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El libro de divulgación científica en Chile 2015-2020
Santiago de Chile: Ministerio de las Cultura, las Artes y el Patrimonio (2023), 397 pp.
Who counts? Ghanaian academic publishing and global science
Cape Town: African Minds (2023), 227 pp.
25 apuntes de la edición universitaria
Lima: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (2023), 191 pp.
Publikationsberatung an Universitäten: Ein Praxisleitfaden zum Aufbau publikationsunterstützender Services
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2020), 396 pp.
"Dieser Band ist als Praxisleitfaden für Personen und Institutionen konzipiert, die eine Stelle zur Publikationsberatung auf- und ausbauen möchten. Während der erste Teil des Bandes verschiedene Aspekte des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens thematisiert, die im Rahmen der Publikationsberatung relev
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L'édition en sciences humaines et sociales
Key Guides
Deep Insights
Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (2020), 400 pp.
"En moins de vingt ans, l'édition en sciences humaines et sociales a été considérablement bouleversée. Tout a été réinventé : le marché du livre s'est transformé, le cadre légal a été radicalement modifié, la publication et la lecture en ligne ont connu un formidable essor, l'écritur
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The African University Press
Cape Town: African Minds (2017), 62 pp.
"A holistic way of approaching the question of how African university presses can reposition themselves in support of the broader shift of some African universities towards a greater focus on research, is to consider shifts in the dominant institutional logic in the academic publishing industry. Bas
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The Chicago Manual of Style
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 17th ed. (2017), xvi, 1144 pp.
"In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely
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Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Opportunities & Impediments
Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (2010), xxv, 378 pp.
"The proceedings of a conference held at the Africa Institute of South Africa in 2009, this is a major new collection of essays on the state of scholarly publishing in Africa, with a strong emphasis on the situation in South Africa. The conference was convened, and the papers published, in an attemp
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Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value
African Journal of Information and Communication, issue 10 (2010), pp. 4-19
"This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organisations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication. What emerges is a readiness to use the concepts and language of
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Opening Scholarship Project. Case Study 4: UCT Press
Cape Town: Centre of Educational Technology, University of Cape Town; Shuttleworth Foundation (2009), 20 pp.
"The University of Cape Town (UCT) Press was established in 1994 and is one of four university presses currently operating in South Africa. The modern-day university press presents an interesting mix of challenges and conflicting agendas, and the OpeningScholarship project chose UCT Press as a subje
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Políticas editoriales de publicaciones académicas en Chile
Santiago de Chile: ONG Derechos Digitales (2009), 51 pp.
Studies and reviews briefly some of the key editorial decisions that involve the distribution of academic publications policy in Chile, including its access and use of the general public, academic and scientific community in particular.
Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography
Deep Insights
Lochcarron: Hans Zell Publishing, 3rd ed. (2008), xlix, 712 pp.
An Exploration of the State of Self-Publishing in the Academic Publishing Sector of South Africa
Pretoria: University of South Africa, Master Thesis (2007), 215 pp.
"The academic publishing sector in South Africa is facing many changes and challenges in the post-1994 democracy, with most of the changes brought about by the Higher Education Act No. 101 of 1997. A recent challenge, or threat, to commercial publishers is the phenomenon, and proliferation, of self-
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African Scholarly Publishing Essays
Oxford; Uppsala: African Books Collective; International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP); Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006), 273 pp.
"This volume grew out of a seminar on scholarly publishing held in Arusha, Tanzania in 2002. It was originally announced for publication as The African Scholarly Writers and Publishers Handbook, as a sequel to the much acclaimed African Writers’ Handbook published by African Books Collective in 19
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