The document discusses INASP's efforts to improve the visibility and accessibility of research from the Global South, highlighting initiatives like supporting academic journals and online research writing courses. It emphasizes the importance of capacity development, partnership, and addressing gender challenges in research publishing. The workshop took place on September 15-16, 2016, as part of a broader conversation on enhancing research at the heart of development.

1. INASP – Improving the
visibility and accessibility of
southern research
Ruth Bottomley
Eldis 20th Anniversary Workshop
15th – 16th September 2016

2. • Research at the heart of development
• Supporting the production sharing and use
of developing country research
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4. Addressing global challenges
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5. Redressing the balance
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7. Southern Academic Journals
• http://www.sljol.info/
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8. Improving quality
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1) Inactive title
2) New title
3) – meeting basic inclusion requirements for at
least two years
4) – compliant with the Journal Online publishing
practice-quality criteria
5) – consistently excellent in technical and editorial
publishing best practices

9. Improving comms
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10. Helping researchers publish
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11. Research writing embedding
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12. Online research writing course 2016
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13. Embedding online research writing
courses
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14. Addressing gender challenges
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15. Supporting access to publishing
initiatives
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16. What have we learned?
• Capacity development
• Convening
• Influencing
• Partnership
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17. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
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