Within the rigours of an increasingly competitive global higher education environment, institutions are under pressure to provide evidence of the value of their services.
The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme investigated alternative methodologies for a more Afrocentric approach to research evaluation.
In higher education, altmetrics – “alternative metrics” or article-level metrics – are being used to measure and track scholarship in new ways.
One of the core underpinnings of the open access publishing movement is public access to publicly funded research.
While there are extensive publicly available guides on scholarly communication, institutions need to articulate strategies based on their objectives, capacity, infrastructure and other factors.