The charter has been approved by the Association of African Universities,14 the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA),15 the African Academy of Sciences,16 the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA),17 the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA),18 the Association of West African Universities (AWAU),19 the International Network for Higher Educa. [...] Arianna Becerril García of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico and Executive Director, Redalyc (Network of Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal), presented an infographic on the inequities of the science system, particularly in publishing:25 Figure 3: where is the Global South in the scientific enterprise? She pointed to lessons from Latin America i. [...] Another option is to look for African journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).55 South African journals represent the bulk of those published in Africa (100 journals as opposed to 29 for the rest of Africa).56 The figure below gives data on the number of journals included in DOAJ; the number of languages they are in; the countries represented; the number of journals that do not ch. [...] The East African Journal of Science, Technology and Innovation (EAJSTI),58 for example, represents a cooperative effort by the six member states of the East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda),59 the Inter-University Council for East Africa,60 and the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology of Tanzania.61 The journal is funded by the Afr. [...] In South Africa, for example, both the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town will pay a portion of the author’s fee if the open access journal is on Department of Higher Education and Training’s list of accredited journals.68 Some subscription-based journals permit authors to publish their articles in an open access format for a special fee.
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