Browsing Faculty of Education by Author "Fullard, Allison"
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Mohamed, Shehaamah; Fullard, Allison (2009)[more][less]
Abstract: African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) is an international disciplinary repository for research texts that focus on the practice and development of higher education in Africa. Distributed researchers upload their documents to AHERO through a semi-automated process. Launched in January 2007, AHERO now holds 435 full text research texts relating to African higher education. The paper will outline the project’s objectives and present the results of findings emerging from the two year experience of liaison with researchers and publishers as we attempted to recruit papers for the disciplinary archive. Description: Paper presented at the African Digital Scholarship and Curation conference, 12-14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/31 Files in this item: 1
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Fullard, Allison (Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2007)[more][less]
Abstract: Open access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/30 Files in this item: 2
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