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Author Archives: Verity Warne
Supporting trust in Southern journals: the story behind Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS)
INASP and African Journals Online have launched the Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS), a unique new framework for providing accreditation and support for journals in the Global South. The JPPS provides detailed and internationally accepted assessment criteria for the quality of publishing practices and policies of Southern journals.
In this interview, Susan Murray, Executive Director of African Journals Online (AJOL), and Sioux Cumming, Programme Manager, Journals Online, share the origins and potential of JPPS. Continue reading
Posted in General, Interviews, JOLs
Tagged Academic publishing, Journals, Journals Online, JPPS, Research
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Mind the gap: Creating agents of change to address gender inequity in research
Last month we put INASP’s Gender Toolkit into action by supporting Ghana’s foremost national science and technology institute, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), to launch a gender mainstreaming process – starting with a gender sensitization workshop for 30 women researchers drawn from CSIR head office and various institutes under CSIR. Continue reading
Posted in Gender, General
Tagged Gender, Gender gap, gender gaps, Ghana, Women, Women researcher
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