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Open access and research dissemination in Africa

Domain:

digital infrastructure

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Wilson, KatieKiuna, AntonyLamptey, RichardVeldsman, Susan
Publisher:
Zenodo
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This paper discusses research undertaken by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) and participants during and following an Open Knowledge international workshop held in Mauritius in September 2019. The workshop brought together key experts to explore the role of open knowledge in the creation of equitable and inclusive global knowledge landscapes. This paper explores the role of open access and institutional repositories in knowledge sharing and the dissemination of research output from higher education and research institutions within the African continent. The paper reviews the landscape of research output from the African continent; analyses open access research output, overviews of institutional knowledge sharing positions and the dissemination of research output from Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.

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doi.org

Tags

Open knowledge, open access, research output, open science, Africa, institutional repositories, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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