Dear African Scholar

The Scholarly Publishing Programme, Academy of Science of South Africa, would like to invite you to participate in a survey that will contribute to a research project titled “Open access and APC costs: A comparative study on scholarly publishing practices in Africa”.

The study seeks to understand the perceptions and publishing practices of scholars in Africa. It focuses on open access and Article Processing Charges (APCs). APCs are fees paid by authors or their institutions to publishers for making their journal articles available open access.

The study is being conducted by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) along with partner organisations, including other science academies in Africa.

The survey is anonymous, and the data collected will be analysed and reported in aggregate form only. Copies of all publications based on the survey data will be made available to all survey respondents. Kindly indicate at the end of the survey should you wish to receive further communication as these publications become available.

If you would like an offline version of the survey (as a PDF file), or have any questions related to the survey, please email ina@assaf.org.za

The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Please see the links to the survey below: