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Scholarly Publishing in Africa: A Case Study of African University Presses
Stirling, Scotland: University of Stirling, Department of English Studies, Doctoral Thesis (2003), 235 pp.
"This wide-ranging dissertation examines the policies and practices of six sub-Saharan Africa university presses in five African countries (in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe), to investigate how far the presses have adopted, and/or have adapted, their policies to suit the environmen
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INASP Directory 2002/2003
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), 350 pp.
"While not specifically focusing on Africa, this directory from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is a useful resource as it provides detailed information on almost 400 agencies, organizations, institutions, learned societies, professional associations
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Financial Considerations in Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries: The Case for the People’s Republic of China
Proceedings of the Second ICSU-UNESCO International Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science, held in association with CODATA, IFLA and ICSTI at UNESCO House, Paris 20–23 February 2001 (2001), 4 pp.
"In this paper, I will try to briefly summarize the present state of electronic publishing of science in the People’s Republic of China, and to explore how Chinese scientific publishers seem to be more successful in resolving the very same issues that confront their Western counterparts." (Introdu
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Now and in the Next Millenium, 1990s-3000 CE: Assessing Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Needs and Industry
Kampala: RA-Global Communications;JARP, 2nd and expanded ed. (2001), 250 pp.
"A collection of papers on various aspects of scholarly writing and publishing in Africa, mostly by African academics based in the diaspora." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2264)
Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing
Trenton, New Jers.: Africa World Press (2001), 171 pp.
"Five essays that seek to examine the challenges that women face in African studies scholarly publishing, and which aims to offer insights “into the shifting, intellectual, institutional, and ideological contexts and contests in African studies, as practiced in Africa and the North, by men and wom
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The Politics of Publishing in South Africa
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London; Scotsville: Holger Ehling Publishing;University of Natal Press (2000), 300 pp.
"This is a major study on publishing in South Africa, providing an in-depth analysis of the book industry, reviewing its social and historical context, and examining its role as a strategic industry in South Africa's future development. With contributions by some of the country's leading book profes
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Academic Book Production and Distribution in Africa: Support from Nordic Countries. Report from a Conference at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, 10-11 April 1997
Fantoft (NO): Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (1997), 112 pp.
"This is a report about, and the papers presented at, a conference jointly sponsored by the Norwegian Library Association, the Norwegian Non-fiction Writers, and the Chr. Michelsen Institute, which focussed on the role and support from Nordic countries to academic book production and distribution in
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International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
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London; Chicago: Fritzroy Dearborn Publishers (1995), xxvi, 736 pp.
"The first part [...] deals with [...] topics as copyright protection, desktop advances, the role of the editor, multinational publishers, scholarly publishing, best-sellers, and more. Major essays explore the nature and impact of the new technologies, changing patterns of readership, scientific pub
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Publishing and Development in the Third World
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London et al.: Hans Zell Publishers (1992), x, 441 pp.
"This benchmark volume stems from the papers commissioned for a major international seminar on Publishing in the Third World, held at Bellagio, Italy, in February 1991. It presents the first full scale discussion of publishing in Asia and Africa, and features perspectives from 25 prominent publisher
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Guide de publication scientifique
Dakar: Association des Rédacteurs et Editeurs Scientifiques d'Afrique Francophone (1991), 92 pp.
"Vise à aider les auteurs à se familiariser avec l'usage courant et les règles régissant la rédaction et l'édition d'ouvrages et de revues scientifiques. Explique les problèmes qui existent dans le secteur de l'édition scientifique et universitaire en Afrique francophone, dont l'un des plus
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The Book Today in Africa
Paris: UNESCO (1981), 210 pp.
"Sam Kotei’s book was one of the first major in-depth studies on the state of the book and publishing in Africa, in which the author looked back on a decade of special efforts to alleviate the “acute shortage of books” identified at the UNESCO meeting on books in Accra in 1968. The author note
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Perspectives on Publishing
Lexington, Mass.; Toronto: Lexington Books (1976), 283 pp.
Scholarly Publishing in Asia: Proceedings of the Conference of University Presses in Asia and the Pacific Area
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press (1973), 172 pp.
"[...] the (two) types of (existing) university presses, the medieval (i.e., Cambridge and Oxford models) and the modern (i.e., the American university press model) are being supplemented in certain countries by a third type, a new concept of university press," says Minowa. These proceedings - in tw
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