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Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit
London: Mental Health Innovation Network; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2015), 27 pp.
"This toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The principles in this toolkit can be applied to all stakeholders, including policy-makers, and to key messages about your project’s implementation and policy influence activities. This to
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Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials: Strategies, Tips, and Tools to Manage Controversy, Convey Your Message, and Disseminate Results
Research Triangle Park, North Carol.: FHI 360; USAID; Microbicides Media and Communications Initiative (mmci) (2014), xv, 252 pp.
"This handbook is designed to serve the needs of anyone who conducts, plans, or implements clinical trials—especially trials that evaluate new drugs or interventions in a community setting. We want to make your job easier, whether you are a researcher, a study coordinator, or a communications prof
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Which World Bank Reports Are Widely Read?
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 32 pp.
"About 49 percent of the World Bank’s policy reports, which are published Economic and Sector Work or Technical Assistance reports, have the stated objective of informing the public debate or influencing the development community. This study uses information on downloads and citations to assess wh
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Disseminating the Research Findings
World Health Organization (WHO) (2014), 163 pp.
Advances in African and Arab Science Journalism: Capacity Building and New Newsroom Structures Through Digital Peer-To-Peer Support
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 4-22
"Journalists who regularly cover science, health, environment and technology in Africa and the Arab world face a number of difficulties: Lack of elementary resources for journalistic research, and newsroom environments that are not always supportive of specialised reporting. Also a need for capacity
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Open Content: A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences
Bonn; Berlin; Köln: German Commission for UNESCO (DUK); Wikimedia Deutschland; North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz) (2014), 78 pp.
"With this publication, we intend to provide interested individuals and organisations with practical guidelines for the use and application of open content licences: How do open content licences work? How do I choose the most suitable licence for my individual needs? Where can I find open content on
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Indicadores de acceso abierto y comunicaciones académicas en América Latina
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2014), 169 pp.
Print Vs Electronic, and the ‘digital Revolution’ in Africa
Lochcarron, Wester Ross: Hans Zell Publishing (2013), 30 pp.
"This article takes a critical look at the print vs digital debate in Africa, taking stock of the current position as it relates to electronic publishing and the use of electronic reading devices in (English-speaking) sub-Saharan Africa, and the rapidly changing publishing environment on the contine
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The Handbook of Journal Publishing
Key Guides
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2013), xii, 467 pp.
"The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishing, both online and in print. Journals are crucial to scholarly communication, but changes in recent years in the way journals are produced, financed, a
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"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and
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Guide for Uncertainty Communication
The Hague: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (2013), 26 pp.
"Dealing with uncertainty has been an important and distinct topic for PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (formerly MNP) and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), in terms of analysis and communication. Acting responsibly with regard to this issue is
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How to communicate research for policy influence. Toolkit No 3: Engage with media
Buenos Aires: CIPPEC (2013), 6 pp.
Passing on the Hot Potato: Lessons from a Policy Brief Experiment
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 68-75
"Research has potential to improve the lives of the world’s vulnerable people – if it is appropriately referred to in decision-making processes. While there is a significant industry of activity each year to communicate research findings, little systematic research has tested or compared the eff
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Reframing Digital Storytelling as Co-creative
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 91-97
"This study of the digital storytelling (DST) project at the South Asia Hub of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium examines the capacity of DST practice to articulate women’s diverse experiences of empowerment, given the genre’s formalities and narrative guideline
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Radio, ICT Convergence and Knowledge Brokerage: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 76-83
"This article examines the changing role of radio for development in sub-Saharan Africa as ‘new’ Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) increasingly enter the information landscape. Grounded in the empirical findings of a research programme – Radio, Convergence and Development in Af
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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 76 pp.
Introduction: Is Development Research Communication Coming of Age?
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 2-8
"In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin. We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and theoretical context within which development research communication is being put into
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Changing the Financial Landscape of Africa: An Unusual Story of Evidence-informed Innovation, Intentional Policy Influence and Private Sector Engagement
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 84-90
"This article uses the Steven Framework to show the influence of research on the policies and practices of mobile money transfer and mobile phone-enabled payments in Africa. While it is a muchdiscussed subject, few people know the wider narrative by which products such as M-Pesa were intentionally c
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This Research does not Influence Policy
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 25 -29
"This article concerns a study whose questions, methods and analytical conclusions were the work of a group of Karimojong in Uganda. Its report included text and photographs, plain language, direct voices and faces, and little theorising. When it was disseminated it appealed to local people and to a
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New Perspectives on Strengthening Science Journalism in Developing Countries: Approach and First Results of the ‘SjCOOP’ Mentoring Project
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 157-172
"Many different educational and training sessions focusing on science journalism have been offered to journalists in Africa in the past decades. However, there is still insufficient quality reporting on health, environment, technology and science. We propose a new, flexible and needs-oriented concep
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