Global research, vital for economic and social progress, remains largely inaccessible due to costly paywalls and inequitable publishing models. South Africa’s 2025 G20 leadership presents an opportunity to champion transformative, inclusive reforms in research publishing.
In 2020 INASP helped Research4Life to learn more about our users' needs and challenges by carrying out an extensive survey and evaluation of users across multiple countries and institution types.
Between November and December 2017, the INASP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team conducted an evaluation of the “AuthorAID embedding” project
This article explores the programme that was developed in 2013 by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colombo and INASP's AuthorAID programme to develop scientific research-writing skills for academic staff and postgraduate students.
This report provides a short analysis of nine countries (Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania), at a national level, to assess their academic impact in the world.
This case study looks at one of the ways the open access movement influences information sharing and exchange, focusing on the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal System (OJS).
This report presents the findings of a collaborative bibliometrics study conducted by the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education, the National Center for Scientific Research and INASP.
This report documents findings from consultation visits undertaken during February 2009 as part of the Sida supported project “Strengthening access to and production within the Nicaraguan research and university system”.
This report evaluates the success of the African Journals Online Publishing Programme (AJOPP) which was intended to support 11 African journals in putting their full text content online using a variety of hosts.
Issues and potential solutions to internet bandwidth and online access problems in university environments, commissioned in response to concerns of partner organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
