Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa

Authors: Iryna Kuchma and Milica Ševkušić, EIFL

Contributors (country report authors listed alphabetically by country name):
Kamel Belhamel, University of Bejaia (Algeria); Joseph Sagbohan, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Ecole Polytechnique d'Abomey-Calavi (Bénin); Naniki S Maphakwane, Botswana Open University (Botswana); Zoé Aubierge Ouangré, Université Norbert Zongo (Burkina Faso); Cécile Outtara-Coulibaly, Université Virtuelle de Côte d’Ivoire (Côte d’Ivoire); Eliezer Bisimwa Mwongane, Université Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs (Democratic Republic of Congo); Getnet Lemma, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia); Richard Bruce Lamptey, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Library (Ghana); Arnold Mwanzu, Aga Khan University (Kenya); Buhle Mbambo-Thata, National University of Lesotho Libraries (Lesotho); Patrick Mapulanga, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (Malawi); Abdrahamane Anne, DER Santé Publique (Mali); Rachid Ayssi and Fadoua El Maguiri, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (Morocco); Horacio Zimba, Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique); Anna Leonard, University of Namibia (Namibia); Basiru Adetomiwa, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State and Fatimah Jibril Abduldayan, Federal University of Technology, Minna (Nigeria); Ina Smith and Susan Veldsman, Academy of Sciences in South Africa (South Africa); Innocent Azilan, Universités de Toulon et de Lomé (Togo); Bessem Aamira, CNUDST (Tunisia); Eness M. Miyanda-Chitumbo, The University of Zambia (Zambia); and Blessing Chiparausha, Bindura University of Science Education (Zimbabwe)

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This is an abridged version of the study "Landscape of no-fee open access publishing in Africa", published as a result of the project ‘Collaboration for sustainable open access publishing in Africa’ implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network) with support from Wellcome.

The full report can be found LINK

This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant number 228148/Z/23/Z]

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