Paper Christine Kanyengo Paper Joed Elich Paper Sofiane Bouhdiba Paper Peter Lor Paper Jean-Pierre Diouf Paper Diston Chiweza Paper John Paul Anbu K. Paper Jacob Jaygbay Paper Marlon Domingus Paper Eve Gray Paper George Gundu Shibanda Paper Mike Powell Paper Olivier Sagna Paper Daisy Ouya and Pippa Smart Paper Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Report Session 1 Report Session 2 Report Session 3 Report Session 4 

The CODESRIA-ASC Conference Series 2006: Electronic Publishing and Dissemination Convened by Afrika-Studiecentrum (ASC) Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) The conference is made possible thanks to a subsidy from the Ministry of Foreign affairs through the Development Policy Review Network Initiative (DPRN). Submission of papers 56 abstracts have been submitted and 25 have been selected by the steering committee of the conference. Programme Wednesday 6 September 2006 12:00 - 13:00 Registrations and Financial administration 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Opening by Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi 14:15 - 15:00 Keynote speech by dr. Paul F. Wouters 15:00 - 17:30 Paper Session: Academic knowledge for development in Africa 18:00 Diner in town Thursday 7 September 2006 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote speech by Prof. Peter Johan Lor 10:00 - 12:00 Paper Session: Bibliometrics and citations 12:00 Lunch (Faculty of Social Sciences) 14:00 - 17:00 Paper session: Publishing models for Africa 17:00 - 17:30 Official launch of Connecting-Africa 18:00 Buffet diner in town (offered by the University of Leiden: Open Access Leiden) Friday 8 September 2006 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote speech by Mr Olivier Sagna 10:00 - 12:00 Paper Session: The effects of ICTs on scholarly communication 12:00 - 12:15 Closing by Prof. Leo de Haan 12:30 Lunch (offered by Brill Academic Publishers) Paper Sessions
Wednesday 6 September - 15:00 - 17:30 Paper Session - Academic knowledge for development in Africa Chair: Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi (CODESRIA, Dakar) 1. (8) Name: Arunachalam Subbiah Affiliation: M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India Paper: Open Access inevitable for not only science and scholarship in Africa but also for overall development. 2. (42) Name: Mike Powell Affiliation: Development consultant, Sheffield, United Kingdom Paper: Which knowledge? Whose reality? An overview of knowledge used in the development sector 3. (51) Name: Frederick Kintu Affiliation: Programme Manager of the Information Society Foundation (ISF), Kampala, Uganda Paper: Manifestations of Scholarly Communication in Africa: The Case of the Uganda Health Information Network. 4. (50) Name: Eve Gray Affiliation: International Policy Fellow. Open Society Institute, Budapest and Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town. Paper: At the South-eastern Frontier: the impact of higher education policy on African research publication. 5. (3) Name: Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Affiliation: Brooklyn College, City University of NewYork, Department of Political Science Paper: Spinning an African Academy into the World Wide Web: the Liberatory and Democratic Potential of African Scholarship in Cyberspace 6. (56) Name: Jennifer A. De Beer Affiliation: eIFL / SIVULILE Paper: Open Access in developing and transition countries: eIFL and a view from South Africa Thursday 7 September - 10:00 - 12:00 Paper Session - Bibliometrics and citations Chair: Dr M.E. de Bruijn (ASC, Leiden) 1. (7) Name: Robert J.W. Tijssen Affiliation: Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands Paper: Measuring international scientific impact of local research in developing countries: an African case study 2. (11) Name: Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu Affiliation: Africa Regional Centre for Information Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Paper: Organising and monitoring research production and performance in Africa: towards an Africa Citation Index. 3. (21) Name: Omoverere Agarin Affiliation: Africa Regional Centre for Information Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Paper: Link Analysis and Web Impact of Nigerian Universities 4. (36) Name: Elizabeth le Roux Affiliation: Director University of South Africa Press (Unisa Press), Pretoria, South Africa Paper: Evaluating the Success of Scholarly Publishing 5. (46) Name: Marlon Domingus Affiliation: Project Manager Open access Leiden, University Library of Leiden, The Netherlands Paper: Research Unleashed? Thursday 7 September - 14:00 - 17:00 Paper session - Publishing models for Africa Chair: Titia van der Werf (ASC, Leiden) 1. (45) Name: Jean Pierre Benoît Idrissa Diouf Affiliation: Conservateur des bibliothèques, CODICE, CODESRIA, Dakar Paper: La publication académique en panne: Quelles perspectives pour l'Afrique ? 2. (1) Name: Cyril Belshaw Affiliation: The AnthroGlobe Journal Paper: From Print to Internet - an Editor's Experience 3. (24) Name: Daisy Ouya Affiliation: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Kenya Paper: Open Access survey of Africa-published journals 4. (33) Name: Garry Rosenberg Affiliation: Director HSRC Press, Cape Town. Paper: Open Access Publishing in an African Academic Press and the Development of an 'Intellectual Commons' of Knowledge on Africa. 5. (12) Name: John Paul Anbu Koilpillai Affiliation: Head of the Periodicals section of the University of Swaziland Libraries Paper: Institutional Repositories: Time for African Universities to Consolidate the Digital Divide 6. (52) Name: Jacob Jaygbay Affiliation: Managing Editor, JEPS Publishing Services, Ltd., Annandale, Virginia, USA Paper: Consortia Repositories and Content Management for African Scholarly publishers 7. (57) Name: Joed Elich Affiliation: Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden Paper: Electronic Publishing - some thoughts and ideas for the future. Friday 8 September - 10:00 - 12:00 Paper Session - The effects of ICTs on scholarly communication Chair: Prof. Dr. A.J. Dietz (Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam) 1. (6) Name: Christine W. Kanyengo Affiliation: University of Zambia Medical Library Paper: Managing Digital Information Resources in Africa: Preserving the Integrity of Scholarship 2. (10) Name: Diston Chiweza Affiliation: University of Malawi Paper: The Potential for Virtual Library Services to Promote Teaching and Research and Reduce the Digital Divide: A Case Study of the University of Malawi 3. (25) Name: Miriam Conteh-Morgan, Affiliation: Associate Professor Linguistics, French, and African Studies Bibliographer The Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus (Ohio). Paper: Weaving Other Anansi Webs: Developing the Electronic Literary Map of Africa 4. (26) Name: George Shibanda Gundu Affiliation: Ag. University College Librarian, Western University College of Science & Technology, Kakamega. Kenya Paper: Enhancing e-journal Use in Kenyan Universities 5. (22) Name: Sofiane Bouhdiba Affiliation: Professeur de Démographie à l'Université de Tunis Paper: L'Université Numérique Tunisienne à l'ère du sommet mondial des sciences de l'information: mythe ou réalité?
Participants The conference is open to participants on an invitational basis and is restricted to a maximum of 45 participants. Contact For information about the programme, please contact: Ms Titia van der Werf Afrika-Studiecentrum LEIDEN Email: vanderwerf@ascleiden.nl Mr Abou Moussa Ndongo CODESRIA DAKAR Tel: +221 8259822; +221 8259823 Fax: +221 8241289 Email: abou.ndongo@codesria.sn For information about the conference logistics, please contact: Email: asc@ascleiden.nl Tel: +31 (0)71 5273372 |