South–North publishing partnerships

HUMA-LASPAD Publishing Africa Series  

Speaker: Eleanore Reinders (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, South Africa)

Introduction: I shall discuss the potential of collaboration and partnership programmes to boost African publishing internationally, bridging South-North divides. I’ll discuss some of the ways publishers can responsibly champion African scholarship, supporting its contribution to the world’s knowledge ecosystem as well as to the local knowledge economy from which it emerges. I’ll provide background on the co-publishing journals programme Taylor & Francis operates out of South Africa and discuss some of the opportunities and challenges inherent in the collaborative work that we do locally. While unpacking these themes, I’ll present some recent data on South African and African research output.

About the speaker: Eleanore Reinders is a Portfolio Manager at Taylor & Francis/Routledge, responsible for managing a list of Humanities and Social Science journals based in Africa, often in partnership with African scholarly societies and institutions. Much of the portfolio she manages is co-published with South African publishers, including Unisa Press and NISC. Eleanore has been working in the South African publishing industry for about a decade, the past five years of which have been with Taylor & Francis Africa.