Birchall, Jenny and Batchelor, Simon and Hayes, Ceri | 2012
- Author(s): Birchall, Jenny and Batchelor, Simon and Hayes, Ceri
- Publisher: Institute of development studies (IDS)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: information services, gender, women
This paper is prompted by a gender review of Knowledge Services (KS) and the Mobilising Knowledge for Development (MK4D) programme at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), United Kingdom. It is the first step in a broader gender mainstreaming process.
Bjِrk, Bo-Christer | 2011
- Author(s): Bjِrk, Bo-Christer
- Publisher: Centre for global eHealth innovation]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: electronic publishing, scholarly publishing, scientific literature
The study assessed how open access journals have experimented with innovations concerning ways of organizing the peer review, the format of journals and articles, new interactive and media formats, and novel publishing revenue models.
Bowen, Hannah | 2010
- Author(s): Bowen, Hannah
- Publisher: AudienceScapes
- Pages: --
- Keywords: communication process, information, development research, internet, mobile telecommunication services, use studies, ghana
This report seeks to give development practitioners a concise but indepth description of the development information environment in Ghana. It offers insight into how information is gathered, shared and used at the grassroots level.
Britz, Johannes J. and Lor, Peter Johan and Bothma, Theodorus Jan Daniël | 2007
- Author(s): Britz, Johannes J. and Lor, Peter Johan and Bothma, Theodorus Jan Daniël
- Publisher: University of Pretoria]
- Pages: 103--108]
- Keywords: information science, library education, management, africa, south africa
This article deals with a proposed initiative to train library managers on the African continent. It is argued that such an education initiative will contribute to the socio-economic development of Africa.
Burnett, Peter | 2011
- Author(s): Burnett, Peter
- Publisher: International federation of library associations and institutions] (IFLA)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: information sources, co-operation between organizations, international co-operation, scientific literature, libraries, developing countries
The author discusses 2 activities of INASP (Intl Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications): Providing access to peer reviewed international literature via discounted country wide licensing; Support for the creation and strengthening of library consortia in Africa and Central America.