African research journals: Challenges and opportunities
Abstract
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The need for scholarly journals as a means of dissemination of outputs from African research
efforts, particularly the problems and innovations unique to African and related conditions, is
overwhelming; yet the operational environment is quite increasingly disenabling. A range of
factors can be blamed for the prevailing scenario, but the existence of springboard
opportunities, spearheaded by the research and publication enthusiasm among experts on
the continent, provide a major entry-point for any agency that would wish to intervene. This
abstract presents the status of journal publishing in Africa, with a thrust on the major challenges
and opportunities available for bolstering this pertinent research component. Emphasis is
directed towards utilisation of the trendy Open Access Journal (OAJ) systems to lower
operational costs, increase author and journal visibility and achieve timely publishing, which
are some of the key criteria used by authors to choose journals to which to submit their
manuscripts.
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