Africa: Here's One Way to Recover and Protect Africa's 'Lost Science' - allAfrica.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-30

Summary:

It's been 20 years since Wayt Gibbs introduced the phrase "lost science" to the world. Writing in Scientific American, Gibbs suggested that science and research from the developing world was being lost because it wasn't shared on global platforms. He wrote: Many researchers in the developing world feel trapped in a vicious circle of neglect and - some say - prejudice by publishing barriers (and structural obstacles) they claim doom good science to oblivion. Not much has changed. In 2010 the Africa Institute's Solani Ngobeni warned that library budget cuts and the rising costs of subscribing to scholarly e-resources meant research from the developing world remains largely "lost". This science is invisible to the reading public. This invisibility has consequences. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, international research about the virus was not immediately available to the countries affected, which may have slowed treatment responses.

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Date tagged:

10/30/2015, 09:42

Date published:

10/30/2015, 05:42