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| Title: | Indexing Africa: revisiting the issue of knowledge production and distribution |
| Editors: | Le Roux, Elizabeth Nwosu, Peter Ogum |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Africa Media Review (ISSN 0258-4913) |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Pages: | 98 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | periodicals research publishing information management bibliography |
| Abstract: | This issue of 'Africa Media Review', emerging from the annual meeting of CODESRIA's journal editors held in Nairobi, Kenya, 4-5 November 2004, focuses on the promises and challenges of indexing African journals in the wider context of producing and disseminating African scholarship. Knowledge production and distribution in turn are intimately linked to issues of power, control and access. The most significant indexes for scholarly journals are all based in the North and their criteria for inclusion, while claiming objectivity, are skewed towards journals produced in the North. A committed body of African editors and scholars is required to help turn this situation around. Editors of African journals should strive to ensure that the journals meet the criteria for inclusion in international indexing mechanisms, while an Africa-specific index, with different selection criteria, should also be set up. The online era also opens up new possibilities for marketing and expanding a journal's reaches, making it more visible and accessible. At the same time African scholars must address such questions as what does it mean to produce an 'African' journal and who should be the main audience as part of a much larger debate about how Africa defines itself, how Africans define their continent, and the place of their scholarship in Africa. Contents: Editorial: Indexing Africa: revisiting the issue of knowledge production and distribution (in English and French) (Elizabeth Le Roux and Peter Ogom Nwosu) - CODESRIA: 30 years of scholarly publishing (Adebayo Olukoshi and Francis B. Nyamnjoh) - Politics of indexation: beyond the fingering & figuring of knowledge (Imtiaz Ahmed) - Indexation for communication journals in Africa: the global knowledge economy and the politics of knowledge distribution (Peter Ogom Nwosu) - Visibility, credibility, prestige: evaluating the implications of indexing African journals (Elizabeth Le Roux) - Editing African social science: some reflections and suggestions (Jeffrey Lever) - Peer-review and the electronic journal: opportunities for the participation of developing countries' scientists in mainstream science (Williams Nwagwu). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
