Articles and presentations

Over the years, I have written various articles, and spoken at a many events. Below is a list of my publications, with links to the full text where possible. See also my pages on Connotea and Furl, where I have listed articles and websites of interest from other authors and organizations.

• Sowden, P. and Smart, P. 2000. Careers in Journal Publishing. ALPSP, London.
• Smart, P. 2002. Editorial debate: Free information? Tropical Medicine & International Health, 7, 639.[DOI:10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00920.x]
• Smart, P. 2003. E-journals: developing country access survey. Learned Publishing 16(2): 143-148. [DOI: 10.1087/095315103321505638]
• Smart, P. 2004. Two-way traffic: Information exchange between the developing and developed world. Serials, 17(2):183-187. [DOI: 10.1629/17183]
• Smart, P., Pearce, C. and Tonukari, J. 2004. E-publishing in developing economies. Canadian Journal of Communication [Online], 29(3) www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=837. 
• Smart, P. 2004. Access to African journals: the African Journals OnLine (AJOL) initiative. In: Proceedings of the CODESRIA workshop on Conference on electronic publishing and dissemination. CODESRIA: Senegal.
• Smart, P. 2004. International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: Facilitating Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries. PLoS Biology 2(11): 1720-1722. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020326]
• Smart, P.2005. Increasing the Visibility of Published Research - African Journals OnLine (AJOL). Africa Today 52(2) 39-53. <full text>
• Smart, P. 2005. African Journals Online (AJOL). Serials Review 31(4), 261-265 [DOI:10.1016/j.serrev.2005.09.007]
• Babini, D. and Smart, P. 2006. Using digital libraries to provide online access to social science journals in Latin America. Learned Publishing 19(2),107-113 [DOI: 10.1087/095315106776387048]
• Smart, P. 2006. Review of "The Principle of Access" by John Willinsky. The Lancet 367:1809-1810 [DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68788-6]
• Smart, P. 2006. Strategies for online publishing [Estrategia de planeamiento de la edición en línea] [ in Spanish]. In: Edición Electronica, Bibliotecas Virtuales y Portales para las Ciencias Sociales en América Latina y el Caribe. Ed. Dominique Babini and Jorge Fraga. CLACSO Libros, Argentina, pp 35-54.
• Ouya, D. and Smart, P. 2006. Open Access survey of Africa-published journals. Paper presented at the CODESRIA-ASC Conference Series 2006: Electronic Publishing and Dissemination: Threats and Opportunities in the Digital Era. Leiden, The Netherlands, September 6 - 8, 2006.
• Hussein, J. and Smart, P. 2007. Journal publishing in Africa. In African Scholarly Publishing Essays. Ed. A. Mlambo. African Books Collective and INASP, Oxford, UK, pp. 172-3.
• Smart, P. 2007 The end of the African Journal? Research Africa. July 2007. Available online
• Smart, P. 2007 (2007) Journals - the wrong model for Africa? Learned Publishing 20, 311-313 [DOI: 10.1087/095315107X225415]
• Smart, P. 2007 (in press) Publishing an article in an online journal. In Scientific Writing for Agricultural Research Scientists (a training reference manual), Ed. A Youdeowei. Netherlands, CTA

Presentations

I have spoken at a variety of conferences, meetings, workshops and informal in-house presentations. Examples include: an informal presentation to librarians on the economics of publishing; "Open Access" at the International Association of Agricultural Librarians (Lexington, USA 2005); "Promoting African Journals" at the UKSG meeting (Edingburgh, 2005), "African Research Publications" at the Council of Science Editors meeting (Tampa, USA, 2006) and "Publishing in the Developing world" at the Society of Scholarly Publishers meeting (Washington, USA, 2006).

Example presentations:

Academic Publishing in Africa (presentation given at Loughborough University, March 2007)

Supporting Journal Publishing (presenation given at the annual meeting of the SSP (Society of Scholarly Publishers), Washington, 2006