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Title: | Access to e-journals and e-publishing initiatives in Ghana: successes, challenges and lessons learnt |
Authors: | Asamoah-Hassan, Helena R. |
Issue Date: | 2-Sep-2011 |
Abstract: | Electronic journals and electronic publishing are new ways of gaining quick access to a great
number of research information and disseminating globally, research information easily and
quickly respectively. Their positive properties far out weigh the negatives as far as research
and its output for development are concerned. Peer- reviewed Open Access journals have even
made e-journals and e-publishing the choice of many researchers because of its options of cost
effectiveness and great visibility of authors.
The paper shares experiences in efforts made to gain access to e-journals for research and
academic use in Ghana. Projects like INASP’s PERI that offered access to some e-journals at
no cost to Ghana for two years but now are being paid for, AGORA, HINARI, OARE, eIFL.net
and JSTOR which make a great number of e-journals available to developing countries
including Ghana, are presented. The various e-publishing initiatives introduced to researchers
and editors of scholarly journals in Ghana and whether there is adequate training and
infrastructure to handle these initiatives as well as the availability of such e-publishing
concerns are discussed. The activities of the Ghana Library Consortium (CARLIGH) to further
these causes are featured.
Challenges faced and how they were surmounted in the process of making relevant e-journals
available to the research and academic community as well as using e- publishing methods for
the wide dissemination of Ghanaian research results are presented to serve as lessons for
individuals and institutions thinking of gaining access to e-journals or embarking on epublishing. |
Description: | A paper presented for the Institutional Repository |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1194 |
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