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Jay, Mary. "Co-publishing with Africa North–South–North." Logos 31, no. 2 (2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03102003.
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The decolonization of African studies extends beyond content to ethical partnerships between the North and the African continent. One key component of realizing partnership is through publishing. African studies research published by Northern publishers is not often even minimally available in Africa; and this is despite scholars on the continent often being partners or facilitators in research undertaken by Northern scholars. Northern publishers have perceived no commercial gain, given small African markets, lack of purchasing power, and lack of distribution systems. Conversely, African publishers have efficient distribution into the North through African Books Collective, owned and governed by them. But in suitable rare cases the African publisher can broker co-publications with Northern publishers who want the originating rights. In the light of these issues, African Books Collective launched an initiative to seek to break the deadlock. In partnership with the International African Institute, and with the active support of the African Studies Associations of the UK and the US, work is proceeding with publishers in the North and the South to broker co-publishing or co-editions to address this historic marginalization of Africa.
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Zell, Hans M. "Publishing in Africa." Logos 30, no. 3 (2020): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03003004.
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This two-part article is a sequel to a two-part paper published in Logos in 2008–2009. It provides a round-up of the current situation of the book industry in Africa today (primarily that in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa), together with a brief review of the activities of the various organizations that have supported African publishing over the years. Part 1 examines the persistent failure of African governments to support their book industries and public libraries in a tangible and positive fashion. It reviews the current status of book development councils in Africa, the unsatisfactory progress in establishing national book policies, the challenges of generating book industry data, and the opportunities presented to African publishers by the new digital environment. An Appendix provides a list of conferences, meetings, and seminars on publishing and book development held in Africa between 1968 and 2019. Part 2 of this article will appear in Logos, 30 (4).
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Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A., Kwabena Osei Kuffour Adjei, Christopher M. Owusu-Ansah, Radhamany Sooryamoorthy, and Mulubrhan Balehegn. "Africa’s challenges in the OA movement: risks and possibilities." Online Information Review 43, no. 4 (2019): 496–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2018-0152.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the status of the open access (OA) movement on the African continent, and if there is any financial or moral exploitation by dominant “foreign” world powers. OA provided the African intellectual community with a tool to prove its academic prowess and an opportunity to display cultural and intellectual independence. OA publishing is prone to abuse, and some in Africa have sought to exploit the OA boom to profit from non-academic activity rather than use this tool to glorify Africa’s image and diversity on the global intellectual stage. These issues are explored in detail in the paper. Design/methodology/approach The authors broadly assessed literature that is related to the growth and challenges associated with OA, including the rise of OA mega journals, in Africa. Findings African OA journals and publishers have to compete with established non-African OA entities. Some are considered “predatory”, but this Jeffrey Beall-based classification may be erroneous. Publishing values that African OA publishers and journals aspire to should not equal those published by non-African publishing entities. Africa should seek solutions to the challenges on that continent via Africa-based OA platforms. The budding African OA movement is applauded, but it must be held as accountable as any other OA journal or publisher. Originality/value African scholars need to reassess the “published in Africa” OA image.
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Bgoya, Walter, and Mary Jay. "Publishing in Africa from Independence to the Present Day." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112079.
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Indigenous publishing is integral to national identity and development: cultural, social, and economic. Such publishing reflects a people’s history and experience, belief systems, and their concomitant expressions through language, writing, and art. In turn, a people’s interaction with other cultures is informed by their published work. Publishing preserves, enhances, and develops a society’s culture and its interaction with others. In Africa, indigenous publishers continue to seek autonomy to pursue these aims: free from the constraints of the colonial past, the strictures of economic structural adjustment policies, the continuing dominance of multinational publishers (particularly in textbooks), regressive language policies, and lack of recognition by African governments of the economic and cultural importance of publishing. African publishers seek to work collectively, to harness the digital age, and to take their place in the international marketplace on equal terms, Africa’s own voice.
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Zell, Hans M. "Publishing in Africa." Logos 30, no. 4 (2020): 16–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03004002.
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This is the second instalment of a two-part article. Part 1 of this article appeared in Logos, 30 (3). Part 2 sets out a number of suggestions to strengthen the book industries in Africa, and the way forward, especially on capacity- and skills-building; training for book industry personnel; strengthening book professional associations, South–South linkages, and knowledge-sharing; encouraging international collaboration; the need for ongoing research and documentation; African books in the global marketplace; and the important but still neglected area of publishing in African indigenous languages. An Appendix provides a summary of the International Publishers Association (IPA) and Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) meetings on the African book industry, held in Nairobi in June 2019, together with links to a number of articles, reports, and press statements about the meetings.
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Foligno, Silvia. "Publishing in South Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112081.
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South Africa is an emerging market for publishing; it has a number of small and medium-sized local publishers but is dominated by publishing groups and multinationals that import international trends. Along with textbooks, imported trade books are the heart of South African publishing. The major obstacles the industry faces are linked to the poor distribution network as well as the lack of access to financial resources for local publishers, and a readership characterized by the plurality of official languages and an educational gap left over from the social inequalities of the apartheid era. Digital publishing, although not yet thriving, appears to be a promising opportunity to deal with both production costs and distribution and may provide a pathway towards the democratization of reading. A number of commercial platforms and non-profit initiatives are already in place in South Africa to support the development of the publishing market.
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Ofori-Mensah, Akoss. "The State of Publishing in West Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112082.
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The conditions of publishing in Nigeria and Ghana are examined in the general context of African publishing in recent decades. In both countries, school textbooks dominate the economics of publishing, attracting profit-hungry multinationals and marginalising home-grown trade publishing. Problems such as the lack of bookselling infrastructure, the underdevelopment of reading habits, and the economic necessity for African authors to secure a readership outside Africa have prompted a number of initiatives to advance the fortunes of African publishers seeking to publish African authored-books serving the needs of African readers. An effective pan-African book fair remains an important need if African publishing is to prosper.
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Kamau, Kiarie. "The State of Publishing in East Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112080.
