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AJIC Issue 10, 2009/2010

THEMATIC ISSUE: SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND OPENING ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE

ISSUE EDITORS
Lucienne Abrahams, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Johannesburg
Eve Gray, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town

REVIEWERS
Special thanks for refereeing on this issue to: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto at Scarborough (Canada); Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal (Canada); Colin Steele, Australian National University (Australia); and Ewan Sutherland (Belgium). The research reported in this issue of AJIC was made possible through the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), Shuttleworth Foundation (South Africa), and the Department for International Development (DFID, UK).

INTRODUCTION

Editors' Comment - Lucienne Abrahams and Eve Gray

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value - Eve Gray

Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities - Lucienne Abrahams, Mark Burke and Johann Mouton

Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge - Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya and Achal Prabhala

'Dazzling Technologies': Addressing the Digital Divide in the Southern African Universities - Piyushi Kotecha

INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW

Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA - Francis Nyamnjoh

CASE NOTES

Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact - Iryna Kuchma and Kondwani Wella

LEGISLATIVE REVIEW

Review of IPR Act and Regulations: Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, No 51 of 2008, Republic of South Africa - Prialoshni Chetty

BOOK REVIEWS COMPILATION

Open Access Books on Open Scholarly Communications - Andrew Rens, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Kevin Williams and Eve Gray

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