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Chapter 11
Open Access Implications for Sustainable Social, Political, and Economic Development
a system, through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future.
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Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tuesday Bwalya (The University of Zambia, Zambia) and Akakandelwa Akakandelwa (The University of Zambia, Zambia)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5018-2.ch011
Abstract
The concept of open access has opened up access to scholarly communication. Academia today can publish and have access to a cocktail of information resources without restrictions and without paying anything. This chapter seeks to explain open access to scholarly communication and its future in Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter begins by explaining the concept of open access, various forms of open access publishing, benefits of open access, and a brief history of open access to scholarly communication in Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter also highlights some notable open access initiatives that have been implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa in the quest to improve access to scientific research findings in order to accelerate economic development. Furthermore, the chapter catalogues some challenges being encountered in the promotion of open access in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lastly, the chapter predicts the future of open access to scholarly communication in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on the current happenings in this sector.
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Visibility and Accessibility of Indigenous Knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repositories at Universities in Africa
Consolidation, organisation, reviewing, interpretation, and preservation of information sources, and the publication and dissemination of scholarly output.
Published in Chapter: Visibility and Accessibility of Indigenous Knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repositories at Universities in Africa; From: Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries
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Open Access to Knowledge and Challenges in Digital Libraries
A component of a larger research lifecycle that pertains to the process of sharing, disseminating and publishing research findings of academics and researchers so that the generated academic contents are made available to the global academic communities or learned societies through journals, monographs, thesis and dissertations, research reports, conference proceedings and working papers.
Published in Chapter: Open Access to Knowledge and Challenges in Digital Libraries; From: Handbook of Research on Managing Intellectual Property in Digital Libraries
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Open Access to Knowledge and Challenges in Digital Libraries: Nigeria's Peculiarity
Involves the conceptualization, materialization, transformation, assessment (peer-review), dissemination and preservation of knowledge related to research and other scholarly activities.
Published in Chapter: Open Access to Knowledge and Challenges in Digital Libraries: Nigeria's Peculiarity; From: Handbook of Research on Managing Intellectual Property in Digital Libraries
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A Classification Scheme for Innovative Types in Scholarly Communication
Authoring and publication of scholarly material in order to communicate knowledge and to foster research within the scientific community.
Published in Chapter: A Classification Scheme for Innovative Types in Scholarly Communication; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact
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Institutional Repository
A term used to describe the process of sharing of research output among researchers and publishing their research findings to make them available to the wider academic community and beyond. For example Theses, Dissertations, Research Articles and Conference Papers, etc.
Published in Chapter: Institutional Repository; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Institutional Repositories in Africa: Issues and Challenges
The system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.
Published in Chapter: Institutional Repositories in Africa: Issues and Challenges; From: Research Data Access and Management in Modern Libraries
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Challenges for Establishment of Institutional Repositories: The Case of Zimbabwe's University Libraries
A system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community and preserved for future use” (Baporika, 2017, p. 75).
Published in Chapter: Challenges for Establishment of Institutional Repositories: The Case of Zimbabwe's University Libraries; From: Open Access Implications for Sustainable Social, Political, and Economic Development
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Teaching Digital Competence and Scholarly Communication: Ten Years Moving Researchers to Digital Scholarship at Pablo de Olavide University
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Open Science and Its Impact on Libraries, Publishers, and Authors
The creation, transformation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research, and scholarly endeavours; the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community. The creation, transformation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge related to teaching, research, and scholarly endeavours; the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community.
Published in Chapter: Open Science and Its Impact on Libraries, Publishers, and Authors; From: Handbook of Research on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Library and Information Science
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Open Access: A Sine-Qua-Non for Effective Information Service in Open and Distance Learning and Attaining Sustainable Development Goals
A system through which scholarly work is created, reviewed and disseminated to the academic, research or scholarly community
Published in Chapter: Open Access: A Sine-Qua-Non for Effective Information Service in Open and Distance Learning and Attaining Sustainable Development Goals; From: Open Access Implications for Sustainable Social, Political, and Economic Development
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Blockchain and the Research Libraries: Expanding Interlibrary Loan and Protecting Privacy
The research process where research is conducted, evaluated, and preserved for the scholarly community.
Published in Chapter: Blockchain and the Research Libraries: Expanding Interlibrary Loan and Protecting Privacy; From: Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI
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