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The main aim of this paper is to examine the state of publishing in East Africa. It also attempts to review the situation in Malawi and Zambia, where the author has had practical experience in publishing and marketing. The paper focuses on the growth of the publishing industry in the East African region and how this growth has impacted on access to textbooks and trade publications. It demonstrates that there has been significant growth in the industry, especially in Kenya and Uganda. However, this growth has largely been in the area of publishing of textbooks. Funding for the rollout of curricula in the East African countries has been a blessing to publishers because the funding includes allocations for textbook purchases for both primary and secondary schools. However, this kind of publishing has sounded something of a death knell for the publication of general books such as novels and biographies. The paper also demonstrates that indigenous book-publishing firms have gained a stronger foothold in East Africa in the last ten years and edged out the multinationals. It concludes by indicating that unless the publishing model changes, general publishing will continue to be relegated to the back-burner. At the same time, publishers are challenged to embrace digital publishing, since that is where the future of publishing lies.
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Richardson, Paul. "The Special Collection on Publishing in Africa at Oxford Brookes University." African Research & Documentation 76 (1998): 31–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00013017.
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In retrospect there was a certain inevitability that the Oxford Centre for Publishing Studies and Oxford Brookes University Library should establish a special collection on publishing in Africa, the first of its kind in Britain and perhaps anywhere in the northern hemisphere. There was the pre-existence in Oxford of powerful African publishing connections, represented on the one hand by two of the great houses which had helped to shape and develop and profit from publishing for and in Africa: Oxford University Press and Heinemann, and on the other by the parallel and equally important presence of specialist publishing operations and individuals with a focussed interest in publishing in the region: Bellagio and ABC, Hans Zell and Code Europe, James Currey Publishers and INASET.
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Cox, Justin, and Stephanie Kitchen. "African Books Collective: African Published Books in the North." African Research & Documentation 136 (2019): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00022056.
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This is a presentation about the African Books Collective that for some 30 years has distributed African published academic, literary and children's books around the world. The aim of the paper is to provide some insights into how books published in Africa are making their way to libraries with collections on Africa, and to discuss current and future trends; it being understood that ‘decolonising library collections’, the theme of this conference, would by rights involve acquiring and maintaining materials from outside the global North.Upon its creation in 1990, ABC represented a large number of university presses on the continent and independent publishers, some of which are large firms still trading today. Today few university presses are trading or publishing new books. This work was largely picked-up by private independent publishers and research institutes such as CODESRIA, OSSREA, the Institute of Southern African Studies and others.
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Svensson, Ragni. "Afrikansk skönlitteratur på svensk bokmarknad 1961–1981." Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 45, no. 2-3 (2015): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v45i2-3.8977.
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African Fiction on the Swedish Market 1961–1981: Bo Cavefors Publishing Ltd. and the ”Afrika berättar” (”Africa Speaks”) Series
 This article examines the selection, marketing and reception of contemporary African fiction on the Swedish book market of the 1960s and 70s, through the case of a book series called ”Afrika berättar”, launched by Bo Cavefors Publishing, Ltd. Bo Cavefors was the Swedish publisher of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ngu˜gı˜ wa Thiong’o and José Luandino Vieira. The article discusses the way in which these literary works were received from the perspective of current African politics. In addition, it considers the essential role of the publisher’s networks, such as freelance editors and translators in launching the series.
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Ferguson, Gus, and Alison Lowry. "The state of publishing in South Africa: two publishers speak out." Scrutiny2 4, no. 1 (1999): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.1999.10877349.
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Merrett, Christopher. "State versus documentation: access to anti-apartheid viewpoints from within South Africa." African Research & Documentation 50 (1989): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00010177.
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The purpose of this article is to highlight the significance of publication of antiapartheid periodicals within South Africa; to describe some of the difficulties under which researchers, writers and publishers operate; to attempt a categorization of this type of material; and to explain why the documentalist and indexer plays an important role in the study and understanding of present, and future, South African society. Excluded from this survey are literary and creative publications which could also be classified as anti-apartheid.There exists in South Africa a long and honourable tradition of antiapartheid periodical publishing. The response from those who hold the reins of power has been a vigorous campaign of censorship which, in the context of South Africa's political economy, may be seen as a logical necessity.
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Merrett, Christopher. "State versus documentation: access to anti-apartheid viewpoints from within South Africa." African Research & Documentation 50 (1989): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00010177.
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The purpose of this article is to highlight the significance of publication of antiapartheid periodicals within South Africa; to describe some of the difficulties under which researchers, writers and publishers operate; to attempt a categorization of this type of material; and to explain why the documentalist and indexer plays an important role in the study and understanding of present, and future, South African society. Excluded from this survey are literary and creative publications which could also be classified as anti-apartheid.There exists in South Africa a long and honourable tradition of antiapartheid periodical publishing. The response from those who hold the reins of power has been a vigorous campaign of censorship which, in the context of South Africa's political economy, may be seen as a logical necessity.
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Shercliff, Emma. "Publishing in Nigeria: Context, challenges, and change." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112083.
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This paper examines the state of the publishing landscape in West Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. It explores the major issues facing publishers today and provides a brief overview of the market, including some historical background. Issues facing publishers across the region are discussed, and challenges and opportunities for the future outlined. The article draws on existing literature as well as in-depth interviews carried out with leading fi gures in the industry in Nigeria in 2015.
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Nwagwu, Williams, and Salmon Makhubela. "Status and Performance of Open Access Journals in Africa." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 35, no. 1 (2017): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1262.
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This article reports on an examination of the uptake and status of open access journals (OAJs) in Africa based on the listing of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The article addresses the questions of the pattern of distribution of OAJs in Africa and examines the distribution of the oldest closed access journals that have migrated to the open access (OA) platform; the distribution of the publishers; and the licensing regime and publication languages. We first downloaded all the content of the DOAJ into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and then into Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, after editing. For data on publishers, the list of publishers was pasted into the MS Excel spreadsheet and physically sorted. As at November 2014, the total volume of OAJs globally registered in the DOAJ was 10 152, including those born closed which have now migrated to the OA platform. Globally, Europe produced the largest number of journals, followed by Asia, North America, South America and Africa. South America produced the highest number of journals per country. Egypt had the highest number of journals through the activities of one organisation, Hindawi. A journal of African origin is the oldest closed access journal in the DOAJ database; while corporations dominate OAJ publishing. Generally, OA uptake in Africa is considerably low. We suggest that the DOAJ should be proactive in sensitising publishers and other stakeholders in Africa about their services and the benefits, and how to include their journals in the database.
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Raju, Reggie, Jill Claassen, Jeremiah Pietersen, and Danielle Abrahamse. "An authentic flip subscription model for Africa: library as publisher service." Library Management 41, no. 6/7 (2020): 369–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-03-2020-0054.
