TY  - BOOK
A1  - Trotter, Henry
A1  - Kell, Catherine
A1  - Willmers, Michelle
A1  - Gray, Eve
A1  - King, Thomas
T1  - Seeking impact and visibility : scholarly communication in Southern Africa
N2  - African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars' work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59555
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-595550
SN  - 1-62067-755-5
SN  - 978-1-62067-755-1
PB  - African Minds
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
ER  -