[eccr] Re-launch of African Journals OnLine (AJOL)

>Re-launch of African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
>http://www.ajol.info
>Suivi d'une traduction française
>Bienvenue sur le site d'AJOL (African Journals OnLine), l'outil d'accès
>aux publications africaines consacrées à la recherche
>http://www.ajol.info/index.php?T=fr&jid=1&OJSSID=66d8c7dd3e3af9c7a66277d5381d5336
>
>The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched  AJOL
>in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African
>journals covering most subject areas. It is now being re-launched on
>its own website that continues to provide free access to tables of 
>contents and
>abstracts for all titles - but also provides a number of additional
>facilities. AJOL offers a document delivery service, and full (improved)
>searching and browsing facilities, as well as a new Email alert
>function.
>The service remains free to both users and participating journals (with
>charges only for document delivery requests from outside developing
>countries).
>
>Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed
>articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as
>review papers. Journals included cover Agricultural sciences and
>resource
>management; Arts, culture, language and literature; Health; Science and
>technology; and Social sciences. An evaluation of the AJOL service
>undertaken at the end of 2002 showed that participating journals benefit
>from the international visibility, with more international submissions
>and
>citations, and that users value access to African research that they
>have
>been unable to locate from other sources. Use of the service has more
>than
>doubled in the past few years (almost 4000 people registered during
>2003)
>and the demand for document delivery tripled (reaching over 650 articles
>during 2003). The evaluation highlighted a need to update the website,
>to
>make it easier to use with an emphasis on improved searching and
>retrieval
>of articles.
>
>In response to the evaluation, the new website now offers a greatly
>improved
>and more sophisticated search system and email alerting to identify new
>issues. Journals can also manage their own content online, giving them
>more
>control over their own work. We look forward to more users, an increase
>in
>demand for document delivery and increased worldwide visibility for
>African
>published research.
>
>Please visit the new site - http://www.ajol.info - and sign up for email
>alerts to any journals of interest.
>
>We also welcome new journals onto the service - please contact INASP for
>further information: (ajol /at/ inasp.info) or visit our website:
>http://www.inasp.info
>
>[HIF-net at WHO profile: Sioux Cumming is AJOL Coordinator (African
>Journals OnLine) at INASP, UK. <www.inasp.info> <(scumming /at/ inasp.info)>]
>
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