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Accepted Paper:
Access to research information from Africa and in Africa: results from AJOL & Research4Life
Jos Damen
(African Studies Centre Leiden)
Paper short abstract:
African Journals Online (AJOL) promotes African research journals on its journal platform. Research4Life provides free access to academic journals to institutions in the Global South. Both have been working for over 20 years. This paper gives an overview of the results, and looks at new developments
Paper long abstract:
African Journals Online (AJOL), based in South Africa, has been promoting African research journals since 1998. As a journal aggregator platform it now hosts 555 journals based in Africa, including 192,399 full text journal articles, of which 131,291 articles are open access online. Research4Life provides free or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online to institutions in the Global South, since 2002. Anno 2022 30,000 journals and 129,000 books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and legal information are available. How have AJOL and Research4Life developed over a period of more than 20 years, and what were the results in the last 5 years? What developments lay ahead regarding making African research more visible and regarding making research journals in general better accessible in Africa?