Publishing Matrix

The Publishing Matrix project, funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute, is providing, in the form of a wiki, an overview of the workings of the South African publishing industry - formal and informal - to allow researchers, open access activists and funders to better understand the context in which they are operating.

The problem that this project addresses is that if a number of projects are to achieve their goal of providing wider access to learning materials in Africa, they need to be backed by an understanding of how publication and knowledge dissemination works, where there are blockages and weaknesses in the provision of learning materials and other knowledge resources, and where traditional systems are working well.

View the Publishing Matrix wiki:
http://sapublishing.cet.uct.ac.za