The African Journal of Information and Communication Issue No 10, 2009 / 2010 Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge

The African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC), a South African Department of Education accredited journal, is published by the Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This thematic edition of the African Journal of Information and Communication - Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge - addresses an aspect of ‘information society’ discourse that has taken shape in the world of universities, research, publishing and creative works.

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• Editors' Comment - Lucienne Abrahams & Eve Gray


• Access to Africa’s knowledge: Publishing development research and measuring value - Eve Gray


• Research productivity-visibility-accessibility and scholarly communication in Southern African universities - Lucienne Abrahams, Mark Burke & Johann Mouton


• Copyright and education in Africa: Lessons on African copyright and access to knowledge - Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya & Achal Prabhala


• Dazzling technologies’: Addressing the digital divide in the Southern African universities- Piyushi Kotecha


• Institutional Review: Open Access and Open knowledge production processes: Lessons from CODESRIA- Francis Nyamnjoh


• Case Notes: Open Access advocacy workshop: Maximising research quality and impact- Iryna Kuchma & Kondwani Wella


• Legislative Review: Review of IPR Act and regulations: Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, No 51 of 2008, Republic of South Africa- Pria Chetty


• Book Reviews Compilation: Open Access books on Open scholarly communications - Andrew Rens, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Kevin Williams & Eve Gray

Guest Editors on Issue 10 - Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge:

Lucienne Abrahams, LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, P O Box 601, Wits, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa; and

Eve Gray, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa

Special thanks for refereeing on this Thematic Edition on Scholarly Communications and Opening Access to Knowledge to: Leslie Chan, University of Toronto at Scarborough (Canada); Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal (Canada); Colin Steele, Australian National University (Australia); Ewan Sutherland (Belgium).

The research reported in this edition of the African Journal of Information and Communication is made possible through the support of the following organisations:

• International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada)
  
• Shuttleworth Foundation, South Africa
  
• Department for International Development (DFID, UK)