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.
This chapter is a reflexive exercise, discussing the work of an international partnership, Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA), that aimed to reshape habits of teaching and learning in four institutions of higher education.
This book focuses on digital approaches to capacity development, reflecting the greater interest in how digital tools and platforms can be used for capacity development in the ‘Global South’.
In this newsletter we celebrate the community’s achievements across the year, share updates and information about the work of AuthorAID – including how you can continue to support us – and tell you about plans and activities for next year.
Developed by INASP and Purpose & Ideas, the Context Matters Framework is a participatory tool to help detect and understand the best entry points to improve the use of knowledge in a public agency.
This concept note outlines INASP's thinking on why we need strong and equitable national knowledge ecosystems, where diverse voices are recognized and those who commission, produce, communicate and use research and knowledge can work effectively together.
The Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) framework provides detailed assessment criteria for the quality of publishing practices of Southern journals and is initially being used to assess the journals hosted on JOL platforms.
Research4Life and INASP present “Information in Action: Celebrating Research Advocacy Champions” a booklet that showcases the best stories from the 2016 Research4Life/INASP Advocacy Competition.
This seminar, held on 28 June 2017, provided an opportunity to reflect on what’s been learnt about successful approaches to capacity development, working in partnerships with Southern institutions, academics and policymakers.
This is the third of the Research and Education Case Studies series. The eight case studies in this volume examine various aspects of M&E, as applied to the provision and use of journals, and more specifically journals in electronic format, in countries of Africa and Asia.
This is the second in the Research and Education Case Studies series to be published and tells the story of the University of Zimbabwe Library which has progressed in building a digital library despite the constraints experienced during a period of national economic decline.
This publication, commissioned from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, documents developing a centralised national digital library to provide affordable access to scientific and technical research information.
