Scholarly publishing in Africa : opportunities & impediments / edited by Solani Ngobeni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ngobeni, Solani.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholarly publishing--South Africa.

Scholarly publishing.

Publishers and publishing--South Africa.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Scholarly publishing in Africa : opportunities and impediments

Place of Publication:

Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book interrogates one of the most important aspects of Africa's publishing industry, namely, scholarly publishing, which while it deserves more attention, generally receives little. The African publishing industry continues to be dominated by education publishing, although trade publishing is beginning to thrive, especially in the bigger industries such as South Africa and Egypt. Sadly, the same cannot be said about scholarly publishing which to all intents and purposes continues to remain the flotsam and jetsam of the African publishing landscape. It is therefore hoped that the incisive and perceptive observations contained herein will go a long way in influencing policymakers and other relevant stakeholders in developing an enabling environment for scholarly publishing to thrive.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Glossary

Introduction

Part One: The State of Research Publishing in Africa

Chapter 1. Policy research and scholarly publication in Cameroon

Chapter 2. Towards improving research inputs and outputs in South Africa 15 The initiatives of the Academy of Science of South Africa

Chapter 3. The university press and scholarly publishing in South Africa

Chapter 4. The role of students in the scholarly publishing process

Part Two: The State of Scholarly Publishing in Africa

Chapter 5. Publishing in Africa since 1973

Chapter 6. Scholarly Publishing in South Africa

Chapter 7. The crisis of scholarly publishing in Africa

Chapter 8. The challenges of being an editor for the newly accredited Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

Part Three. The Challenges of Book Distribution

Chapter 9. The Challenges of Book Distribution

Chapter 10. The Challenges of Book Distribution in Africa

Chapter 11. The Distribution of Scholarly Journals

Part Four. The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Scholarly Publishing

Chapter 12. E-books for the academic publishing and distance-education environment

Chapter 13. ICT and scholarly publication in developing countries

Part Five. Alternative Publishing Models

Chapter 14. African-published scholarly journals

Chapter 15. Open access as an alternative mode of scholarly publishing and enhancement of knowledge production in sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 16. The status of English in scholarly publishing

Chapter 17. Challenges to scholarly African-language publishing

Chapter 18. Alternative publications models

Chapter 19. Knowledge production by non-governmental organisations in southern Africa.

Chapter 20. A model for an African scholarly network press

Part Six. The Politics of Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing

Chapter 21. The impact of the South African rating system on an academic journal

Chapter 22. The politics of peer review

Chapter 23. The 'politics' and practice of peer review in South Africa

Chapter 24. The case of publication and funding in South African academic circles

Part Seven: Scholarly Publishing and Intellectual Property Development in Africa

Chapter 25. Intellectual property development and open access to information 339 Contextual challenges and impediments from an African perspective

Chapter 26. The impact of the South African Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act on scholarly publishing

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7983-0229-1

OCLC:

647885849