African Minds

African Minds is a nonprofit open access scholarly book publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Trustee and founder of African Minds, Dr Francois van Schalkwyk, is reporting as saying that academic publishing in developing markets cannot consistently be profitable, and consequently, nonprofit organizations like African Minds should be available to provide new publishing models to promote research in the scientific periphery.

[3] African Minds follows a hybrid open access publishing model: the costs of some titles attract book processing charges (equivalent to gold open access), while the costs of other titles are fully covered by African Minds (equivalent to diamond open access).

The focus of the model is on the widest possible dissemination of publications rather than on book sales.

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