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PurposeThis paper investigates the fit for purpose of the flip model proposed by Max Planck Society and Plan S for the African environment. This flipped model is examined against the backdrop of African imperatives, which is much broader than just flipping a journal pricing model from subscription to open access. This paper also seeks a viable alternative model that supports the growth of African scholarship and the dissemination thereof.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a descriptive research methodology, which allows for an in-depth analysis of a phenomenon. By using this method, this paper describes a flip model proposed by global north entities, which do not augur well for the growth of the OA movement in Africa.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that the global north centric flipped model exacerbates the inequality in the publishing landscape by further marginalizing the research voices from the global south. Africa is in dire need of an alternative that denorthernizes the publishing landscape, promote equity and equality, and is more inclusive of the research voices from Africa. South African academic libraries have demonstrated their willingness to experiment with and roll-out library publishing services. This proof of concept has been extended into a continental platform for the publication and dissemination of African scholarship.Originality/valueThis paper will be of interest to those who are grappling with viable alternatives to the current flip models, which include, inter alia, university leadership. This paper will also be of interest to global north libraries who are embarking on library publishing without the social justice obligation but are committed to the OA movement.
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Badisang, Bobana. "Factors Influencing Indigenous Publishing in Africa." African Research & Documentation 66 (1994): 6–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00016629.
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Citing Ayi Kwei Armah, Kotei has this to say about the plight of indigenous publishing in Africa: “if you [the writer] set out to print anything on your own, the printing costs will stagger you. If you manage to print, the distribution difficulties will blow your mind. If you give your stuff to a local publisher, you will sympathize so much with his problems so that you may not write again…So all our work… appears first to an audience which either regards us like some glass-enclosed specimen…or like an exotic weed to be sampled and made a conversation piece…or else we become some international organization's pet”.This article assesses the development of the indigenous publishing industry in Sub-Saharan Africa - the economics of publishing in relation to production, marketing and distribution of locally published materials, indigenization, current trends in publishing and the book trade in general, and the roles played by the different bodies concerned.
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Moller, Jana. "Comparing electronic short books from the USA and the UK to South Africa." Electronic Library 32, no. 4 (2014): 508–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-01-2013-0014.
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the electronic short books phenomenon from the USA and the UK which has spilled over to South Africa. By looking at the benefits these short books have for readers and authors, and the possible reasons for their success, the aim is to determine whether or not these books can be as successful a venture in South Africa as it has been elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach – Information about electronic short books, or e-singles, is gathered from various sources, including press releases and sales results. Information is gathered to determine the receptiveness to electronic short books of the South African trade book reading market, the way South African publishers are presenting e-singles to the market and what the future for e-singles may be. Findings – The findings of this paper make it clear that e-singles have found a gap in the market, providing various benefits to authors and readers, which may have contributed to their success. In South Africa, the success of e-singles faces unique obstacles, like a weaker reading culture and a poor awareness of e-books. Publishers need to make a bigger effort to become visible in the eyes of their readers and need to think about better distribution strategies. Research limitations/implications – With comparisons, accuracy is dependent on information provided by organizations (on their Web sites). Originality/value – This paper offers information about a new publishing trend – only a few months in South Africa. It offers a look into the state of the trade book industry in South Africa, how e-singles may function in it and what publishers of e-singles may do to ensure more success. It predicts the future of e-singles in South Africa based on its unique situation, pointing out what obstacles there may be to their uptake.
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Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. "1994 Noma Award Acceptance Speech." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 23, no. 1 (1995): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700008933.
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Your Excellency, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Cabinet ministers, ambassadors and high commissioners, publishers, representatives of Kodansha Ltd., distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It fills me with great pleasure to be here today to receive the 1994 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
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Zell, Hans M. "The fifth edition of African Books in Print: new features, and old problems." African Research & Documentation 82 (2000): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00021233.
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The new fifth edition of African Books in Print/Livres Africains Disponibles, (ABIP) has been in the making for some time. Initially plagued by persistent software problems with the database, publication of the new edition was further delayed because of many late responses by publishers verifying and updating records on file for their titles. Moreover, data gathering from Africa remains an uphill task, not made easier by serious communication problems and frequently unreliable postal services. However, after a rather prolonged hatching period, the new edition will now be published in May 2000. Happily, by virtue of the fact that the title database is constantly kept up-to-date through new listings in the quarterly African Book Publishing Record (ABPR), the delay in publication has not affected currency, and the fifth edition of ABIP will provide details of African books that are currently in print as at the end of 1999.
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Schutte, Deon Du Preez. "Indexing in the educational publishing industry: moving the index to the next level." Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 40, Issue 1 40, no. 1 (2022): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2022.4.
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Do educational publishers still consider indexes to be important tools for information access in their products? Based on a survey of managing editors at multinational publishing houses in South Africa, they do care about indexes but only to a limited extent. The editors hire qualified indexers, but they offer relatively low pay rates and do not include indexes in books at primary-school level. While these findings could be dismaying, Deon Schutte instead finds it heartening that publishers are committed to including indexes in traditional media. He suggests that the next step could be for indexers to offer publishers new ways to create visually appealing, user-friendly indexes for readers of all ages and for books in all formats.
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Fleming, Tyler, and Toyin Falola. "Africa's Media Empire: Drum's Expansion to Nigeria." History in Africa 32 (2005): 133–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2005.0008.
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Publishing in Africa remains so difficult an enterprise that many publishers have collapsed, their dreams disappearing with them. This is especially true of the print media, particularly newspapers and magazines. During the past century, many magazines and newspapers failed to establish a loyal readership, keep costs down, insure wide circulation, or turn a huge profit. Consequently, not many African magazines can be viewed as “successful.” Drum magazine, however, remains an exception.In 1951 Drum, a magazine written for and by Africans, was established in South Africa. Drum enjoyed a great deal of success and is now widely recognized as having been a driving force in black South African culture and life throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the South African historiography Drum has been thoroughly researched. The magazine's impact on South African journalism, literature, gender configurations, African resistance, and urban South African culture has been documented and often lauded by various scholars. Many former members of the South African edition's payroll, both editors and staff alike, have gone on to become successes in literature, journalism, and photography. Often such staff members credit Drum for directly shaping their careers and directly state this in their writings. Consequently, Drum is often associated only with South Africa. While Drum greatly influenced South Africa, its satel¬lite projects throughout Africa were no less important. These satellite projects cemented Drum's reputation as the leading magazine newspaper in Africa and each edition became fixtures in west African and east African societies.
