Open scholarship is a major reform movement within research. This paper seeks to understand how open scholarship might address the challenges faced by research in Africa, through a study based on a participatory collaborative workshop to create a partnership with librarians in Rwanda. The literature review identifies three broad perspectives on the apparent under-performance of Rwandan research: one locating the issue in the unequal scholarly communications system, a second pointing to a country deficit and a third blaming cognitive injustices. The Rwandan librarians see researchers as challenged through the pressures on them to publish, the costs of research, poor infrastructure, lack of skills and limited access to literature. Collectively these challenges constitute a critical barrier to research. These limits fit largely the country deficit perspective. Open scholarship as conceived in the Global North is only a small part of the answer to the challenges faced by Rwandan scholars. To promote equity, notions of open scholarship need to take into account the conditions under which research is conducted in less privileged contexts such as Rwanda.

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图书馆员对卢旺达研究人员挑战的看法和开放奖学金的潜力

开放学术是研究领域的一项重大改革运动。本文旨在通过一项基于参与式合作研讨会的研究，了解开放奖学金如何应对非洲研究面临的挑战，以与卢旺达图书馆员建立伙伴关系。文献综述确定了关于卢旺达研究明显表现不佳的三个广泛观点：一个将问题定位在不平等的学术交流系统中，第二个指向国家赤字，第三个归咎于认知不公正。卢旺达图书馆员认为研究人员面临着出版压力、研究成本、基础设施薄弱、缺乏技能和获取文献的机会有限等挑战。这些挑战共同构成了研究的关键障碍。这些限制在很大程度上符合国家赤字的观点。在全球北部构想的开放奖学金只是卢旺达学者面临的挑战的一小部分答案。为了促进公平，开放奖学金的概念需要考虑在卢旺达等特权较低的环境中进行研究的条件。