Editor: Munacinga C. Simatele The scholarly book titled, Financial inclusion: Basic theories and empirical evidence from African countries, has been published by AOSIS Scholarly Books. Financial inclusion has been noted as a key driver of poverty alleviation and growth. Yet, most of the scholarly work that exists lacks a comprehensive discussion of how the poor interact with...

Editor: Felix Maringe The scholarly book titled, Higher Education in the melting pot: Emerging discourses of the 4IR and Decolonisation, has been published by AOSIS Scholarly Books. This book is an engaging and timely resource for tertiary level academic researchers, post graduate students and policy makers who are caught up in the intricate matrices of transformation in...

Editor: Mogomme A. Masoga, Allucia L. Shokane & Kelly J. Gross The scholarly book titled, Problematising Local Indigenous Community Research: Afro-Sensed Perspectives, has been published by AOSIS Scholarly Books. The contribution made by this intervention aims to turn turns the controversial concept of indigenisation for a positive change within and outside academic space. It...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...