Quest – Science for South Africa
Subscribe to Quest Read Quest Search Quest Content Quest – Science for South Africa is a full-colour, quarterly popular science magazine strategically designed to foster a scientifically literate society by […]
SciELO SA
Access SciELO SA The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) South Africa (SA) is a national fulltext open access platform (global south index) that forms part of the global SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Network, […]
Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA)
The Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA) – governed by the CSPiSA Terms of Reference (2023) – adopts a strategic and comprehensive approach to scholarly publishing in all its forms. It addresses […]
South African Journal of Science (SAJS)
The South African Journal of Science – established in 1903 – is now an electronic-only, open-access, multidisciplinary journal published bimonthly by the Academy of Science of South Africa. Its objective […]
ASSAf Research Repository
The ASSAf Research Repository is an institutional platform, providing open access to all research products by ASSAf, thereby increasing its usage, visibility and impact. At the same time it serves […]
International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development
The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development 2022/23 celebrates the importance of the basic sciences for advances in medicine, industry, agriculture, water resources, energy planning, environment, communications and culture, […]
National Scholarly Book Publishers’ Forum (NSBPF)
The NSBPF focuses on scholarly book publishing in South Africa and was inaugurated in 2011.
National Scholarly Editors’ Forum (NSEF)
Improving and protecting South African research publishing is at the core of a consensus study released by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). Addressing new possibilities and challenges which have arisen and were exacerbated with the advent of open science, the study, entitled Twelve Years Later: Second ASSAf Report on Research Publishing in and from South Africa (2018) highlights the main issues and unresolved problems still remaining in the system despite progress.
Journals Peer Review
The Scholarly Publishing Unit carries out peer review and associated quality audits of all South African research journals in 5-year cycles. This is done in relation to groups of titles sharing a particular broad disciplinary focus in order to make recommendations for improved functioning of each journal in the national and international system.
Khulisa Journals
Khulisa Journals is a federated journal management platform, using the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Open Journal Systems (OJS) open source software. “Khulisa” is a word in the Nguni languages that are indigenous to southern and eastern Africa. It means “to grow or foster the development of a person or community”. This is exactly what we would like to achieve through this platform, namely to grow the peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals in South Africa through the Khulisa Journals community.