"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, and sustained commitment to building partnerships, collaborations and networks amongst African stakeholders, with linkages between these and their overseas counterparts, are two pivotal and necessary conditions to move Africa away from the global knowledge periphery. In her conclusions she states “bibliographies, whether in print, or online, are also tools to allow access to information. It is the pro-active, systemic, organized and strategic use of these tools that will determine the future of Africa’s moving closer to the centre of the global knowledge system. To be accessible in the information age, African journals must ensure they are available, visible and usable on the internet, most particularly through striving towards open access of African-published materials, such that Africans themselves can read context-specific, relevant work from their own continent. Role-players in the continent’s system of knowledge generation and dissemination hold the ultimate responsibility and moral burden to build on existing capacity through cooperation and collaboration. It is only by addressing the complex and multiple requirements at all levels that optimal use of opportunities will be attained and the African continent will be brought to prominence in the global knowledge system." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2566)