The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is proud to announce the release of the Report on Peer Review of Scholarly Journals in Other Disciplines. The focus of the report is on local journals in the following disciplines: Geography and Population, gender, health, humanities, law, other fields, and social science.
This report is the 14th in a series of reports resulting from an ambitious programme of peer reviewing, in broad discipline groups, of all accredited scholarly journals published in South Africa. The reviews had their origins in a report on the Strategic Approach to Research Publishing, published by ASSAf, in 2006.
The report highlighted the need for a system of quality assurance for South African journals accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). The ASSAf project of systematically subjecting locally published journals to independent peer review is intended to improve their quality, visibility and impact.
This consensus report should be of value to the various stakeholders in the disciplines concerned, as well as policymakers, publishers, editors, prospective authors (new and established) and peer reviewers within the scholarly publishing community.
Feedback and comments
Mrs Susan Veldsman: Director of the Scholarly Publishing Programme E-mail: susan@assaf.org.za
Tel: +27 12 349 6611
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