The increasing demand for access to higher education in East African countries has opened opportunities for universities to develop robust distance education programmes, according to University of Nairobi Vice-chancellor Professor George Magoha.
Across Africa, academics and researchers face financial barriers that keep them from accessing the same knowledge their peers elsewhere in the world can afford.
Good science should have no boundaries. That was the strong message from Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European commissioner for research, last month at the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference at Stellenbosch University.Business Daily.
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ACCESS barriers to published research “result in critical, relevant knowledge and research outputs in Africa being published in overseas journals — journals that are not affordable to African academic libraries”, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said at the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference last week.
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Capetown, Friday 10 August 2012. The seminar Global participation in e-research and scholarly communication: Open access strategies for African institutions is an official pre-event to the international Berlin10 open access conference ‘Networked scholarship in a networked world: Participation in Open Access’, Stellenbosch, 6–8 November 2012.