Dakar Declaration on Open Access Publishing in Africa and the Global South

Nwanwu, Williams and Neupane, Bhanu and Babini, Dominique Dakar Declaration on Open Access Publishing in Africa and the Global South., 2016 UNSPECIFIED. [Other]

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We, the participants in the Fourth CODESRIA Conference on Electronic Publishing titled Open Access Movement and the Future of Africa’s Knowledge Economy and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), and the Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO), recognising the dare need to raise the global value attached to research information from the Global South, observing the poor access to scholarly outputs from the South and identifying the critical potentials of research information sharing and exchange in the overall wellbeing of our people, are convinced that Open access to scholarly research information is required to redress the historically rooted deficit of Africa and the Global South in the global knowledge domain. We met in Dakar Senegal during March 29 to April 1 2016 to give Global South accent to the open access movement and set standards that would guide the practice of open access publishing in the regions. We thus hereby adopt the Dakar Declaration on Open Access Movement Africa and in the Global South on this 1st day of April, 2016.

Item type:	Other
Keywords:	open access, Africa, Global South, CODESRIA, UNESCO, CLACSO, Dakar Declaration on Open Access in Africa and the Global South
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user:	Dra. Dominique Babini
Date deposited:	12 Aug 2023 09:16
Last modified:	12 Aug 2023 09:16
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44239

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