SCAP Outputs - Changing Research Communication Practices and Open Scholarship: A Framework for Analysis

The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was a three-year research and implementation initiative that took place between March 2010 and August 2013. Hosted by the University of Cape Town, the programme engaged the Universities of Botswana, Namibia and Mauritius in a process aimed at better understanding the dynamics around scholarly communication in the Southern African higher education environment and advancing the open access agenda for the purpose of increasing the visibility of African research. This work was made possible by a grant from the Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC).

This paper, "Changing Research Communication Practices and Open Scholarship: A Framework for Analysis", describes the thinking during the development of the analytical framework. The analytical framework was developed from the conceptual framework used to shape the study through an iterative process with the data collected. 

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