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We analyze the programmatic discourse of Canada’s International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) African research initiatives, and report on an IDRC research and development project assessing the means of increasing access to African scholarly journals through the use of open source software platforms and open access publishing and archiving models. Consistent with IDRC’s multiyear effort to contribute directly to university-based research capacities by investing in ICT infrastructure in Africa, our survey of African editors, librarians, and faculty from five African nations reveals a similar interest in developing those capacities, despite numerous challenges, through the use of online publishing systems and OA publishing models, which hold some promise of increasing access to research published in Africa.  \n90 CJHE / RCES Volume 39, No. 3, 2009  \nRÉSUMÉ  \nCet article analyse l’évolution de la relation entre le Canada et la communauté de recherche africaine en avançant le concept de la Technologie de l’Information et de la Communication pour le Développement (TICpD), ainsi que de son potentiel pour augmenter la circulation de la recherche grâce à des modèles de publication commel’accès libre. Nous analysons le discours programmatique des initiatives africaines émanant du Centre de Recherche pour le Développement International canadien (CRDI), et nous faisons le bilan d’un projet de recherche et de développement portant sur l’évaluation de moyensvisant à faisant croître l’accès aux revues savantes africaines, en particulier grâce à des plates-formes de logiciels libres et grâce à des modèles de publication et d’archivage en accès libre. De concert avec l’effort pluriannuel du CRDI de contribuer directement aux capacités de recherches universitaires par son investissement dans les infrastructures TIC africaines, notre sondage de rédacteurs en chef, de bibliothécaireset de chercheurs de cinq pays d’Afrique, révèle ces derniers s’intéressent à développer le genre d’outils, en dépit de nombreux obstacles, offrant la possibilité d’améliorer l’accès aux recherches publiées en Afrique, eten particulier les outils de publication en ligne ainsi que les modèles de publication en accès libre.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nIncreasing research investments in African countries has been identified asa key recommendation for achieving the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals in Africa (MDG Africa Steering Group, 2008) . In addition, investments in information and communications technologies (ICT) for both research and economic development have been endorsed by the Global Knowledge Partnership and the United Nations Group on the Information Society (Leye, 2009) . As part of a global interest in increasing ICT infrastructure as a way to enhance social and economic participation, a strategy known as Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) has emerged in the international development community, particularly in the period since the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society (ICT4D Collective, 2009) . 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