<div dir="auto">Botswana Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 27 May 2018, 13:52 Girma Aweke, <<a href="mailto:girma2121@gmail.com">girma2121@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear Ina<div dir="auto">Thanks for the information.</div><div dir="auto">Here in ethiopia,we have one.</div><div dir="auto">I.e. <a href="http://ejol.aau.edu.et" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://ejol.aau.edu.et</a></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 25 May 2018 7:22 am Ina Smith, <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">In an effort to make <b>African scholarly research output more visible</b>, 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.</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Through the <a href="https://doaj.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">Directory of Open Access Journal initiative (DOAJ)</span></a>, 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 <a href="https://doaj.org/application/new" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">completing
the online form</span></a>.</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">The <b>African DOAJ Ambassadors</b> would be more than prepared working with you in making your journal becoming DOAJ compliant. The DOAJ Ambassadors for the African continent
include:</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Kamel Belhamel (North Africa) <a href="mailto:kamel@doaj.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">kamel@doaj.org</span></a></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Pascal Soubeiga (West Africa) <a href="mailto:pascal@doaj.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">pascal@doaj.org</span></a></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Solomon Mekonnen (East Africa) <a href="mailto:solomon@doaj.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">solomon@doaj.org</span></a></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Ina Smith (Southern Africa) <a href="mailto:ina@doaj.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">ina@doaj.org</span></a></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">The number of scholarly journals per country in <b>Southern Africa included in DOAJ </b>(please visit DOAJ for other African countries):</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Angola: 0</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Botswana: 0</span></b><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Lesotho: 0</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> <b>Madagascar: 0</b></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Malawi: 0</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Mauritius: 2</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> <b>Mozambique: 0</b></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> <b>Namibia: 0</b></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Seychelles: 0</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> <b>South Africa: 89</b></span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Eswatini (Swaziland): 0 </span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Tanzania: 0</span></b><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Zambia: 0</span></b><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79"> Zimbabwe: 0</span></b><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">Thank you so much for assisting with this!</span><span style="color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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