Science Communication Program, Faculty of Life and Physical Science, University of Western Australia, MO11, WA, Perth, Australia.
Health Info Libr J. 2010 Dec;27(4):323-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2010.00909.x. Epub 2010 Oct 1.
Over the last five years several scholarly publishing associations have been launched in Africa - the Forum for African Medical Editors (FAME), the Society of African Journals (SAJE), the Consortium of African Scholarly Publishers (CASP), the Africa Journals Partnership Project and the African Association of Science Editors (AASE). What, if any, has been the impact of these initiatives? This paper reviews the most notable of these associations, FAME, which was established in 2003 with the support of the World Association of Medical Editors, the Council of Science Editors and the Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). FAME is evaluated in relation to two other international scholarly publishing associations - the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) in South America and the Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME). The article also discusses the future of FAME with regards to new developments in open access publishing through African Journals Online.
在过去的五年中，非洲已经成立了几个学术出版协会，包括非洲医学编辑论坛（FAME）、非洲期刊协会（SAJE）、非洲学术出版商联合会（CASP）、非洲期刊伙伴关系项目和非洲科学编辑协会（AASE）。这些举措有什么影响吗？本文回顾了其中最著名的协会之一——FAME，该协会于 2003 年成立，得到了世界医学编辑协会、科学编辑理事会和热带病研究和培训特别规划署（TDR）的支持。FAME 与南美洲的科学电子图书馆在线（SciELO）和东地中海医学编辑协会（EMAME）这两个其他国际学术出版协会进行了评估。本文还讨论了 FAME 在通过非洲在线期刊实现开放获取出版方面的未来发展。
