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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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CODESRIA Guide for Authors
Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) (2005), 44 pp.
"A comprehensive guide for authors – especially students and budding scholars – designed to facilitate communication and understanding between authors and editors at CODESRIA, covering aspects of presentation and organization of manuscripts, notes and reference systems, tables and illustrations,
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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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Designing and Implementing the First Environmental and Science Journalism Course for an Uzbekistan Journalism School
Applied Environmental Education & Communication, volume 3, issue 3 (2004), pp. 153-161
"Uzbekistan faces severe ecological problems including the rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, desertification, residues of biochemical weapons, and environmentally related respiratory disease. Even so, the country’s print and broadcast media do little in-depth or analytical reporting on environmental iss
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Science and Technology Communication for Development
Plos Biology, volume 2, issue 1 (2004), pp. 28-29
"[...] it is important that the practice of science communication reflects the fact that it takes place in social context. In other words, it is not just a question of conveying information, but also of engaging the potential users of that information. The need is to encourage dialogue and eventuall
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UNESCO's Basic Texts on the Information Society
Paris: UNESCO (2003), 112 pp.
Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal
New York: Open Society Institute, 2nd ed. (2003), 66 pp.
Introduction to Digital Libraries
London: Facet Publishing (2003), xv, 359 pp.
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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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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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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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)
