Katie Wilson ; Anthony Kiuna ; Richard Lamptey ; Susan Veldsman ; Lucy Montgomery et al. - Open access and research dissemination in Africa

elpub:6288 - ELectronic PUBlishing, April 18, 2020, Charting The Futures(s) of Digital Publishing - https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.20
Open access and research dissemination in Africa

Authors: Katie Wilson ORCID-iD; Anthony Kiuna ; Richard Lamptey ; Susan Veldsman ; Lucy Montgomery ; Cameron Neylon ORCID-iD; Richard Hosking ; Karl Huang ; Alkim Ozaygen ORCID-iD

    This paper discusses research undertaken by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) andparticipants during and following an Open Knowledge international workshop held in Mauritiusin September 2019. The workshop brought together key experts to explore the role of openknowledge in the creation of equitable and inclusive global knowledge landscapes. This paperexplores the role of open access and institutional repositories in knowledge sharing and thedissemination of research output from higher education and research institutions within theAfrican continent. The paper reviews the landscape of research output from the Africancontinent; analyses open access research output, overviews of institutional knowledge sharingpositions and the dissemination of research output from Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa andUganda.

    https://doi.org/10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2020.20
    Source: HAL:hal-02544891v1
    Volume: Charting The Futures(s) of Digital Publishing
    Section: Long Papers
    Published on: April 18, 2020
    Accepted on: April 18, 2020
    Submitted on: April 18, 2020
    Keywords: open knowledge,research output,Africa,institutional repositories,[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences

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