{"id":172,"date":"2009-07-10T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-07-13T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T20:30:56","slug":"establishing-a-new-open-access-journal-in-africa-the-case-study-of-the-african-journal-of-primary-health-care-family-medicine-phcfm-the-session-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/2009\/07\/10\/establishing-a-new-open-access-journal-in-africa-the-case-study-of-the-african-journal-of-primary-health-care-family-medicine-phcfm-the-session-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing a New Open Access Journal in Africa: The Case Study of the African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine (PHCFM): The Session Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presenter: <\/strong>Pierre de Villiers<\/a><\/p>\n

July 10th, 2009 at 2:00 p.m<\/p>\n

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Background info<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a new discipline to Africa, Family Medicine <\/strong>needed a forum to communicate scholarly work throughout Africa.\u00a0 Ten countries in the neighbouring area<\/a> of the Sub-Sahara joined together and through academic support and affiliation with well known academic associations started a new journal, The African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine (PHCFM<\/a>).\u00a0 Their mandate was to ensure 20-30 publications were accepted and published per year.\u00a0 It delves into family medicine for the primary health care giver using African context.\u00a0 They use Open Journal Systems<\/a>, and C<\/a>reative Commons<\/a> licence to ensure accessibility over the ten participating countries.\u00a0 They have multiple citations in Google scholar<\/a>.\u00a0 The editor-in-chief is Professor Gboyega A Ogunbanjo<\/a> from the University of Limpopo<\/a>, South Africa.\u00a0 He is a specialist family physician.<\/p>\n

The journal is mainly supported by the Flemish Inter-university Council (VLIR<\/a>), a department for University Cooperation for Development, through the project VLIR-ZEIN 2006 PR320, but also has local support from Africa as well.<\/p>\n

View Participating Partners in the new African journal, PHCFM<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n

Session Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. de Villiers starts this session describing why he started this new journal.\u00a0 He has been the editor of the South African Academy of Family Practice\/Primary Care journal (SAAFP<\/a>) for the past ten years (the journal has fifty years of experience).\u00a0 Since that time, South Africa (SA) has made family practice into a specialty and now there is a great emphasis on primary health, care not only in SA but all over Africa.<\/p>\n

He recognized many problems in communicating the knowledge of Family Practice in Africa:<\/p>\n