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Metcalfe, Amy Scott, Samuel Esseh, and John Willinsky. "International Development and Research Capacities: Increasing Access to African Scholarly Publishing." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 39, no. 3 (2010): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v39i3.478.
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This paper examines the evolving relationship between Canada and the African academic research community through the promotion of a concept known as Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) and with an eye to its implications for increasing the circulation of research through such means as open access (OA) publishing models. We analyze the programmatic discourse of Canada’s International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) African research initiatives, and report on an IDRC research and development project assessing the means of increasing access to African scholarly journals through the use of open source software platforms and open access publishing and archiving models. Consistent with IDRC’s multi-year effort to contribute directly to university-based research capacities by investing in ICT infrastructure in Africa, our survey of African editors, librarians, and faculty from five African nations reveals a similar interest in developing those capacities, despite numerous challenges, through the use of online publishing systems and OA publishing models, which hold some promise of increasing access to research published in Africa.
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Tatarinova, Larуsa. "Publishing in the UK." Вісник Книжкової палати, no. 3 (March 17, 2021): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.36273/2076-9555.2021.3(296).7-14.
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The UK publishing industry is one of the most powerful in the world. Our intelligence has shown that the global status of the industry is determined by the leadership of the English language in the world stage, heritage, historical ties and the force of copyright law.
 The article proves that the United Kingdom is a leader in many areas of publishing, such as the publication in English of works from other cultures: African, Caribbean and Indian literature. British publishers are also competitive in areas such as textbooks, various reference books, English Language Guides (ELTs) and textbooks for international schools.
 An analysis of the Global Publishers' Rating in 2017 showed how British publishing companies are constantly succeeding on the world stage. For example, according to the Global Publishers' Rating in 2017, five British companies earned a quarter of the combined revenue of the world's 50 most powerful firms. (For comparison: eight US publishers together earned 27% and together — more than half.) The printing industry in the UK is large, developed and thriving. The United Kingdom is the fifth largest producer of printed matter in the world, employing around 116 000 people and accounting for £ 5,8 billion in GDP.
 The performance of the UK book publishing industry is the printing of new titles and new publications. According to this indicator of publishing productivity, the British book industry is a world leader. In 2014, the American book publishing industry estimated that 335 000 new titles and publications were published, followed by China with 448 000, the United Kingdom with 220 000, well ahead of Japan, Germany, and Russia, as well as France, Italy, and Spain. If we use a different method of counting and find out the number of new names printed per million population, it turns out that the UK produces the most new names in the world — more than 2900 per million population against 1000 to 1500 for other large developed markets.
 An analysis of the book industry in the United Kingdom shows that it is constantly evolving. Modern digital technologies allow publishing companies to reorganize and improve technological processes. New features include: integration with supply chain partners, online distribution, dynamic pricing, on-demand printing, e-book publishing.
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Beck, Roger B. "Editing and Publishing the John Philip Papers: Practical Considerations." History in Africa 18 (1991): 39–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172052.
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There is a long tradition in South Africa of publishing private and public documents, beginning with Donald Moodie's The Record, which first appeared in 1838. At the turn of the century the seemingly indefatigable Geroge McCall Theal published a number of collections that have become standard references for South African historians: Belangrijke Historische Dokumenten verzameld in de Kaap Kolonie en Elders (3 vols.); Basutoland Records (3 vols.); Records of South Eastern Africa (9 vols.); and the massive thirty-six-volume edition of the Records of the Cape Colony. The Van Riebeeck Society has just published the seventieth volume in its series of edited diaries, journals, and letters.3 And every student of contemporary South Africa has referred to the four-volume collection of African political documents edited by Gwendolen Carter and Thomas Karis.In this essay I want to discuss the evolution of my own work with the papers of the South African missionary John Philip. I do not intend to delve into the intricacies of transcribing these papers but rather to discuss them in the broader context of documentary editing and the publication of multi-volume editions. The recently organized Association for the Publication of African Historical Sources has rightly identified the need for a coordinated effort to make African historical documents and source materials more readily available to the scholarly community. If the first of these sources to be published is an indication of what may be expected from this series, then all Africanists should join together to give the association their full support.5 But documentary editing is not a simple or inexpensive undertaking, as I hope to show in this paper.
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Ifeduba, Emmanuel Chukwunonye. "Digital publishing readiness in Nigeria’s print book market." Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 69, no. 6/7 (2020): 427–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gkmc-04-2019-0047.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of production of digital book titles and deployment of e-promotion and how they correlate with school, library, bookshop, consumer and author readiness, with a view to enhancing publishers’ understanding of and participation in e-publishing, which is now crucial for growth and sustainability Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was completed by 109 publishing firms, 79 publishing websites were observed in search of digital titles and e-promotion, and data were analysed using the SPSS to compute frequencies, percentages and correlates of digital publishing innovation adoption Findings It is found that 2014 digital titles (mainly textbooks and scholarly content) were issued in four formats by 33 out of 109 firms. Authors and consumers were perceived to be more digital-ready than libraries, schools and bookshops. There was a significant relationship between the issuance of digital titles and author readiness (r = 0. 372), consumer readiness (r = 0.338) and library readiness (r = 0.255). There was also a significant relationship between the adoption of e-promotion and consumer readiness (r = 0.381) and author readiness (r = 0.265). Originality/value Book publishing innovation research, especially in Africa, focuses mainly on the adoption of mobile devices, infrastructural challenges and reading habits, paying inadequate attention to the correlates of digital publishing adoption. The results of this study, therefore, shed light on the correlates of digital publishing adoption and should help interested publishers and scholars to understand that author, consumer and library readiness are important determinants of digital publishing adoption, especially in developing economies.
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Zell, Hans M. "Reference Sources." African Book Publishing Record 44, no. 4 (2018): 363–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abpr-2018-0012.
