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Growing research by going open?Possibilities and problems for strengthening capacity in African universities
Jonathan Harle, Programmes Manager (Research Capacity)
Open Access Africa 2012
University of Cape Town, 4-5 November
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The ACU
The first international inter-university network in the world - 1913
538 members. We launch our centenary celebrations this week in Jamaica.
114 in Africa, 271 in Asia, 4 in the Caribbean. Membership has titled ‘South’ since 1967
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long-term, complexinvolves shifts in power
influenced by cultural values and political processes
context-specific, dynamic
capacity to reproduce capacity
knowledge and skills
beyond a single grant or project
beyond a technical and value-neutral transfer of
skills
provokes changes in systems and the wider environment
A country’s ability to produce, debate and use research knowledge and products relevant to their needs, such as new technologies (SIDA)
“”
enhancing the abilities of individuals, organisations and systems to undertake and disseminate high quality research efficiently and effectively (DFID)
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a process
building trust
behaviours and attitudes
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Cons
Enabling environmentThe rules of the game, incentives, political context, national, regional &
international policy
OrganisationalCapacity of departments and units within universities & research institutes – to fund and sustain themselves, to do research, to train and develop, to engage
with wider society
IndividualDeveloping individual researchers & professional staff – training, scholarships,
fellowships, mentoring – to do and manage research, to publish, to communicate, to engage, to influence
consortia & networks
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Kaplan 1999 - Community Development Resource Association, South Africa (from Datta, Shaxson, Pellini 2012 ‘Capacity, complexity and consulting: Lessons from managing capacity development projects’ ODI http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/7601.pdf)
VisionStrategy
Culture
Structure
Skills
Material resources
Context & conceptual framework
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Different organisations, different mandates, different emphases
Can’t just be an add on – must be explicit and prioritised
Learning by doing
Research environments
Many initiatives
Changing attitudes, behaviours, approachesNo single model,
mechanism or approach
not purely technical or rational, and definitely not linear
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Obligatory Steve Song map
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This is seriously hindering their work
c. 40 kb/s
(Alan Jackson, Aptivate)
But what gets to the user?
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Download speedsDecember 2011, journal article from UK-based publisher: 55 seconds at the University of Nairobi
2-4 minutes at two campuses of the University of Malawi in Lilongwe
…but even with several attempts a user in Uganda (outside of Kampala) was unable to download the article at all.
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The academic core
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Doctoral deficits
Ghana
Moz
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Ugand
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U Dar
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Kenya
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Kenya
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0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
28%
15%12%
47%50%
71%
32%
20% 19%
39%
21%
Doctorates amongst academic staff
Figures from Tettey (2010) and Cloete et al (2011)
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PhD production
U Ghana U Dar es Salaam
U Nairobi Makerere Botswana
-20.0%
-10.0%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
Doctoral growth 2001-2007
U Ghana U Dar es Salaam
U Nairobi Makerere Botswana0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
20 20
32
23
4
Number of PhDs produced 2007
Figures from Cloete et al (2011)
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Full-text journals & information resources:
PERii: 23,000 AGORA: 1,900OARE: 2,990
HINARI: 8,000
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73%
27%
323 journals
117 journals
2011: average availability of the top 440 ISI ranked journals (top 20 journals, 22 subjects) in 11 universities – Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Availability has improved significantly...
appreciate the ISI isn’t a good measure of ‘top’ titles…
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0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
90.0%
AAverage availability across all subjects
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72%
28%
Actually available = 270 titles
Malawi 71% 128 of 180
Nairobi 69% 73 of 106
Rwanda 83% 53 of 64
Dar 70% 16 of 23
‘Unavailable titles’ actually available
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Diverging or converging?
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• Fewer subscriptions– for more content• More straightforward to manage - fewer paywalls, IP
ranges and passwords• Greater visibility of their own research – institutional &
disciplinary repositories• Showing what universities do & contributions to
development• Help to build case for investment • New ways of tracking, measuring and understanding
reach & impact – altmetrics • CC-BY = re-use = potential to improve teaching
materials
For universities Possibilities…
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• University leaders don’t yet fully appreciate what open means
• Wary of digital and online publishing – belief that not high quality, that ‘free’ material is inferior
• Open / online articles not accepted in promotions – policy change, confidence building
• Online infrastructure – need to really invest in ICT facilities, bandwidth, local networks, manage bandwidth
For universities Challenges…
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• Much more available – drawing on the latest research to design, undertake & publish own work
• Less cut off from international peers – greater potential for collaboration
• Quality research with up to date references more likely to get through peer review
• Able to update teaching materials
As readers
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Possibilities…
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• In a mixed world, some is open, some isn’t. Confusion
• Searching, discovering, navigating – still a huge challenge whether open or not
• Confidence in the system – judging quality, understanding peer review
As readers
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Challenges…
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As authors
• Currently many struggle to publish• Many reasons, but partly unfamiliarity
with journals – OA would address this• More opportunity to be published• Greater visibility for their work – within
and outside Africa• In journals & in repositories
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Possibilities…
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As authors
• What’s a reputable journal? Understanding quality in an OA world. Need support here.
• Online? Free? Open access? International? Local? Reviewed?
• People will ‘take’ their work – the internet’s not a safe place. Especially with data.
• Can’t afford to publish – many authors think it costs to publish as it is
• ‘Online journals’ don’t count for promotion• What about African journals?
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Challenges…
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Tanzania 2007 71,000 downloads from PERiiAround 50,000 students and 2,100 academics
So that’s just over 1 download per student/academic, per year
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University of Nairobi, 2009 20 students shared access to each
computerAt Chancellor College, University of
Malawi it was 30
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negative attitudes towards research“ ”
unwelcoming environment
“”intellectual
meltdown“ ”intellectually
lost“ ”
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stay connected – with peers, nationally, regionally, internationally
get published
define a research agenda
seed funding to get started
learn how to supervise
supportive institutional context
mentoring and support from experienced researchers
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Most of our social scientists are not institution based... they are there for hire
“
”
Quoted in Danny Wight’s article of the same title, Social Science & Medicine, 2008; 66:110-6.
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800 academics from 12 southern African countries
62% engaged in consultancy work
(CREST survey)
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Consultants presume that research is all about finding answers to problems defined by a client. They think of research as finding answers, not as formulating a problem
“
”Mahmoud Mamdani, The Importance of Research in a University’, keynote at Makerere University Research
Conference, 9 April 2011
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The lack of knowledge production is not a simple lack of capacity and resources, but a complex set of capacities and contradictory rewards within a resource-scarce situation
“
”Cloete et al, 2011, Universities and Economic
Development in Africa