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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Deadline: 28 April 2025</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81); font-weight: 600;">Introduction<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">The LINK Centre invites quotations from qualified South African consultants for provision, on a fixed-term contract basis, of five months of scholarly publishing support to LINK’s open access, accredited, peer-reviewed
academic journal, </span><span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><i><a href="https://ajic.wits.ac.za/" id="OWAe33ee631-b732-155f-5628-fff23dc5a14d" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC)</a></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">.</span></div>
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PDF version</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81);"> of this Request for Consultant Quotations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">TERMS OF REFERENCE<br>
Period of contract: </span>1 June to 31 October 2025 (five months)<br>
<span style="font-weight: 600;">Reporting to: </span><i>AJIC </i>Publishing Editor, Wits LINK Centre<br>
<span style="font-weight: 600;">Deliverables<br>
</span>With guidance and oversight from the <i>AJIC</i> Publishing Editor, the consultant will provide the following deliverables:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">1. Increase discoverability and visibility of <i>
AJIC</i> articles and authors</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">1.1 References metadata completion</span>: Populate “References” field, on
<i>AJIC</i>’s Khulisa Journals Platform site, <span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">
<a href="https://ajic.wits.ac.za/" id="OWA900d465d-10e8-d2f9-f5e6-637768e9ee3e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://ajic.wits.ac.za</a></span><i>,
</i>for all articles in Issues 1 to 26 (published between 2000 and 2020).</li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2.41rem;">
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Note: For Issues 1 to 9 (2000 to 2008), <i>AJIC</i> was <i>The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication (SAJIC</i>).</li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
Note: The Khulisa Journals Platform, managed by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), runs on the PKP Open Journal Systems software,
<span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs" id="OWAeeab2416-80cc-a3e6-b164-d5d9c3298320" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs</a></span>.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">1.2 ORCID metadata completion:</span> Add missing author ORCID metadata to article DOI registrations with Crossref, to article metadata on
<i>AJIC</i>’s Khulisa Journals site, and to article metadata in the <i>AJIC </i>and
<i>SAJIC</i> collections in the Wits WIReDSpace institutional repository: <span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">
<a href="https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/19251" id="OWA9ffaf1ea-b49d-27bc-95c2-511c9cb4ece6" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/19251</a></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><a href="https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/28051" id="OWAc0084517-5d15-5deb-efa5-adc7d14b8849" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/28051</a></span></li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
<span style="font-weight: 600;">1.3 Management of translation of article titles and abstracts:</span> Manage provision of professional, high-quality translations, into French and Portuguese, of titles and abstracts of 39 articles published in Issues 29 to 34
(2022 to 2024) (a total of 78 translations, each approx. 200 words in length)</li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2.41rem;">
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Note: The translators will be contracted and paid by the Wits LINK Centre, and thus the consultant quotation should not include translation costs.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">4 Publication of translated article titles and abstracts:</span> Using the OJS plug-in for translated content, publish the translated article titles and abstracts on
<i>AJIC</i>’s Khulisa Journals site</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">2. Deepen subject matter expertise on <i>AJIC</i> Editorial Advisory Board</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">2.1 Journal subject matter audit</span>: Perform audit of the most prevalent subject matter areas addressed by submissions to, and published content in,
<i>AJIC</i>, with identification of most prominent subject matter areas of the past five years, from April 2021 to April 2025.</li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
<span style="font-weight: 600;">2.2 Board subject matter expertise audit: </span>
Perform audit of the subject matter expertise of existing Editorial Advisory Board members,
<span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><a href="https://ajic.wits.ac.za/about/editorialTeam" id="OWAe4b1c61b-1398-a8c4-beba-d2b44069d6c0" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://ajic.wits.ac.za/about/editorialTeam</a></span>, and the
degree to which the journal’s most prevalent subject matter areas of the past five years are matched by Board expertise; and identify subject matter areas where additional expertise needs to be added to the Board.</li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
<span style="font-weight: 600;">2.3 Identification of potential new Board members:</span> Identify individuals to be considered for invitation to serve on the Board in add the necessary additional expertise identified in deliverable 2.2</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">3. Enhance recognition of peer reviewers</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">3.1 Implementation of ReviewerCredits system: </span>
Enroll <i>AJIC </i>in the free version of ReviewerCredits, <span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">
<a href="https://www.reviewercredits.com/recognise-and-reward-your-peer-reviewers" id="OWA3306d9e9-4a71-bce7-a711-0a45bd9eb1eb" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://www.reviewercredits.com/recognise-and-reward-your-peer-reviewers</a></span>, and
provide ReviewerCredits<span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span>to all <i>AJIC</i> peer reviewers listed in Issues 10 to 34 (published from 2010 to 2024)</li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
<span style="font-weight: 600;">3.2 Facilitation of reviewer adoption of ReviewerCredits system:
</span>Liaise with all<span style="font-weight: 600;"> </span><i>AJIC</i> peer reviewers who have been provided with
<i>AJIC</i> credits in the ReviewerCredits system (as per deliverable 3.1), to make them aware of
<i>AJIC</i>’s use of the system and to advise them to consider signing up to the platform and integrating it with their ORCID profiles:
<span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><a href="https://www.reviewercredits.com/what-we-offer-to-peer-reviewers" id="OWAd3a07fae-7b2d-7e86-4ed3-3cef6d6a326b" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">https://www.reviewercredits.com/what-we-offer-to-peer-reviewers</a></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;"> SUBMISSION OF QUOTATIONS<br>
</span>Qualified South African consultants are asked to please submit the following:</div>
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a cover letter that includes details of the consultant’s previous work on scholarly publishing matters</li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
the consultant’s up-to-date CV, including SA ID number, SARS tax reference number, and names and contact details of two referees familiar with the consultant’s previous work on scholarly publishing matters</li><li style="font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">
a quotation for the consultant’s provision of the above-listed deliverables between 1 June and 31 October 2025</li></ol>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81); font-weight: 600;">The three documents listed above must please be submitted via email to:<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81);">Dr. Chris Armstrong, Wits LINK Centre,
</span><span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><a href="mailto:chris.armstrong@wits.ac.za" id="OWA6649cd9e-9982-ca81-f535-75a6826ad199" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">chris.armstrong@wits.ac.za</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81);"> <br>
cc: Nokhanyo Yolwa, Wits LINK Centre, </span><span style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);"><a href="mailto:nokhanyo.yolwa@wits.ac.za" id="OWAefe4f95e-6eb9-5465-da43-d458ce874bdd" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(80, 139, 172);">nokhanyo.yolwa@wits.ac.za</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 600;">Deadline for submission of quotations:<br>
</span>28 April 2025</div>
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