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Abstract No less than three international meetings on publishing in Africa have taken place recently, which have been followed with detailed action plawns. Among many other recommendations, calls for action to find solutions to perennial problems, as well as discussions focusing on sectorial innovation and revitalization of the African book industries, pwarticipants in all three meetings were strongly urged to start collecting and disseminating book industry data. It is true that reliable figures of book publishing output for the continent of Africa do not exist at the present time, with the exception of a very small number of countries, notably South Africa and Morocco. Meantime the state of African national bibliographies, which can form the groundwork of book industry data, presents a picture of neglect for the most part, with many national bibliographies seriously in arrears, currently dormant, or having ceased publication altogether. Only a small number are accessible in digital formats. Book publishing data and book production statistics are important elements in measuring the growth and vitality of indigenous publishing in any part of the world. In the absence of such data for most of the African continent, there is a need for research, analysis, documentation, and systematic gathering of current, reliable data and statistics on the whole book sector in Africa. However, there are huge challenges and complexities in the goal of collecting data for book industry surveys, which must not be underestimated. Many questions will need to be asked: for example, how is data going to be collected and analysed; what will be the parameters; and what are going to be the sources and the methods? Who should be responsible for undertaking the research and the compilation of such book industry data; and, crucially, who is going to fund the research and the data gathering process on a systematic and ongoing basis? Collecting book industry data is closely interrelated with the publication of national bibliographies and, in addition to examining the issues and challenges relating to the creation of book industry statistics, this paper also provides an analysis of the current state of national bibliographies in Africa, as well as linked matters such as legal deposit legislation, and compliance of legal deposit. Most national libraries and bibliographic agencies in Africa continue to operate under severe constraints, and have been chronically underfunded by their governments for the past four decades or more. An analysis of the current status of African national bibliographies sadly presents a dismal picture. It is unlikely that reliable data for the African book industries can be collected and published without the input and full cooperation of national libraries or bibliographic agencies. There is equally an urgent need for much more active collaboration and interaction between the agencies producing national bibliographies with publishers and book trade associations in each African country. Any attempts to revive the fortunes of African national libraries, and the resumption of publication of high quality and timely national bibliographies, will amount to a formidable task. This paper offers a range of suggestions and recommendations how the situation might be addressed and improved, but also points out that regular compilation of a national bibliography, and effective maintenance of legal deposit, necessitates adequate staff in terms of both numbers and expertise, which is not the case at this time.
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Cole, Geoff. "The Special Collection on Publishing in Africa at Oxford Brookes University, Part 2." African Research & Documentation 79 (1999): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00015417.
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In a previous issue of ARD my colleague Paul Richardson provided an introduction to the establishment of The Paul Hamlyn Foundation/Code Europe Special Collection on Publishing in Africa in the Library at Oxford Brookes University. Paul writes from the perspective of an academic and a publisher and brings these particular insights to the collection. I write as a librarian and would like to discuss the establishment of the collection from that perspective.Several events during the last year have given me an insight into the potential of a collection like this.At the London International Book Fair in March 1998 the Southern African Book Development Education Trust organised a series of seminars under the title of ‘Publishing for Children in Africa’. Speaker after speaker spoke about the potential for development and the urgent need for support of the publishing industry in that continent.
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de Haas, Ricarda. "African diasporic literatures in the virtual space: Narration, interaction and performance in Teju Cole’s Twitter story ‘Hafiz’." Journal of Global Diaspora 3, no. 1 (2022): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/gdm_00023_1.
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African writers from the diaspora as much as from the continent have emphatically embraced the potential of new media technologies. A vast and tightly woven network of literary enthusiasts connects writers, scholars, publishers, journalists and readers, who often interact independently from western publishing houses. Digital diasporic literatures are thus created within multiple cyberplaces that are interlinked. My article focuses on ‘Hafiz’ (2014), a collaborative piece published on Twitter by Teju Cole. Thirty-five voices jointly tell a story, thereby conjuring the illusion of an event that simultaneously takes place in metropolises of Nigeria, South Africa, Europe, the United States and India. With regard to the performative collaboration displayed in ‘Hafiz’, my article discusses how Achille Mbembe’s conceptualization of Afropolitanism ([2010] 2021), the relational approach to digital diasporas by Candidatu and Koen, and concepts of digital literatures can be fruitful for the analysis of new media based literatures.
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Macháček, Vít, and Martin Srholec. "Predatory publishing in Scopus: Evidence on cross-country differences." Quantitative Science Studies 3, no. 3 (2022): 859–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00213.
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Abstract Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation database Scopus and examines cross-country differences in the propensity of scholars to publish in such journals. Using the names of “potential, possible, or probable” predatory journals and publishers on Beall’s lists, we derived the ISSNs of 3,293 journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus with them. A total of 324 of journals that appear in both Beall’s lists and Scopus, with 164,000 articles published during 2015–2017 were identified. Analysis of data for 172 countries in four fields of research indicates that there is a remarkable heterogeneity. In the most affected countries, including Kazakhstan and Indonesia, around 17% of articles were published in the suspected predatory journals, while some other countries have no articles in this category whatsoever. Countries with large research sectors at the medium level of economic development, especially in Asia and North Africa, tend to be most susceptible to predatory publishing. Policy makers and stakeholders in these and other developing countries need to pay more attention to the quality of research evaluation.
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Baobeid, Anwaar, Tara Faghani-Hamadani, Sara Sauer, et al. "Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa." BMJ Global Health 7, no. 7 (2022): e008821. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008821.
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IntroductionWomen researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women’s careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, particularly for women in low-income and middle-income countries. We measured publishing by sub-Saharan African (SSA) women in prestigious authorship positions (first or last author, or single author) during the time frame 2014–2016. We also examined policies and practices at journals publishing high rates of women scientists from sub-Saharan Africa, to identify potential structural enablers affecting these women in publishing.MethodsThe study used Namsor V.2, an application programming interface, to conduct a secondary analysis of a bibliometric database. We also analysed policies and practices of ten journals with the highest number of SSA women publishing in first authorship positions.ResultsBased on regional analyses, the greatest magnitude of authorship inequity is in papers from sub-Saharan Africa, where men comprised 61% of first authors, 65% of last authors and 66% of single authors. Women from South Africa and Nigeria had greater success in publishing than those from other SSA countries, though women represented at least 20% of last authors in 25 SSA countries. The journals that published the most SSA women as prominent authors are journals based in SSA. Journals with overwhelmingly male leadership are also among those publishing the highest number of SSA women.ConclusionWomen scholars in SSA face substantial gender inequities in publishing in prestigious authorship positions in academic journals, though there is a cadre of women research leaders across the region. Journals in SSA are important for local women scholars and the inequities SSA women researchers face are not necessarily attributable to gender discrepancy in journals’ editorial leadership.
