Susan Murray

For the past 10 years, Susan Murray has been the Executive Director of African Journals OnLine (www.ajol.info). AJOL is a South African Non-Profit Organisation working toward increased visibility and quality of African-published research journals.

AJOL hosts the world’s largest online collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals and is a sponsoring member of CrossRef. Susan is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ www.doaj.org), a member of the Advisory Board for the Public Knowledge Project’s current study on Open Access Publishing Cooperatives, and member of the Advisory Board of CODESRIA’s new African Citation Index initiative.

Susan has an academic background in Development Economics and has an abiding interest in the role that increased access to research outputs can play in low income and emerging economies, as well as the practicalities of attaining this.