INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY ‘COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE’ MEETING HELD AT ASSAf November 24, 2011
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From left: Louise van Heerden (ASSAf), Adèle van der Merwe (CSIR), Hettie Groenewald (UP), Ria Groenewald (UP), Zweli Ndayi (ASSAf) and Susan Veldsman (ASSAf)
On Wednesday, 23 November 2011, the Scholarly Publishing Unit of ASSAf hosted a ‘Community of Practice’ meeting focussing on Digitisation. The meeting was arranged by Louise van Heerden, SciELO SA Database Coordinator and Zweli Ndayi, Project Officer and Institutional Repository Coordinator.
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities signed November 17, 2011
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During Open Access Week (24-30 October 2011) the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was signed at three South African universities. This Declaration is an international statement on open access to knowledge. (more…)
SciELO SA UPDATE November 17, 2011
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The Scholarly Publishing Unit of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is in the process of adding the following prestigious scholarly journal titles to the SciELO SA Open Access platform:
- Historia; and
- The Journal of the Southern African Journal of Mining and Metallurgy.
This will bring the total number of titles on the platform to 22. Approximately 1 additional title and 100 articles are added to the platform per month. During the last month the platform has, on average, been visited 1 020 times 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