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Suriano, Maria. "Dreams and constraints of an African publisher: Walter Bgoya, Tanzania Publishing House and Mkuki na Nyota, 1972–2020." Africa 91, no. 4 (2021): 575–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972021000486.
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AbstractThis article explores the history of two Tanzanian publishing houses and the remarkable life and career of Walter Bgoya, former general manager of Tanzania Publishing House (1972–90) and managing director of Mkuki na Nyota, which he founded in 1991. Using the lens of microhistory, and drawing from extensive interviews with Bgoya and conversations with two colleagues and three authors, the article first chronicles his early life and ideological formation and what influenced his career in book publishing. It then examines the key achievements and challenges faced by these publishing houses in different times of austerity (e.g. Structural Adjustment Programmes, foreign investment with conditionalities, declining state support and high printing costs), along with the complex ways in which Bgoya has navigated the shifting, often uncertain, political, financial and legislative landscapes, while retaining his intellectual freedom and core Pan-Africanist beliefs. Constraints have not hampered Bgoya's pursuit of ambitious projects or his commitment to publishing relevant and progressive books, either written by African authors or on African matters. I suggest that reducing the scale and identifying how specific conditions of austerity have affected the choices made by a publisher over time can yield insights into the ways in which cultural institutions have contributed to knowledge production and dissemination in postcolonial Africa.
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Mosweunyane, Dama. "Panjandrums in African Universities: Inapt Scholars for African Development." English Language Teaching 4, no. 1 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18319/72.
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<p>This article is meant to advance the view that the university academics in Africa have not been able to make some meaningful developments of economic, political, social and environmental nature for the continent. The paper argues that this is because they have relied chiefly on exotic western concepts, which undermines efforts to develop the African continent. The paper castigates this dependence because some of the concepts that get imported into the continent are not apt for its conditions, since they were designed for foreign conditions. The unique development of Africa could have been realised if the universities in the continent could have been utilising indigenous concepts or making a thorough assessment and modifying the foreign ideologies and approaches before their utilisation. The teaching approaches that the continent used for passing knowledge from generation to generation are undermined, which results in the rejection of the skills, knowledge and attitudes that the continent cherished before the universities produced panjandrums that view Western concepts as superior to those that are indigenous.</p><p>The paper argues that the African scholars continue to employ methods of research, which have limited the inventiveness and creativeness of the universities in Africa. The reward systems for excellent performance in the universities in Africa are based on the standards set for Western Universities, which emphasise publications by non-African publishers. The use of non-African publishers has lessened the capacity of universities in Africa to develop and strengthen their publishing houses, which is necessary if they are to promulgate ideologies that are unique to the continent.</p><p>The paper attributes this limitation to the colonial experiences that the continent has and lack of indigenous ideologies to escape from the shackles of ideological manipulations. The continent still relies on consultancies that are undertaken by the scholars from the West, instead of those that are brewed locally by the Africans scholars.</p><p>The paper concludes by proposing that the African universities should promote ideological applications based on locally generated decisions with little to no foreign influence, than to continue relying on exotic concepts that have failed the African development agendas.</p>
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Miller, Samantha. "Minority-Language Publishing." Logos 33, no. 1 (2022): 23–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03104030.
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Abstract Afrikaans is regarded as a peripheral language in the global polysystem of language, as well as a minority language in terms of the proportion of South Africa’s people who speak this language. In order to expand the market for Afrikaans trade books and to position Afrikaans literature internationally, there needs to be more visibility and resourcing, translation rights need to be sold, and South African publishing to be positively rebranded. This article explores the challenges and opportunities of Afrikaans publishing, applies polysystems theory as a theoretical framework, undertakes a comprehensive literature review, and discusses findings from interviews with trade publishers and observations at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Smith, Kelvin. "African Publishing from the Outside." African Research & Documentation 100 (2006): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00019683.
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In his acceptance speech for the 1st ZIBF Award for Life-Long Contribution to the African Book Industry in Harare on 2nd August 2004, Henry Chakava made these comments, succinctly encapsulating a confident and optimistic view of a future direction for African publishing.African publishing has come of age, and the challenge facing us now is to democratize the book so as to make it available, accessible and affordable to all our people. These are the challenges I must now place before our new generation of publishers. You must build on the foundations we have established, take advantage of the liberalized marketplace, and harness the emerging technologies to put African publishing squarely on the world map. (Chakava 2004)
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Morris, Alan. "A McMaster retrospective: how publishing in a student journal shaped my career." NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology 22 (November 11, 2014): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.15173/nexus.v22i1.898.
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Alan G. Morris is Professor in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. A Canadian by birth and upbringing, Professor Morris is also a naturalised South African. He has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Ontario, and a PhD in Anatomy from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Professor Morris has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age and Historic populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa. In more recent years he has extended his skeletal biology knowledge to the field of forensic anthropology. Professor Morris’ book ‘Missing and Murdered’ was the winner of the WW Howells Prize for 2013 from the American Anthropological Association. He has an additional interest in South African history and has published on the history of race classification, the history of physical anthropology in South Africa and on the Canadian involvement in the Anglo-Boer War. Professor Morris was selected as a visiting Fulbright Scholar in 2012-2013 and spent 9 months at The Ohio State University where he worked with American scholars on the ‘Global History of Health’ project. He is a council member of the Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, an associate editor of the South African Journal of Science and an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
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Odia, Uchechukwuka Linus. "Impact of recycling sustainability on organizational performance." Linguistics and Culture Review 6 (December 12, 2021): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v6ns1.1977.
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This is empirical research focusing on the impact of recycling sustainability on Organizational performance in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of this study, a sample of 10 publishing houses in four major cities in Delta State was adopted, and these cities include Asaba, Warri, Sapele, and Oghara. Given that Nigeria is the regional publishing powerhouse in West Africa with newspaper publications selling in the whole region, likewise, textbook publishers in Nigeria dominate the regional market. The industry contributes about 10% of the GDP and is one of the fastest-growing in the manufacturing sector. Unfortunately, Nigeria does not produce most of the raw materials for publishing. All paper materials used in Nigeria are imported, and the costs are rising with the reliability of the sources dwindling. In addition, the publishing industry in Nigeria is faced with a high rate of waste and returns. The study focused on the impact of adopting recycling sustainability as a possible solution to the dwindling raw materials, increasing costs, and high rate of returns. It used a stratified random sampling approach and a descriptive research design.
