Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap

Raju, Reggie; Raju, Jaya; Claassen, Jill

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“…Bhat (2014) while studying the research data in Indian IRs found that majority of the repositories have "journal articles" archived with "DSpace" as the prioritized software. Ezema and Okafor (2015), Raju et al (2015) found that "ETDs" are the most prevalent content in IRs. Singh (2016) confirms the high use of "DSpace" for the creation of repositories with a predominance of IRs having an operational status.…”

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“…The number of IRs outscores more in comparison to the functional IRs (70) since the content type is available in more than one repository Table V. Content type "journal articles," "conference proceedings," "faculty or departmental journals," and "inaugural lectures" were the most prevalent content in IRs. Raju et al (2015) observe that the "prevalent content in the IRs is a tie between "ETDs" and "articles followed by chapters in books," "conference papers," and "inaugural lectures," correspondingly." Bangani (2018) observes "ETD's" as the main content deposited to IRs followed by "journal articles," and "conference proceedings."…”

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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

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Bashir

Ganaie

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied. Design/methodology/approach Open directory of open access repositories (DOAR) as a data-gathering tool was consulted for extracting the desired data. Findings India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lead other South Asian nations in terms of IRs count. Majority of the IRs are operational in nature with higher number of operational IRs from India. In terms of record count, India leads the list. “Journal articles” outscore other content type and majority of the IRs have OAI-PMH as their base URL. DSpace stays a prioritized software for content management in IRs. Majority of the IRs have not defined their content management policies. English stays a prioritized language of the content dotting the South Asian IRs and majority of the IRs not providing usage statistics. A good score of IRs has incorporated Web 2.0 tools in them with RSS as the preferred Web 2.0 tool. A good count of the IRs has not customized their interface. Majority of the IRs have interface in two languages. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of the study is that the findings of the research are based on the data collected through the repositories indexed by Open DOAR. Originality/value The study tries to explore the characteristic features of IRs from the South Asian region.

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Section: Review Of Related Literaturementioning

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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

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Bashir

Ganaie

2019

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“…McKiernan (2017) shares the above view when she writes that “open scholarship can help universities fulfil their missions by sharing research outputs, so they have the quickest and broadest societal impact.” Raju et al (2015) hold the view that ultimately, the sharing of scholarly output will have a domino effect on growing the culture of research culminating in Africa moving away from the periphery of the world’s knowledge production to the epicentre—moving away from being a net consumer to becoming a contributor to knowledge production.…”

Section: Library Publishing In South Africamentioning

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An authentic flip subscription model for Africa: library as publisher service

Raju

Claassen

Pietersen

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PurposeThis paper investigates the fit for purpose of the flip model proposed by Max Planck Society and Plan S for the African environment. This flipped model is examined against the backdrop of African imperatives, which is much broader than just flipping a journal pricing model from subscription to open access. This paper also seeks a viable alternative model that supports the growth of African scholarship and the dissemination thereof.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a descriptive research methodology, which allows for an in-depth analysis of a phenomenon. By using this method, this paper describes a flip model proposed by global north entities, which do not augur well for the growth of the OA movement in Africa.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that the global north centric flipped model exacerbates the inequality in the publishing landscape by further marginalizing the research voices from the global south. Africa is in dire need of an alternative that denorthernizes the publishing landscape, promote equity and equality, and is more inclusive of the research voices from Africa. South African academic libraries have demonstrated their willingness to experiment with and roll-out library publishing services. This proof of concept has been extended into a continental platform for the publication and dissemination of African scholarship.Originality/valueThis paper will be of interest to those who are grappling with viable alternatives to the current flip models, which include, inter alia, university leadership. This paper will also be of interest to global north libraries who are embarking on library publishing without the social justice obligation but are committed to the OA movement.

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“…19 Raju, Raju, and Claassen hold the view that the sharing of scholarly output will have a domino effect of growing the culture of research, ultimately culminating in Africa moving away from the periphery of the world's knowledge production to the epicenter-moving away from being a net consumer to becoming a contributor to knowledge production. 20 A significant contributor to this transformation from consumer to participant is the offer of a "library as a publisher" service. The rationale underpinning this service is one of the core principles of open access, namely philanthropy.…”

Section: Library Publishing In South Africamentioning

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Social Justice and Inclusivity: Drivers for the Dissemination of African Scholarship

Raju,

Claassen,

Madini

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Reassembling Scholarly Communications

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Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap

Abstract: South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent.

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

An authentic flip subscription model for Africa: library as publisher service

Social Justice and Inclusivity: Drivers for the Dissemination of African Scholarship

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