Librarians’ Perceptions of the Challenges for Researchers in Rwanda and the Potential of Open Scholarship

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Librarians’ Perceptions of the Challenges for Researchers in Rwanda and the Potential of Open Scholarship
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Cox, Andrew; Abbott, Pamela
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Libri, 71, 2021, 2, S. 93-107
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Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Medientyp
E-Article
Datenquelle
Walter de Gruyter GmbH (CrossRef)
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Open scholarship is a major reform movement within research. This paper seeks to understand how open scholarship might address the challenges faced by research in Africa, through a study based on a participatory collaborative workshop to create a partnership with librarians in Rwanda. The literature review identifies three broad perspectives on the apparent under-performance of Rwandan research: one locating the issue in the unequal scholarly communications system, a second pointing to a country deficit and a third blaming cognitive injustices. The Rwandan librarians see researchers as challenged through the pressures on them to publish, the costs of research, poor infrastructure, lack of skills and limited access to literature. Collectively these challenges constitute a critical barrier to research. These limits fit largely the country deficit perspective. Open scholarship as conceived in the Global North is only a small part of the answer to the challenges faced by Rwandan scholars. To promote equity, notions of open scholarship need to take into account the conditions under which research is conducted in less privileged contexts such as Rwanda.</jats:p>
Umfang
93-107
Sprache
Englisch
ISSN
1865-8423
0024-2667
DOI
10.1515/libri-2020-0036