Editing Telecommunications in Senegal (section)

====Open access====
[[Open access]] to scholarly communication in Senegal is developing.<ref>{{citation |title=Les revues sénégalaises en ligne: Quelques expériences concrètes |author=Diéyi Diouf |language=fr |url=http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article588 |publisher=[[Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa]] |year=2008}} {{free access}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3/tag/oa.senegal |title=(Senegal) |work=[[Open Access Tracking Project]] |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University |editor=Peter Suber |editor-link=Peter Suber |access-date=21 September 2017}}</ref> The Consortium des Bibliothèques de l'Enseignement Supérieur du Sénégal (academic library consortium) and the Association Sénégalaise des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes (professional society) have signed the [[Budapest Open Access Initiative]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/list_signatures |title=Signatures |work=Budapest Open Access Initiative |access-date=21 September 2017}}</ref>

The [[French Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] funded in 2004–2007 the creation of scholarly publishing platforms in Africa ("Système d’information scientifique et technique"),<ref>{{cite book |title=SIST: Pour la science en Afrique |language=en, fr |url=https://agritrop.cirad.fr/542496/2/SIST-2%20Dépliant2R.pdf |via=[[Agritrop]] |publisher=Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes |year=2007 |isbn=978-2-87614-641-9}} {{open access}}</ref> which led to the 2006 launch of SIST Sénégal.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208022718/http://www.sist-sciencesdev.net/article.php3?id_article=58&lang=fr |url=http://www.sist-sciencesdev.net:80/article.php3?id_article=58&lang=fr |language=fr |work=Sist-sciencesdev.net |title=SIST Sénégal est en ligne |archive-date=8 December 2007 |url-status=dead |quote=Sist.sn  }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Florence Piron |display-authors=etal |title=Le libre accès vu d'Afrique francophone subsaharienne |trans-title=Open access seen from francophone Sub-Saharan Africa |journal=Revue française des sciences de l'information et de la communication |issn=2263-0856 |number=11 |url=http://rfsic.revues.org/3292 |language=fr |via=[[Revues.org]] |year=2017}} {{open access}}</ref> According to [[UNESCO]], the Bibliothèque SIST Sénégal is one of two open access repositories in Senegal, the other being Biens Culturels Africains at the [[Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=UNESCO |location=Paris |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/africa/senegal/ |work=Global Open Access Portal |title=Senegal |access-date=22 September 2017}}</ref>