2013
DOI: 10.1629/2048-7754.26.1.44
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Opening access to African scholarly content: Stellenbosch University's AOARI platforms

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“…The high subscription cost inhibits the exposure of African research scientists to these discoveries and their ability to either use the most up-to-date research knowledge to strengthen their research or to build upon said research [ 19 - 21 ]. This can lead to additional adverse consequences on education and research in Africa, which leads to a perpetuated cycle of restricted knowledge.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The high subscription cost inhibits the exposure of African research scientists to these discoveries and their ability to either use the most up-to-date research knowledge to strengthen their research or to build upon said research [ 19 - 21 ]. This can lead to additional adverse consequences on education and research in Africa, which leads to a perpetuated cycle of restricted knowledge.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, these OA journals raise the second key challenge to equitable access to research and knowledge sharing in Africa: to offset the fact that OA journals have no subscription costs, they shift this burden to authors, charging high publishing fees ranging from US$1000 to US$2500 per publication [ 1 , 21 ]. This precludes African research scientists from being able to publish their findings in these OA journals.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Online learning encompasses the application of technology in pedagogy and provides the opportunity to increase equity in public health training in Africa. 24 , 25 , 26 African institutions face numerous barriers including access to technology, the cost of reliable high bandwidth internet, information technology human resource capacity, and socio-cultural barriers. 27 The uptake of hybrid learning can be particularly challenging for institutions in rural areas.…”
Section: Institutional Elementsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The survey that the authors of this paper conducted indicates that four institutions in South Africa are providing a hosting service (or acting as publisher) for the publication of OA journals. The software these four use is Open Journal Systems (OJS) (Raju, Smith, & Gibson, 2013).…”
Section: The Growth Of Institutional Repositories In Africamentioning
confidence: 99%