[IRTalk] African Journals on the Directory of Open Access Journals

[Othusitse Ricky Madibela]

Botswana Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences

On Sun, 27 May 2018, 13:52 Girma Aweke, <girma2121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Ina
> Thanks for the information.
> Here in ethiopia,we have one.
> I.e. http://ejol.aau.edu.et
> Regards
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2018 7:22 am Ina Smith, <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>>
>>
>> In an effort to make *African scholarly research output more visible*,
>> we would like to better understand which journals are currently published
>> in each country in Africa, and also which journals are available as Open
>> Access. Many academic libraries have started offering scholarly journal
>> hosting services using OJS (Open Journal Systems) software, in addition to
>> hosting institutional repositories using open source software such as
>> DSpace.
>>
>>
>>
>> Through the Directory of Open Access Journal initiative (DOAJ)
>> <https://doaj.org/>, we would like to encourage all African librarians
>> to assist African journals to make the transition to online and open
>> access. If the journal is already online and open access, please apply for
>> the journal to be included in DOAJ by completing the online form
>> <https://doaj.org/application/new>.
>>
>>
>>
>> The *African DOAJ Ambassadors* would be more than prepared working with
>> you in making your journal becoming DOAJ compliant. The DOAJ Ambassadors
>> for the African continent include:
>>
>>
>>
>> Kamel Belhamel (North Africa) kamel at doaj.org
>>
>> Pascal Soubeiga (West Africa) pascal at doaj.org
>>
>> Solomon Mekonnen (East Africa) solomon at doaj.org
>>
>> Ina Smith (Southern Africa) ina at doaj.org
>>
>>
>>
>> The number of scholarly journals per country in *Southern Africa
>> included in DOAJ *(please visit DOAJ for other African countries):
>>
>>
>>
>>  Angola: 0
>>
>> * Botswana: 0*
>>
>>  Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1
>>
>>  Lesotho: 0
>>
>>  *Madagascar: 0*
>>
>>  Malawi: 0
>>
>>  Mauritius: 2
>>
>>  *Mozambique: 0*
>>
>>  *Namibia: 0*
>>
>>  Seychelles: 0
>>
>>  *South Africa: 89*
>>
>>  Eswatini (Swaziland): 0
>>
>> * Tanzania: 0*
>>
>> * Zambia: 0*
>>
>> * Zimbabwe: 0*
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you so much for assisting with this!
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Ina
>>
>>
>>
>> *Ina Smith*
>>
>> Project Manager: African Open Science Platform
>> <http://africanopenscience.org.za/>
>> Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
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