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Limb, Peter. "‘Publish or Perish’ in African Studies: New Ways to Valorise Research." African Research & Documentation 129 (2016): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305862x00021816.
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AbstractNew modes of publishing African Studies accelerate research, creating digital repositories, but valuing the outcomes is complex, and contested. For tenure of both librarians and academics, refereed publications remain the Holy Grail. Fears of quality decline accompany a rise in self-publishing and inverse social media brevity. Valuing works requires reliable sources, but permanency concerns remain: online news in Africa can quickly disappear, as evident with Ebola reporting; and if you trust Google, in African languages some news never occurred! But at the same time, new modes of publishing and communication allow wider review, and the contesting of canon. Twenty years ago, Africanists hoped open access credentialing was just around the corner. This has not eventuated but a measure of recognition is conceded as society itself goes online. Blogs and open access journals will not clinch jobs, but they can let scholars leave an imprint. Graduate digital courses with blogs replacing essays and completed projects offered back to libraries show a trend to capacitise a new generation of teachers, valorising research. Librarian job descriptions insist on digital skills. Granting bodies privilege the digital. Publishers go online. African studies associations hold digital workshops. If output in core media maintains centrality in ranking and citation then there is now a merging of forms. New books appear, some to acclaim, using digital sources, new knowledge discovery techniques emerge. Across all these trends, there will remain a need to balance digital and print collected by libraries, and refereed writing with more spontaneous communication, but their boundary is likely to narrow.
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Enakrire, Rexwhite Tega. "Publishing Patterns of Health Informatics in Africa: A Bibliometric Analysis." Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management 18, no. 3 (2021): 356–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ejkm.18.3.2121.
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This study investigates the publishing patterns of health informatics (HIs) in Africa, with a view to analyse the bibliometric growth. The application of HIs has played an important role in the advancements in medical practice and scholars/academics’ teaching and learning at higher education institutions. The aim of analysing the volume of publications of HIs was to establish the research impact, visibility and output of academics, in order to promote scholarly communication and knowledge sharing, and contribute to existing knowledge in this field of study. Interpretive document analysis was applied to literature extracted from the Scopus database for the period between 1987 to 2018. The keywords entered for search engine optimisation were “Health Informatics” and “Africa”. The duration of the study - from when data was harvested, collated and analysis to when the data was presented in tables and then discussed - was three weeks. The results obtained revealed that there were 2332 papers published within this period. The publications were communicated through different avenues, including articles, conference papers, review and others. Publications on medicine was at the top of the list of subject areas recorded. The top journal, where papers in HIs were published, is Plos One. South Africa was among the top countries that published research on HIs. In relation to institution affiliation, University of Cape Town was identified as the higher education institution that produced the highest number of publications, with 128 publications. In terms of funding bodies that supported research, thus leading to publication of papers in HIs, it was found that the National Institute of Health, South African Medical Council, United States Agency for International Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Research Foundation played crucial roles.
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Goldstein-Sabbah, Sasha, and Jan Jansen. "Local Preservation, National Demolition, International Publication: the Ta'rikh Mandinka from Bijini ca. 1800(?)–2007." History in Africa 36 (2009): 447–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2010.0006.
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The Ta:rikh Mandinka from Bijini has been published in a classical format (as a monograph in Brill's African Sources for African History Series), but the publishing process of this book was rather extraordinary. This note on the publication serves as an instructive (and encouraging) account for all who work on the documentation and publication of African historical sources. Our “Bijini Experience” illustrates how literate and script-loving persons (academics and publishers alike) can tackle a source in which the oral and the written have always been blurred.
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Oksiutycz, Anna. "Editorial." Communicare Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa 41, no. 1 (2022): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v41i1.1401.
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With the current edition, change comes to Communicare as we strive to respond to the needs of our readers, contributors and the broad academic community. For many years Communicare has been publishing articles from beyond Southern Africa. The articles published in the journal are read worldwide, so it is only fitting that the title of the journal has changed from Communicare: Journal for Communications Sciences in Southern Africa to Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa. Since its inception in 1980, Communicare has been a subscription journal, but this year we are leaping into the future as the journal has become an open access journal. Open access publishing in recent decades has become a growing trend in publishing (Laakso 2011). Furthermore, globally, an increasing number of research funding agencies, especially those that rely on public funding, mandate publishing research findings under open access model (The Economist 2018).
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Bosah, Gabriel, Chuma Clement Okeji, and Ebikabowei Emmanuel Baro. "Perceptions, preferences of scholarly publishing in Open Access journals." Digital Library Perspectives 33, no. 4 (2017): 378–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dlp-03-2017-0011.
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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to know the various factors librarians consider while selecting Open Access (OA) journal for publication and to identify the challenges librarians face with OA journal publishing. Design/methodology/approachOnline questionnaire was designed to collect data from 402 academic librarians in 87 universities in Africa using SurveyMonkey software. FindingsThe study found that academic librarians are aware of the “green” and “gold” routes but not familiar with the “diamond” route. The study revealed that a large number of the academic librarians have published only one paper in OA journals, followed by those who have not published any paper in OA journals. The study also revealed that reputation of journal and impact factor of journal were seen as very important among the factors that inform them of choosing OA. The majority of the respondents agreed that author fees, and lack of stable internet connectivity are the major barriers to publishing in OA journals. Practical implicationsThe study recommends that academic libraries in institutions of higher learning in Africa should organize seminars periodically on the need for their librarians to research and publish in OA journals. Social implicationsIdentifying factors involved in author decisions to publish in OA journals will help illuminate issues that may encourage or discourage author support of OA publishing models. Further understanding of these issues can assist the efforts to improve author perceptions of and confidence in OA publications. Originality/valueIt is believed that this study of African librarians publishing in OA journals is the first study in the region.
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Bopape, Solomon. "THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 34, no. 1 (2016): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/703.
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The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.
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Ifeduba, Emmanuel C. "Building E-Publishing Capacity by E-Collaboration." International Journal of e-Collaboration 18, no. 1 (2022): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijec.295150.
