TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trotter,Henry
AU  - King,Thomas
AU  - Gray,Eve Horwitz
AU  - Willmers,Michelle
AU  - Kell,Catherine
ED  - University of Cape Town.
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa 
SN  - 9781620677551
AV  - Z286.S37 T767 2014
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Africa, Southern
KW  - Research
KW  - Publishing
KW  - Open access publishing
KW  - Scholarly publishing
KW  - Communication in learning and scholarship
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246); Executive summary -- Programme overview -- Project components and methodology -- The Southern African university context -- Scholarly communication policy landscape in Southern Africa -- Research and communication practices -- The SCAP implementation initiative -- Challenges, contradictions and opportunities -- Key findings -- Recommendations -- References; Open Access
N2  - African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholars' work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/32990/
ER  -