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Call for Book Proposals

Division AOSIS Scholarly Books Introduction AOSIS is calling upon prospective authors and editors to submit their book proposals for consideration at AOSIS Scholarly Books. Authors or editors submitting under this call should plan to have their full manuscript ready by the end of November 2019. Submission Deadline: 31 June 2019 As an open access publisher, AOSIS aims to present...
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AOSIS Honours Landmark Study of Water Governance & Security

AOSIS Publishing celebrated a successful 2018 at its Laureatus Awards 2019 on 10 April. The event, held at North-West University’s Potchefstroom campus, devoted its second session to a symposium centred around Prof. Johann W.N. Tempelhoff’s ground-breaking book South Africa’s water governance hydraulic mission (1912-2008) in a WEF nexus context. Like all AOSIS titles, the book is...
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AOSIS Publishing celebrated a hugely successful 2018 at its Laureatus Awards 2019 on 10 April

The event, held at North-West University’s main campus, devoted its first session to recognizing the best and most impactful scholarship published by AOSIS, Southern Africa’s leading publisher of open-access, peer reviewed literature. The session introduced new titles published by AOSIS Scholarly Books and honoured achievements in journal indexing and author citation. The Journal of...
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Invitation to attend AOSIS MD’s public lecture on scholarly books at North-West University on 14 May 2018

Prof. Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the North-West University (NWU), cordially invites you to attend a public lecture by Dr Pierre de Villiers, Managing Director of AOSIS to share his views on the new frontier of scholarly books as open access and digital publishing presents new possibilities for academic institutions and researchers to...
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AOSIS Book Launch 2017

On the 29th of November 2017 AOSIS celebrated with its book editors and authors the 20 books published over 2016 and 2017 at the University of Pretoria Merensky II Library. The event was presented in two separate sessions. In the first session AOSIS announced the newly published books of 2016 and 2017, and handed out honorary gifts to the authors and editors. In the second session...
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Open in order to …. empower Africa’s people through access to knowledge

This year’s theme for the 10th International Open Access Week, celebrated on 23-29 October 2017, is “Open in order to…”. This is a prompt to talk about what openness enables and the actions needed to realise its benefits. AOSIS has been publishing open access scholarly journals since 2008, and we currently publish 38 scholarly journals. Every year we welcome new journals to our...
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AOSIS MD presents keynote speech on publication and peer review of scholarly books in South Africa at 2017 Society for Medicinal Plants and Economic Development conference

On August 28th, 2017 Dr PJT de Villiers, MD of AOSIS, was the keynote speaker at the 2nd International Conference of the Society for Medicinal Plants and Economic Development (SOMPED). He addressed delegates on the publication and peer review of scholarly books in South Africa, saying that recognition of the importance of scholarly books has increased since the ASSAf Scholarly Books...
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AOSIS Publishing partners with CrossMark® and ORCID for publishing excellence

← Back to AOSIS News Centre In pursuit of the highest standards of publishing excellence, AOSIS Publishing has started using CrossMark® and ORCID in its online publications. CrossMark® helps readers and researchers to access the most up-to-date versions of published research. As careful as authors, reviewers and publishers are in the publication process, article corrections, updates,...
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AOSIS becomes a member of publication ethics organisation COPE

← Back to AOSIS News Centre AOSIS is proud to become a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), confirming its commitment to the highest standards of publication ethics. Being a member of COPE signifies that all our journals uphold the highest ethical standards and that we follow COPE’s Code of Conduct and will take appropriate action in cases of possible misconduct. About...
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AOSIS publishes its first open access scholarly book on OAPEN

← Back to AOSIS News Centre AOSIS Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of its first open access scholarly book, JM Vorster’s Christelike etiek in ‘n sekulariserende samelewing, that is listed on OAPEN. Professor Vorster’s research is an important contribution to Christian ethics both in South Africa and globally. It will be especially useful to specialists in systematic...
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