Research Africa is a multi-media publishing house located in Cape Town South Africa, serving the African and ‘Africanist’ science and development communities. The premium service provides a paper publication, Research Africa, and the web-based Research-Africa.net information services.

• Independent, global coverage of science, research and development news, opinion and commentary on current policy issues affecting African science and research.
• The world’s most comprehensive database covering sponsors of research, their research programmes and calls for applications for funding for research. The funding opportunities are edited and presented with eligibility criteria and details of the funders’ requirements for proposal submission, assisting researchers to efficiently assess whether and how to respond to calls.
• Institutional site administrator accounts with functionality that allows for distribution and annotation of information to different levels in the subscriber organisation.
• Personal accounts for every user with functionality that allows for personalised keyword searching, file saving and file sharing.
• Twice-weekly e-mail alerts to every account-holder, with the latest news, views and funding opportunities.
• Web-based community features (internal to the organisation or between organisations) allowing information and know-how sharing in forums and chatrooms.
• Administrator Direct – moderated on-line support and mentoring services provided by Research Africa experts.
• Free and universal access on Research-Africa.net to two e-libraries: the NEPAD STI policy e-library which is a searchable database containing every African countries’ STI policy documents; and the ACU university R&I policy e-library which is a searchable database containing downloadable documents from the universities of many African and other Commonwealth countries.

Physical Address
5th Floor
Buitengracht Centre
Buitengracht Street
Cape Town
8005

Phone: +27 (0)21 409 7912
Fax: +27 (0)21 409 7050

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