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Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa
Dissertation (MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27063 Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa Galloway, Francis lrouxeh@unisa.ac.za Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette Knowledge generation Knowledge production University press Scholarly communication Academic publishing Scholarly publishing Africa institute of south africa African studies UCTD Dissertation (MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2007. Based on informal discussions with a range of scholars across the African continent, it was felt that there was a need for a scholarly publisher located in Africa, focusing on African content, and targeting an African audience. It had also been expressed by a number of researchers, and was of wider potential interest – given the author’s institutional situation and context at the time, as well as management imperatives – that the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) could use its existing capacity and strengths in the area of African studies, specifically from a social science and development perspective, and its networks on the African continent, to form a possible institutional base for such a press, through the expansion of its publishing division. But there was no certainty as to whether this was in fact a viable business idea. Thus, this study carries out a feasibility study, to investigate and evaluate whether a scholarly press focusing on African material would be viable in the current South African, continental and international context. The study takes the form of a literature survey, questionnaire-based empirical survey, and business planning exercise. The key research question that is investigated is: Given the limitations of and challenges currently facing the South African (and wider African) scholarly publishing industry, could a scholarly publisher working according to the above vision be viably set up, and how could this be achieved? Broad support is found for the notion of a new scholarly publisher, and a business plan is developed to show how such a press could be set up, working within certain constraints and assumptions. Information Science MIS Unrestricted 2013-09-07T10:20:23Z 2008-04-16 2013-09-07T10:20:23Z 2007-09-05 2007 2007-08-06 Dissertation Le Roux, EH 2007, Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa, MIS Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27063> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27063 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08062007-120551/ © University of Pretor application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Knowledge generation Knowledge production University press Scholarly communication Academic publishing Scholarly publishing Africa institute of south africa African studies UCTD Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa |
| title | Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa |
| title_full | Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa |
| title_short | Transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press : a feasibility study of the Africa Institute of South Africa |
| title_sort | transforming a publishing division into a scholarly press a feasibility study of the africa institute of south africa |
| topic | Knowledge generation Knowledge production University press Scholarly communication Academic publishing Scholarly publishing Africa institute of south africa African studies UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27063 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08062007-120551/ |