AJIC Issue 10, 2009/2010
THEMATIC ISSUE: SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND OPENING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
ISSUE EDITORS
Lucienne Abrahams, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Johannesburg
Eve Gray, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
REVIEWERS
Special thanks for refereeing on this issue to: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto at Scarborough (Canada); Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal (Canada); Colin Steele, Australian National University (Australia); and Ewan Sutherland (Belgium). The research reported in this issue of AJIC was made possible through the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), Shuttleworth Foundation (South Africa), and the Department for International Development (DFID, UK).
INTRODUCTION
Editors' Comment - Lucienne Abrahams and Eve Gray
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value - Eve Gray
Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities - Lucienne Abrahams, Mark Burke and Johann Mouton
Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge - Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya and Achal Prabhala
'Dazzling Technologies': Addressing the Digital Divide in the Southern African Universities - Piyushi Kotecha
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW
Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA - Francis Nyamnjoh
CASE NOTES
Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact - Iryna Kuchma and Kondwani Wella
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW
Review of IPR Act and Regulations: Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, No 51 of 2008, Republic of South Africa - Prialoshni Chetty
BOOK REVIEWS COMPILATION
Open Access Books on Open Scholarly Communications - Andrew Rens, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Kevin Williams and Eve Gray
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