Seeking impact and visibility
Subtitle: scholarly communication in Southern Africa
By: Henry Trotter [and four others]
Contributors: University of Cape Town. Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme
Publisher: African Minds, for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme, University of Cape Town
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781920677510
Subjects: Communication in learning and scholarship; Technological innovations; Scholarly publishing; Open access publishing; Research; Publishing; Universities and colleges
Description: "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 scholar's 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." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246).