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    Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
    Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
    Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
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    Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa

    By Henry Trotter and Catherine Kell

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAfrican Minds
    Release dateJun 12, 2014
    ISBN9781620677551
    Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
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    Henry Trotter

    Henry Trotter is the author of Sugar Girls & Seamen: A Journey into the World of Dockside Prostitution in South Africa. Hailing from California, he has lived in Africa for 20 years and written extensively on African history, culture and education. He is based in Cape Town with his wife and daughter.

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