by Felicia Kuagbedzi | Sep 19, 2022 | AAU Workshops
Viewpoints and contributions from Africa and Europe Authors, globally, publish a large proportion of their research articles in scholarly journals that charge fees for open access. With fee-based open access publishing growing rapidly, there is increasing concern...
by Nodumo Dhlamini | Aug 16, 2021 | AAU Actualités, AAU Webinars, AAU Workshops, Featured Articles
The growth of the African continental publishing platform The open access (OA) movement has been growing across the world albeit not at the anticipated pace. As much as this philanthropic movement advances the open sharing of scholarship, the movement has evolved with...
by Felicia Kuagbedzi | Sep 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
SHERPA/ROMEO and opening access to research The inequality of access to information among scientists becomes a crucial factor in formal science, and Africa can be said to be suffering from a scientific information famine. This famine has largely been due to the high...