Iryna Kuchma & Kondwani Wella report on the Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact which took place at Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi in Lilongwe, on 29 and 30 October 2009, organised by the Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO), the Malawi Research and
Education Network (MAREN), the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) and eIFL.net. These notes are published in the Issue No 10 (2009/2010) of The African Journal of Information and Communication. 

Guest Editors on Issue 10 - Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge:

Lucienne Abrahams, LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and

Eve Gray, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

This thematic edition of the African Journal of Information and Communication - Scholarly Communication and Opening Access to Knowledge - addresses an aspect of ‘information society’ discourse that has taken shape in the world of universities, research, publishing and creative works.

Other articles from this issue:

Access to Africa’s knowledge: Publishing development research and measuring value - Eve Gray
 

Research productivity-visibility-accessibility and scholarly communication in Southern African universities - Lucienne Abrahams, Mark Burke & Johann Mouton
 

Copyright and education in Africa: Lessons on African copyright and access to knowledge - Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya & Achal Prabhala
 

Dazzling technologies’: Addressing the digital divide in the Southern African universities- Piyushi Kotecha
 

Institutional Review: Open Access and Open knowledge production processes: Lessons from CODESRIA- Francis Nyamnjoh
 

Legislative Review: Review of IPR Act and regulations: Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, No 51 of 2008, Republic of South Africa- Pria Chetty
 

Book Reviews Compilation- Open Access books on Open scholarly communications - Andrew Rens, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Kevin Williams & Eve Gray