HSRC Press

The HSRC Press is a non-profit publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science publications, in print and electronic form. The HSRC Press is a hybrid press, with a mandate to disseminate Human Sciences Research Council research output and other valuable social science research. It supports the social science research community through a strong commitment to ‘opening access to quality social science in Africa’.

Some of our distinguishing features include:

• Free access to information via our open access electronic publishing model;
• Our print publications do not go ‘out of print’ when market demand drops; instead our electronic publishing model enables us to archive material and supply copies in small quantities;
• Our print-based publications are significantly more affordable as the sale prices for print based publications do not include profit margins;
• Unusual attention is paid to each publication we produce as we are not constrained by the commercial demand of publishing a large numbers of titles annually;
• The formal peer-review process guarantees the highest academic quality.

The Press has a very active local and international marketing programme, in addition to collaborating with foreign publishers on specific titles.

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Contact the HSRC Press

• Address: HSRC Press
  Human Sciences Research Council
  Private Bag X9182, Cape Town, 8000
  South Africa

  16th Floor, Pleinpark Building
  69-83 Plein Street, Cape Town

• Tel: +27 21 466 8000
  Fax: +27 21 461 0836
  E-mail: publishing@hsrc.ac.za

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Views on the Press

Broadening the exchange of knowledge – Mail and Guardian – 13 June 2008
by Garry Rosenberg (Publishing Director)

Open Access, Why the Fuss? – Mail and Guardian – 14 March 2008
by Karen Bruns (Marketing Manager)