African Journals Online
African Journals Online
Keywords: Journal publishing, Electronic publishing, Africa, Internet
African Journals Online (AJOL), which began in May 1998 as a pilot project managed by INASP, was evaluated at the end of 1999 and it was recommended that AJOL be continued and expanded to include more journals in more subject areas,as well as abstracts of articles. The evaluation also concluded that the pilot project had lasted too short a time for any useful conclusions to have been reached concerning its impact on journal use or journal sustainability.
At its re-launch in August 2000, AJOL featured:
up to 50 African-published journals (for the time being in English and excluding journals published in South Africa) in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences;
TOCs and abstracts (where the latter are available), with back files maintained for up to five years;
a keyword search service;
a photocopy document delivery service for all titles;
a link to full-text of an article/journal (if available on the Web).
AJOL 2000 aims to promote the awareness and use of African-published journals and strengthen the African academic publishing sector. All proceeds from AJOL are remitted to the journals concerned. Over the next three years, INASP will also investigate the possibility of the programme being maintained in and from Africa. The impact of using the Internet to promote African-published journals will be monitored and evaluated.
Source: INASP Web site
