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Using Open Access Publishing for the Effective Dissemination of African Research

PKP PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE PROJECT. Using Open Access Publishing for the Effective Dissemination of African Research. Ensuring a Journal’s Economic Sustainability , While Increasing Access to Knowledge Samuel Smith Esseh The Public Knowledge Project.

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Using Open Access Publishing for the Effective Dissemination of African Research

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  1. PKP PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Using Open Access Publishingfor theEffectiveDisseminationof African Research Ensuring a Journal’s Economic Sustainability, While Increasing Access to Knowledge Samuel Smith Esseh The Public Knowledge Project

  2. BackgroundWhy Publish scientific research? To make available to the general public the grand results of Scientific work and Scientific discovery; and to urge the claims of Science to a more general recognition in Education and daily life.

  3. BackgroundWhy Publish scientific research? To aid researchers themselves, by giving early information of all advances made in any branch of natural knowledge throughout the world… …and by affording them an opportunity of discussing the various scientific questions that arise from time to time

  4. … The fundamental mission of the research community which is to ensure the widest possible dissemination and unrestricted access to research has not been possible in Africa.

  5. Current State of Scholarly Publishing From African scholarly publication index in PASCAL database from 1991-1997 and in the ISI database from 1981-2000… The capacity to research and produce scholarship in Africa is concentrated in a few countries The Rest of Africa 1/4 South Africa Nigeria, Egypt Morocco, Kenya Tunisia and Algeria 3/4 African scientific production

  6. Current State of Scholarly Publishing Circulation numbers for African scholarly Journals (1997 • True scholarly journals usually having a circulation of less than 500, usually in the order of 100-200 • Only one journal had more than 400 external subscribers • The rest of the journals had a maximum circulation of 50 or even less

  7. Current State of Scholarly Publishing World Share in Publication/R&D expenditure Source: UNESCO (2004). A decade of investment in research and development (R&D): 1990-2000, UIS Bullentin on Science and Technology Statistics, Issue No.4 April

  8. Current State of Scholarly Publishing Papers in SCI by region, 1981-2000

  9. Current State of Scholarly Publishing Total Expenditure of libraries on books & journal per Student (1993 - 1994) Institution Exp. University of Ghana $0.50 University of Cape Coast $2.66 University of Dar es Salaam $9.00 University of Addis Ababa $0.50 Eduardo Mondlane $0 Mozambique $0 Source: Rosenberg, D., (1998) The Financing of University Libraries in Africa. Information Development, vol. 14 (2) p. 73

  10. Have we been effective? NO! Why? … The fundamental mission of the research community which is to ensure the widest possible dissemination and unrestricted access to research has not been possible in Africa.

  11. Conclusion These observations point to the fact that African scholarly works are poorly distributed, barely marketed and hardly accessed The African scientists do not have access to all the scientific literature they need to enable science to progress as efficiently and effectively as possible

  12. Open Access Publishing Open Access Publishing Ensures a Journal’sEconomic Sustainability, While Increasing Access to Knowledge Research is Freely available Research is Publicly available Research is widely circulated Research is Permanently available

  13. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals

  14. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals

  15. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals

  16. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals

  17. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals Notes1.Assessing the Impact of Open Access: Preliminary Findings from Oxford University Press (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/oa_report.pdf)

  18. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals

  19. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals Note1. The Effect of Open Access and Downloads ('Hits') on Citation Impact: a Bibliography of Studies (http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html).

  20. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals

  21. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals * OA with journal subscriptions (evidence to date shows no affect on subscription sales).

  22. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals What it all adds up to… Online ManagementTraditional Economic Models Enhanced Quality Improved Economies }

  23. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals What it all adds up to… Increased Access Enhanced Quality + Improved Economies + Online PublishingOnline ManagementTraditional Economic Models }

  24. The Economic & Qlity Sustainability of Journals What it all adds up to… Increased Access + Enhanced Quality + + Improved Economies + } Open AccessOnline PublishingOnline ManagementTraditional Economic Models

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