Nigeria’s higher education system is the biggest on the continent but it lags behind on research output.
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Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
Globally, the scholarly publishing system is in dire need of financial and legislative change.
Politicians on the right surely wipe with their left hand; and vice versa?
“Soft” infrastructure includes the services, policies or practices that keep academic research working and open. Without a funded, coordinated national approach the private sector may take control.
Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile journal articles – bad news for women’s career advancement.
If there’s a general sense that academic publication is about knowledge dissemination rather than meeting performance targets, academics and universities become less vulnerable to predatory journals.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something’s got to give.
Women can often draw attention to dimensions of thinking that their male perspective may miss. But this will only work if they are in positions that allow them to lead and drive the research agenda.
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
There is mounting evidence to show scientists and researchers why public engagement is worth their while.
There are many exciting new publishing opportunities opening up for academics who want to take their work beyond traditional spaces like journals.
Getting a scientific paper published about a significant finding - like the discovery of the world’s oldest axe - is challenge in itself.
Sci-Hub, a free online repository of academic articles, is the subject of a battle at the heart of open access.
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What’s holding them back?
African academics and universities have been caught in the predatory journal web. It’s time for the continent’s universities to start taking this threat to their integrity seriously.
South Africans’ access to important knowledge and research is incredibly limited. In this time of Open Access, why is this the case – and will it ever change?
To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked our readers what they wanted to know about the initiative. Here are their questions with answers from our experts.
We have the technology and the will to expand open access to publicly funded research, but large vested interests are still putting up stiff resistance.
Open access, publication consultants and growing author lists: where is the academic-publishing industry heading?
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Editor in Chief, Medical Journal of Australia, Queensland University of Technology
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Dean of Research, Humanities, Curtin University
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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PhD Candidate in Educational Management, Makerere University
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Researcher, University of Pretoria
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Belonging Science, School of Educational Psychology and Inclusion, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Director, Centre for Culture and Technology & Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Curtin University
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Associate Professor (Philosophy ), Makerere University
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Ph.D Candidate in Psychology, University of Washington
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Researcher, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London