National Scholarly Book Publishers’ Forum meets June 20, 2011
Posted by Louise in : Events , add a commentThe National Scholarly Book Publisher’s Forum met on the 27th May 2011 at the Human Sciences Research Council’s offices in Cape Town. The meeting was attended by representatives of nine publishing institutions.
The vision and mission of the National Scholarly Book Publishers’ Forum is to make the Forum a significant new stakeholder in the South African national innovation system (NSI), with a voice that helps shape policy and promotes excellence and high visibility of the country’s research activities through the promotion and proper resourcing of scholarly book publishing in and from the country.
The objectives of the National Scholarly Book Publishers’ Forum will be generally to support and promote high-quality scholarly book publishing in South Africa, and especially to assist in the efforts of the Academy bringing about the following: (more…)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE OF SAJS Vol 107, No 5/6 (2011) June 14, 2011
Posted by Louise in : Publications, SAJS , add a commentSOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Vol 107, No 5/6 (2011)
Brazilian mammal-like fossil find suggests link to South Africa
The discovery of a 260-million-year-old Tiarajudens eccentricus in Brazil that was announced to the world in March this year may for the first time suggest that anomodonts roamed both continents in the Permian period. (more…)
ASSAf welcomes contributions June 14, 2011
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Litnet: Discussion on the paper by Braam Roux and Fanie de Beer
Reply from Prof Wieland Gevers (University of Cape Town) and Susan Veldsman (Academy of Science of South Africa)
The extended article by Roux and de Beer entitled“Towards quality science 2: The role of strategy, vision and quality” is one of the most thoughtful recent contributions to key issues in science policy in South Africa, and is to be welcomed. They rightly plead for a deeper and wider debate on the ways in which scholarship and science should be fostered in the country, and linked to national development in the widest sense. (more…)
Interns at Scholarly Publishing Unit June 14, 2011
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Mohau Moja is a University of Pretoria, information science graduate born in Mokopane (Limpopo). Along with this achievement, Mohau is also an IT-inclined computer technician whose interest is mainly to troubleshoot both the physical and operating systems involved in end-user computing. As from 1 April 2011 he has been appointed as an intern on a 12-month contract through the DST-NRF Internship Programme 2011-2012. His responsibilities include SciELO markup and e-publishing as well as other Scholarly Publishing Unit activities.
Goodwin Khuli
SciELO SA UPDATE June 13, 2011
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The Scholarly Publishing Unit of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) has recently added the following prestigious scholarly journal titles to the SciELO SA Open Access platform:
- Acta Theologica;
- SA Orthopaedic Journal; and
- Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
This brings the total number of titles on the platform to 17. Approximately 1 additional title and 100 articles are added to the platform per month. Over the last six months the platform has, on average, been visited 690 per day. At this stage the countries that visit the platform the most are South Africa, the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
Visit the SciELO SA database : www.scielo.org.za