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The invention of the World Wide Web made the Internet attractive for publishing, offering Africans an opportunity to publish for the global market. Notwithstanding, their e-publishing initiatives, emerging business models and competitive e-collaboration with global distribution giants are yet to be adequately interrogated from an empirical perspective. This study, therefore, describes the progression of e-publishing from the perspective of e-collaboration. In-depth interviews, website observation and survey methods were employed in data collection; and 97 purposively selected publishing firms filled out a questionnaire offline whereas online data were collected from 82 available publishing websites. Findings indicate that publishers are building e-publishing capacity by launching websites, e-book clubs and online bookshops, collaborating with global giants for distribution, thereby increasing output significantly. This study updates the history of e-publishing, providing hitherto unavailable information on the progression of digital publishing in Africa's largest economy.
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Mills, David, and Abigail Branford. "Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy." Africa 92, no. 5 (2022): 839–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972022000481.
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AbstractWhy are Nigeria’s universities launching a growing number of open access journals while simultaneously expecting their academic staff to publish ‘internationally’? And what impact do these expectations have on Nigerian journals? Drawing on interviews with editors and publishers, we describe the emergence of a hyperlocal ‘credibility economy’ within the Nigerian academy. The great majority of Nigerian scholarly journals are excluded from Scopus and Web of Science, the two main global citation indexes. Stigmatized by geography, Nigerian journals are ignored, rendered invisible, classed as poor quality or condemned as ‘predatory’. Historicizing these trends, we illustrate our argument with four case studies: two science and technology journals hosted by universities and two independent publishers, one with expertise in African studies, the other in information studies. In each case, we explore the motivations, commitments and strategies of editors and publishers. Their stories exemplify the impact of colonial histories, global discourses and bibliometric infrastructures on African research publishing cultures. The histories, logics and fragilities of this regional research ecosystem reveal how Africa’s scholars and publishers are getting by – but only just – amid the metricized judgements of the global research economy.
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Kotlerman, Ber. "SOUTH AFRICAN WRITINGS OF MORRIS HOFFMAN: BETWEEN YIDDISH AND HEBREW." Journal for Semitics 23, no. 2 (2017): 569–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3506.
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Morris Hoffman (1885-1940), who was born in a Latvian township and emigrated to South Africa in 1906, was a brilliant example of the Eastern European Jewish maskil writing with equal fluency in both Yiddish and Hebrew. He published poetry and prose in South African Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals. His long Yiddish poem under the title Afrikaner epopeyen (African epics) was considered to be the best Yiddish poetry written in South Africa. In 1939, a selection of his Yiddish stories under the title Unter afrikaner zun (Under the African sun) was prepared for publishing in De Aar, Cape Province (which is now in the Northern Cape Province), and published after his death in 1951 in Johannesburg. The Hebrew version of the stories was published in Israel in 1949 under the title Taḥat shmey afrikah (Under the skies of Africa). The article deals with certain differences between the versions using the example of one of the bilingual stories. The comparison between the versions illuminates Hoffman’s reflections on the relations between Jews and Afrikaners with a rather new perspective which underlines their religious background
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Saugman, Per, Michael Foyle, and Ian Montagnes. "Book Reviews of "A Century of Science Publishing & A Collection of Essays", "The Politics of Publishing In South Africa", and "Scholarly Publishing: Books, Journals, Publishers, and Libraries In The Twentieth Century"." Logos 13, no. 1 (2002): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2959/logo.2002.13.1.49.
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Malapela, Thembani. "Access to Scholarly Research Information in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review." Libri 67, no. 1 (2017): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/libri-2016-0060.
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AbstractSince the year 2000, the world has witnessed an increased call for improved access to scholarly information. The cost of scholarly content is a major barrier in accessing needed research information. In order to fully contribute to the global knowledge economy, African scholars need to access both global information resources and locally published works. Few studies have focused on the African knowledge production vis-à-vis access to scholarly research information in Africa. This paper examines access to scholarly research information in sub-Saharan Africa. The review focuses on available published works on access to scientific literature in Africa and seeks to understand Africa’s scholarly publishing scene. In the process, challenges and opportunities regarding access to scholarly research information are explored. Three approaches in addressing these issues emerge in literature – namely (i) open access, (ii) donor-funded schemes and (iii) negotiated access schemes for scholarly content. This review shows that these approaches have leveraged information access to the African researchers who now have almost the same levels of access to scientific literature as their peers in the developed world. African governments, institutions, researchers and librarians still need to exploit the potential of open access. There remain, however, infrastructural issues that need to be addressed to ensure that the African scholar enjoys access to current scientific information.
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Severin, Anna, Michaela Strinzel, Matthias Egger, Marc Domingo, and Tiago Barros. "Characteristics of scholars who review for predatory and legitimate journals: linkage study of Cabells Scholarly Analytics and Publons data." BMJ Open 11, no. 7 (2021): e050270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050270.
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ObjectivesTo describe and compare the characteristics of scholars who reviewed for predatory or legitimate journals in terms of their sociodemographic characteristics and reviewing and publishing behaviour.DesignLinkage of random samples of predatory journals and legitimate journals of the Cabells Scholarly Analytics’ journal lists with the Publons database, employing the Jaro-Winkler string metric. Descriptive analysis of sociodemographic characteristics and reviewing and publishing behaviour of scholars for whom reviews were found in the Publons database.SettingPeer review of journal articles.ParticipantsReviewers who submitted peer review reports to Publons.MeasurementsNumbers of reviews for predatory journals and legitimate journals per reviewer. Academic age of reviewers, the total number of reviews, number of publications and number of reviews and publications per year.ResultsAnalyses included 183 743 unique reviews submitted to Publons by 19 598 reviewers. Six thousand and seventy-seven reviews were for 1160 predatory journals (3.31% of all reviews) and 177 666 reviews for 6403 legitimate journals (96.69%). Most scholars never submitted reviews for predatory journals (90.0% of all scholars); few scholars (7.6%) reviewed occasionally or rarely (1.9%) for predatory journals. Very few scholars submitted reviews predominantly or exclusively for predatory journals (0.26% and 0.35%, respectively). The latter groups of scholars were of younger academic age and had fewer publications and reviews than the first groups. Regions with the highest shares of predatory reviews were sub-Saharan Africa (21.8% reviews for predatory journals), Middle East and North Africa (13.9%) and South Asia (7.0%), followed by North America (2.1%), Latin America and the Caribbean (2.1%), Europe and Central Asia (1.9%) and East Asia and the Pacific (1.5%).ConclusionTo tackle predatory journals, universities, funders and publishers need to consider the entire research workflow and educate reviewers on concepts of quality and legitimacy in scholarly publishing.