Academic spring – open access policies take the world by storm
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2012-04
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University of Cape Town. OpenUCT
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If we really want to emulate the best practices of global scholarly publishing it is now very clear that open access publishing is something that we have to embrace. This is doubly good news, because open access offers African researchers, their universities and governments the opportunity to overcome the barriers that face dissemination of African research in its attempts to penetrate the dominant commercial scholarly publishing block. OA has the promise of real reach and impact – locally and internationally – and it now has the unequivocal backing of major international organisations. But there is also going to be some work to do to ensure that the policies we develop conform to our own needs, not just those of developed countries.
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Gray, E. 2012-04. Academic spring – open access policies take the world by storm. Other. University of Cape Town. OpenUCT.