Geographical Indication (GI) options for Ethiopian Coffee and Ghanaian Cocoa

Innovation & Intellectual Property
questionnaire and focus group data found that the main motivation for most of
the authors to publish scholarly works is attribution of the publication to their
name. These authors thus consider moral rights to be of greater importance in
scholarly publishing than economic rights. Economic rights – including royalties
from publishers, fees from assignments and transfers of copyright – are considered
by most authors to be secondary. The authors surveyed value recognition, via
publication of their work, more than any aspect of monetary compensation that
might result.
The primary motivating factors among authors for publishing scholarly works
were found to be the following:
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attribution of the publication to the author’s name (17 out of 20 authors
cited this as a primary motivating factor);
publishing in the spirit of promotion of scholarship and scholarly activities;
promotion of knowledge;
dissemination of information in their areas of expertise;
a responsibility to the scholarly world and society; and
advancement in the teaching profession, for example, in the hierarchy
of lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor (4 out of 20
authors).
Secondary motivating factors for authors in publishing scholarly works were
found to be as follows:
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royalties from publishers (17 out of 20 authors cited this as a secondary
motivating factor); and
fees from the transfer and assignment of copyright.
This position contrasted sharply with the position of some of the publishers surveyed,
who consider the economic value of a scholarly publication to be more
important.
Some of the authors stated that they have adopted the following strategies of
authorship in the context of open scholarship:
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publishing on blogs;
publishing on personal websites;
keeping online journals; and
providing their work to online OA libraries.
Some authors surveyed indicated that the movement towards open scholarship
has yet to affect their relationship with other stakeholders like publishers and
information managers. This is partly because the concept is still new in Kenya
and has yet to be fully embraced. Some authors surveyed blame information
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