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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on
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Moving Africa Away from the Global Knowledge Periphery: A Case Study of AJOL
Africa Bibliography, issue 2008 (2009), pp. vii-xxiv
"Using African Journals Online (AJOL) as a case study – recently expanded to offer full text online and, with over 350 partner titles, now the world’s largest online collection of African journals – the author argues that increasing accessibility of African research outputs through open access
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Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives. The South Asian Scenario
Bimal Kanti Sen; Jocelyne Josiah (eds.)
New Delhi: UNESCO (2008), 137 pp.
"This publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported th international conferences and workshops including the 4 International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2001, Bangalore); the International Conferences on Digital Libraries (ICDL2004 & ICDL2006,
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Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source
London: Pluto Press (2008), xiii, 257 pp.
Open Access: Chancen und Herausforderungen. Ein Handbuch
Bonn: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2007), 136 pp.
"Die Transformation des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens von der Gutenberg-Galaxie in den Cyberspace verlangt allen Beteiligten eine Neudefinition ihrer Rolle in dem System ab. Bei den anstehenden Veränderungen ist eine Fülle technischer, rechtlicher und wirtschaftlicher Gegebenheiten zu ber
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Open Access als alternatives Publikationsmodell der Wissenschaft
Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Buchwissenschaft (2007), 93 pp.
"Zunächst erfolgt ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand und die Quellenlage zum Thema Open Access, anschließend eine Begriffsdefinition. Daraufhin werden die Hintergründe der Open-Access-Bewegung aufgezeigt: Was sind die Ursachen und Ziele? Wie hat sich die Bewegung entwickelt? Außerdem werde
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Getting Started in Electronic Journal Publishing
Key Guidance
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), 5th ed. (2006), 25 pp.
"The 5th edition of a popular guide that provides an overview of the potentials and pitfalls of electronic journal publishing. While not specifically written for an African audience, it is an excellent resource for African journal editors and publishers who are contemplating switching to an electron
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African Journals Online (AJOL): A Second Internal Evaluation, 2003-2005
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2006), 40 pp.
"A second evaluation of the African Journals Online (AJOL) project http://www.ajol.info/, which examines the development and status of the project since the last evaluation in 2002 to the end of 2005, and when it was handed over to African management, NISC South Africa Ltd. It aims to provide partic
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The Open Access (open Journal Systems) Paradigm and the Production of Scholarly Journals in Developing Countries
Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University, Master Thesis (2006), viii, 76 pp.
Open Access Publishing: A Developing Country View
First Monday, vol. 11, nr. 6 (2006)
"This paper presents the experience with open access (OA) publishing by researchers in an academic research institution (The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Campus) in a developing country — Trinidad and Tobago. It describes the two parallel but complimentary paths for authors to
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Open Access Publishing and Scholary Societies: A Guide
New York: Open Society Institute (2005), 34 pp.
"This guide has a limited scope. It is meant to help scholarly societies – and small publishers – assess the options available to them for the future of their journal publishing programmes. Though the option of keeping the status quo of subscription-based journals is discussed, the focus is on c
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Wissenschaftliches elektronisches Publizieren: Chancen zur Förderung des wissenschaftsgestützten Publikationsmodells in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2005), 83 pp.
"Neue Entwicklungen im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) bieten die Möglichkeit, den freien Zugang (open access) zu Informationen physisch zu erleichtern und neue Systeme und Netzwerke wissenschaftlicher und technologischer Innovationen zu etablieren. Insbesondere im Be
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Open Access for Africa: Challenges, Recommendations and Examples
New York: United Nations ICT Task Force (2005), 175 pp.
E-Publishing in Developing Economies
Canadian Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 3 (2004), pp. 329-341
"Electronic publishing has been heralded as a worldwide solution to information dissemination. This article considers the problems experienced by traditional journals published in the developing world, with particular reference to those published in sub-Saharan Africa. The opportunities offered by e
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Digital Publishing and Open Access for Social Science Research Dissemination: A Case Study
Cape Town: Eve Gray & Associates (2004), 25 pp.
"Charts the planning and implementation of a digital publishing programme over a three-year period at the Human Sciences Research Council, a large South African social science research body. The case study is contextualised in the need to overcome the digital divide to give African scholars a real v
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African Journals Online (AJOL): An Internal Evaluation, 2000-2002
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2003), 15 pp.
"An internal evaluation of the African Journals Online (AJOL) project following the first three years of the full programme, aimed at discovering the overall impact of AJOL and how the service might be improved. The main objectives of the evaluation were to find out (i) whether the results of resear
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Gaining Independence: A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture
Washington, DC: Scholary Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) (2002), 60 pp.
