Scholarly Communication in Asia & Africa

At the 2018 World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, the Serials and Other Continuing Resources group (SOCRS) held an open program on scholarly communication. It featured papers from across Asia and Africa, whose main takeaway was the steady march of Open Access (OA) within the world of scholarly communication.  Yet, OA does not end completely the challenges of rights management, digital preservation and funding. Besides challenges, exciting new uses of bibliometrics were also highlighted. Read the papers.