Michelle (Author), Kell, Catherine (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme, University of Cape Town, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • Programme overview
  • Project components and methodology
  • The Southern African university context
  • Scholarly communication policy landscape in Southern Africa
  • Research and communication practices
  • The SCAP implementation initiative
  • Challenges, contradictions and opportunities
  • Key findings
  • Recommendations
  • References.