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.
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.
Work by Africa-based scholars is also cited less than work by other academics.
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.
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.