AJOL Supporters for Sustainability
AJOL amplifies African voices in global discourse on equity in scholarly communications.
AJOL provides free online hosting and technical services that allow stand-alone journals to be OA.
AJOL puts African research on the global map through massive online visibility — several million articles are downloaded from the platform each month.
African Journals Online (AJOL) seeks annual commitments for financial support in order to sustainably continue our critical work and also to expand our organisational capacity to meet a long waiting list of applicant Open journals, in particular.
While our services are free to the various groups we serve, our work is not without costs, and the current traditional donor environment is not providing this Non Profit Organisation with sustainable funds.
Each AJOL Supporter will be listed with their logo on the AJOL website, be provided with an invoice (AJOL is a tax exempt South African Non Profit Company), be provided with AJOL’s annual audited financial statements and a short annual report on how your institute or institution’s contribution is making a difference at the end of each year.
Recommendations for annual contributions are as follows (with institutes, universities, libraries or consortia deciding for themselves on their size category):
Institutes from Medium/Low
Income Countries
Grasslands Supporters
Small Institutes from
High Income Countries (HICs)
Aloe Supporters
Medium Institutes from HICs
Acacia Supporters
Large Institutes from HICs
Mahogany Supporters
Very Large Institutes from HICs
Baobab Supporters
Please contact the AJOL Operations Director, Ivy Mutambanengwe, via ivy@ajol.info to request an invoice.
Our 2024 target tree:
Support already secured for 2024 
Consortia & Donors
Rain Forest Supporters
WHAT AJOL does
- We provide free online hosting and technical services.
- We make it feasible for stand-alone journals to be OA.
- We provide training and capacity building support.
- We provide an alternative to commercial platforms.
- We amplify African voices in global discourse on equity in scholarly communications.
- We put African research on the global map through massive online visibility.
WHO we do it for
- Editors and journal Boards
- Researchers and authors
- Higher Education professionals
- Syllabus creators
- Librarians
- Students
- Policymakers
- Practitioners
Our STRENGTHS
- Our history and longevity.
- Our global reputation as a collaborative, not-for-profit.
- Our extensive African and global network.
- Our commitment to taking a developmental approach.
- Our values and ethics.
- Our unique JPPS quality assessment framework.
- Our Pan-African, non-political stance.
WHY we do it
- Supporting the quality of African research journals;
- Promoting the openness of African research content;
- Promoting trust in African scholarly publishing;
- Countering the loss of intellectual property from the African continent;
- Promoting the link between investment in higher education and economic development; and
- Promoting contextually relevant solutions to real-world problems
