The limited presence of researchers working at African universities in the leadership of international research projects is an important issue in African Studies. But research collaborations can also marginalize the contributions of researchers based in Africa.
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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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How do I make my online teaching resources accessible?
Katherine Firth has some great suggestions for making online teaching resources accessible in her Research Voodoo Blog. Her advice includes suggestions for catering to students with visual impairments, hearing impairments, hand impairments, among others.
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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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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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VAD early career researcher database
Free registration and networking for early career researchers from Germany and beyond.
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