Let's publish local research
Eve Gray gave us serious food for thought. Think about how we can change the picture of global research if we publish local research in D-space or whatever other space! Africa will then look normal, not like the sceleton of an undernourished orphin child the way we saw it today.... why don't we take up this challenge. Come to think about it, we don't owe those fat cats in the north anything- why give it to them? And then still having to pay 'them' for it, like our Wits professor mentioned this morning. Rubbish! Writing is on the wall - let's read it!
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I am not convinced.Our institutions often have a poor record of managing their own publications and administering them.
I certainly don't think it will be easy for us to get involved in publishing, but I agree with Janie in wanting to contribute to "changing the picture" of local publishing... and, sorry to use a cliche, but often "where there's a will..."
I've just attended a presentation on "Digital Commons", a IR platform developed by bepress, Berkely Electronic Press. I was impressed to see that Macalester College, a small US college with apparently just 1,800 FTE students, publish no less than 9 journals (including a journal on Somali studies)!
http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/
It made me feel much more optimistic about the prospects for digital publishing in the South...
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