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.
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 Report in 2009.
