Here are 15 reasons for working with the Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems (OJS). The best reason: we can help you! The Specialised Information Service for African Studies offers an OJS Hosting Service to the African Studies community based in Germany.
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Gender Balance Assessment Tool
Would you like to find out how gender balanced your bibliography and / or syllabus is ? The Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT) helps to automatically estimate of what percentage of the authors on a syllabus are women.
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Checklist for Starting a New Journal
It is not easy to start a sustainable journal. The competition among academic journals is great - and new ones are constantly being born. It’s a lot of work.
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Power dynamics of global knowledge production: citations
Work by Africa-based scholars is also cited less than work by other academics.
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Power dynamics of global knowledge production: Publishing
The positioning of academic journals is not neutral: their engagement with the Global South is characterised by several levels of uneven participation, among them thematic scope, acceptance rates and perceived impact.
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Quiz about data management
Find out which aspects research data management will be important in your project with just 7 questions and get specific recommendations for your project (in German).
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How can I share it
The Can I Share It look-up tool provides academic researchers with an easy way to check where a journal article can be shared in line with the paper’s access and usage rights.
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Academic networking sites or open access repositories?
"What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu and an open access repository?"
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Using the Digital Object Identifier System for datasets
Would you like to make your research data accessible online? Do you want your data to be archived and secured in the long term and have it remain visible and citable?
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Writing Tools
Editing and typesetting large (long) documents can quickly become unwieldy using a simple word processor like MS Word. This is where LaTeX, a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting becomes useful.
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