| Título: | International Development and Research Capacities: Increasing Access to African Scholarly Publishing |
| Autores: |
Metcalfe, Amy Scott; University of British Columbia Esseh, Samuel; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and University of British Columbia Willinsky, John; Stanford University and University of British Columbia |
| Fecha: | 2009-12-30 |
| Publicador: | Canadian Journal of Higher Education |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: | research-article |
| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | 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 fi ve 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. Cet article analyse l’évolution de la relation entre le Canada et la communauté de recherche africaine en avançant le concept de la Technologie de l’Information et de la Communication pour le Développement (TICpD), ainsi que de son potentiel pour augmenter la circulation de la recherche grâce à des modèles de publication comme l’accès libre. Nous analysons le discours programmatique des initiatives africaines émanant du Centre de Recherche pour le Développement International canadien (CRDI), et nous faisons le bilan d’un projet de recherche et de développement portant sur l’évaluation de moyens visant à faisant croître l’accès aux revues savantes africaines, en particulier grâce à des plates-formes de logiciels libres et grâce à des modèles de publication et d’archivage en accès libre. De concert avec l’effort pluriannuel du CRDI de contribuer directement aux capacités de recherches universitaires par son investissement dans les infrastructures TIC africaines, notre sondage de rédacteurs en chef, de bibliothécaires et de chercheurs de cinq pays d’Afrique, révèle ces derniers s’intéressent à développer le genre d’outils, en dépit de nombreux obstacles, offrant la possibilité d’améliorer l’accès aux recherches publiées en Afrique, et en particulier les outils de publication en ligne ainsi que les modèles de publication en accès libre. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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