{"id":17570,"date":"2016-06-28T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T10:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=17570"},"modified":"2016-06-28T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T10:18:04","slug":"africa-is-coming-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/06\/28\/africa-is-coming-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa is coming online"},"content":{"rendered":"

While African research universities usually have better commercial journal database access than their counterparts in the West (thanks to aid deals), what of public access to African-focused research? Great to hear an African voice on this<\/a>, as Africa starts to buckle up for growth and international access. Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr. of Nigeria says that there is an…<\/p>\n

“overwhelming call for the accessibility of African research [about Africa, but that this] has stretched traditional archiving methods.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With a substantial increase in population and wealth now happening on the continent, he asks if there is now an opportunity… <\/p>\n

“for archiving and digitising African-focused research [in order to] make African research accessible on a global scale.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s hope so. Although the author also suggests a commercial option, seemingly more in terms of access to contemporary and commercial data…<\/p>\n

“monetising the whole process through a subscription model for online hosting of knowledge resources \u2013 books, research papers, journals, dissertations, and reports to investors, product and policy developers. [With African researchers getting] “a revenue share for each download”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That might work for useful locally-created data — one might get the article or substantial data summary for free, anywhere in the world. But if you’re outside Africa then you’d buy<\/em> the data download direct from the researcher, and in affluent nations your university would require you do that as part of your ethics code as a researcher. Though I’m not sure a commercial pay-per-download model would be useful for things like folklore, the arts, oral history and natural history, which might be better funded by a big pan-African consortium of nations, philanthropists and donors. And thus kept freely available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While African research universities usually have better commercial journal database access than their counterparts in the West (thanks to aid …<\/p>\n

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