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Understanding Digital Libraries
Oxford: Elsevier, 2nd ed. (2005), xxxi, 424 pp.
Communicating Food Policy Research: A Guidebook
Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2005), vii, 159 pp.
"This manual aims to help researchers enhance their communication skills and encourages them to think about the potential audiences for and beneficiaries of their research at the inception of every project. The manual highlights principles and procedures that have proven successful in presenting res
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E-Publishing in Developing Economies
Canadian Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 3 (2004), pp. 329-341
"Electronic publishing has been heralded as a worldwide solution to information dissemination. This article considers the problems experienced by traditional journals published in the developing world, with particular reference to those published in sub-Saharan Africa. The opportunities offered by e
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Science and Technology Communication for Development
Plos Biology, volume 2, issue 1 (2004), pp. 28-29
"[...] it is important that the practice of science communication reflects the fact that it takes place in social context. In other words, it is not just a question of conveying information, but also of engaging the potential users of that information. The need is to encourage dialogue and eventuall
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Designing and Implementing the First Environmental and Science Journalism Course for an Uzbekistan Journalism School
Applied Environmental Education & Communication, volume 3, issue 3 (2004), pp. 153-161
"Uzbekistan faces severe ecological problems including the rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, desertification, residues of biochemical weapons, and environmentally related respiratory disease. Even so, the country’s print and broadcast media do little in-depth or analytical reporting on environmental iss
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Digital Publishing and Open Access for Social Science Research Dissemination: A Case Study
Cape Town: Eve Gray & Associates (2004), 25 pp.
"Charts the planning and implementation of a digital publishing programme over a three-year period at the Human Sciences Research Council, a large South African social science research body. The case study is contextualised in the need to overcome the digital divide to give African scholars a real v
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Guide to Business Planning for Launching a New Open Access Journal
New York: Open Society Institute, 2nd ed. (2003), 66 pp.
UNESCO's Basic Texts on the Information Society
Paris: UNESCO (2003), 112 pp.
African Journals Online (AJOL): An Internal Evaluation, 2000-2002
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2003), 15 pp.
"An internal evaluation of the African Journals Online (AJOL) project following the first three years of the full programme, aimed at discovering the overall impact of AJOL and how the service might be improved. The main objectives of the evaluation were to find out (i) whether the results of resear
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Introduction to Digital Libraries
London: Facet Publishing (2003), xv, 359 pp.
Scholarly Publishing in Africa: A Case Study of African University Presses
Stirling, Scotland: University of Stirling, Department of English Studies, Doctoral Thesis (2003), 235 pp.
"This wide-ranging dissertation examines the policies and practices of six sub-Saharan Africa university presses in five African countries (in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe), to investigate how far the presses have adopted, and/or have adapted, their policies to suit the environmen
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INASP Directory 2002/2003
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), 350 pp.
"While not specifically focusing on Africa, this directory from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is a useful resource as it provides detailed information on almost 400 agencies, organizations, institutions, learned societies, professional associations
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"One in a series of guidebooks and training manuals for journal editors in developing countries that are active in the field of agriculture and rural development. They aim to assist editors to improve their publishing operations, and provide more effective communication of the scholarship and the re
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