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"Understanding Open Access provides a scholarly author-oriented look at the ins and outs of open access publishing. The guide addresses common concerns about what “open access” means, how institutional and funder open access policies work, and why authors might consider making their works openly
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Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials: Strategies, Tips, and Tools to Manage Controversy, Convey Your Message, and Disseminate Results
Research Triangle Park, North Carol.: FHI 360; USAID; Microbicides Media and Communications Initiative (mmci) (2014), xv, 252 pp.
"This handbook is designed to serve the needs of anyone who conducts, plans, or implements clinical trials—especially trials that evaluate new drugs or interventions in a community setting. We want to make your job easier, whether you are a researcher, a study coordinator, or a communications prof
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Advances in African and Arab Science Journalism: Capacity Building and New Newsroom Structures Through Digital Peer-To-Peer Support
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 4-22
"Journalists who regularly cover science, health, environment and technology in Africa and the Arab world face a number of difficulties: Lack of elementary resources for journalistic research, and newsroom environments that are not always supportive of specialised reporting. Also a need for capacity
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Indicadores de acceso abierto y comunicaciones académicas en América Latina
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2014), 169 pp.
Open Content: A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences
Bonn; Berlin; Köln: German Commission for UNESCO (DUK); Wikimedia Deutschland; North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz) (2014), 78 pp.
"With this publication, we intend to provide interested individuals and organisations with practical guidelines for the use and application of open content licences: How do open content licences work? How do I choose the most suitable licence for my individual needs? Where can I find open content on
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Which World Bank Reports Are Widely Read?
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 32 pp.
"About 49 percent of the World Bank’s policy reports, which are published Economic and Sector Work or Technical Assistance reports, have the stated objective of informing the public debate or influencing the development community. This study uses information on downloads and citations to assess wh
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Disseminating the Research Findings
World Health Organization (WHO) (2014), 163 pp.
Print Vs Electronic, and the ‘digital Revolution’ in Africa
Lochcarron, Wester Ross: Hans Zell Publishing (2013), 30 pp.
"This article takes a critical look at the print vs digital debate in Africa, taking stock of the current position as it relates to electronic publishing and the use of electronic reading devices in (English-speaking) sub-Saharan Africa, and the rapidly changing publishing environment on the contine
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The Handbook of Journal Publishing
Key Guides
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2013), xii, 467 pp.
"The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishing, both online and in print. Journals are crucial to scholarly communication, but changes in recent years in the way journals are produced, financed, a
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How to communicate research for policy influence. Toolkit No 3: Engage with media
Buenos Aires: CIPPEC (2013), 6 pp.
Guide for Uncertainty Communication
The Hague: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2013), 26 pp.
"Dealing with uncertainty has been an important and distinct topic for PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (formerly MNP) and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), in terms of analysis and communication. Acting responsibly with regard to this issue is
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"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and
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Creating Killer Facts and Graphics
Oxfam (2012), 4 pp.
"‘Killer facts’ are those punchy, memorable, headline-grabbing statistics that make reports special. They cut through the technicalities to fire people up about changing the world. They are picked up and repeated endlessly by the media and politicians. They are known as ‘killer’ facts becaus
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Salvaging the Records of Salvage Ethnography: The Story of the Digital Himalaya Project
Book 2.0, volume 1, issue 1 (2012), pp. 39-46
"The Digital Himalaya Project is a collection, storage and dissemination portal for scholarly content and research findings about the Himalayan region. The project website connects a worldwide user community to a vast corpus of digital resources from or about India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan pla
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Passing on the Hot Potato: Lessons from a Policy Brief Experiment
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 68-75
"Research has potential to improve the lives of the world’s vulnerable people – if it is appropriately referred to in decision-making processes. While there is a significant industry of activity each year to communicate research findings, little systematic research has tested or compared the eff
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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 76 pp.
This Research does not Influence Policy
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 25 -29
"This article concerns a study whose questions, methods and analytical conclusions were the work of a group of Karimojong in Uganda. Its report included text and photographs, plain language, direct voices and faces, and little theorising. When it was disseminated it appealed to local people and to a
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Advances in Knowledge Brokering in the Agricultural Sector: Towards Innovation System Facilitation
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 53-59
"The process of knowledge brokering in the agricultural sector, where it is generally called agricultural extension, has been studied since the 1950s. While agricultural extension initially employed research push models, it gradually moved towards research pull and collaborative research models. The
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Radio, ICT Convergence and Knowledge Brokerage: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 76-83
"This article examines the changing role of radio for development in sub-Saharan Africa as ‘new’ Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) increasingly enter the information landscape. Grounded in the empirical findings of a research programme – Radio, Convergence and Development in Af
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Cartographers, Conciliators and Catalysts: Understanding the Communicative Roles of Researchers
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 45-52
"A review of case studies from a global, ten-year research project coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies suggests that previous efforts to understand the value of research for promoting social change has underappreciated the contribution of researchers as social actors. Researchers inh
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