SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: THE MISSING LINK IN MUCG’S STRATEGIC PLAN (2006-2011)

Abstract

The four cardinal aims for the establishment of universities are teaching, learning, research and service to the community. Research has established itself as the pivot around which all academic life revolves in all universities and institutions of higher learning. scholarly publishing has also become the windmill that churns out research results to the end-user.

Since world University rankings take into account the number of articles published by Faculty members of each university it has become imperative for any university which wants to carve a reputation for itself to engage in and perform well in scholarly publishing.

The purpose of this paper is to survey the Scholarly Publishing landscape in MUCG during its first – ten years of existence and come out with the reasons for the slow progress in scholarly publishing in the University College.The paper will also make recommendationsto help step up Scholarly Publishing.