SciELO SA is growing! June 10, 2010
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The Scholarly Publishing Unit of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is happy to report that four more journal titles are in the process of being added to the SciELO SA Open Access platform! They are:
- Psychology in Society (PINS)
- South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (SAJIP)
- South African Journal of Animal Science (SAJAS)
- South African Journal of Agricultural Extension (SAJAE).
This will bring the total number of journals on the SciELO SA platform to eleven titles. ASSAf is continually negotiating with the editors of prestigious South African journals regarding placing their titles on this platform.
To date, 1064 articles have been added to the SciELO SA collection. According to Google Analytics, the SciELO SA site has been visited 14, 830 times by 163 countries and 2 112 cities between 10 May 2010 and 9 June 2010. At present, the countries accessing SciELO SA the most are South Africa, the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, India, Germany, Canada and China.
Role of libraries in research March 24, 2010
Posted by Zweli in : Events, Humanities and Education Studies, Open Access Scholarly Publishing , add a commentSouth African Library Week 2010 will be celebrated from 22 – 27 March 2010 with the theme: “Reading changes lives“. SALW2010 was launched on Saturday 20 March at the National Library of South Africa to coincide with the date of the declaration of the first public library in South Africa in 1818.
The Academy is made up of researchers wanting to benefit society through their research. Libraries play a crucial role in this endeavour.
During Library Week we acknowledge the role that libraries play in the production of research. Whereas the internet at large provides general information resources, libraries provide authoritative information resources such as books, journals and access to academic electronic resources. Click here to read more about SALW2010.
Possible online course system for scientific scholarly writing services August 19, 2009
Posted by Thabo in : Open Access Scholarly Publishing , add a commentThe Academy supports the idea of the proposed free-online scientific writing course system explored at an earlier Academy workshop. These online writing services would be a relevant intervention of the ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Programme on the capacity development side of the programme.
The issue of such online writing services was discussed during the National Scholarly Editors’ Forum meetings held in October 2008 and June 2009, where general support was expressed by the Forum members present. The project had, however, for a variety of regrettable reasons, not moved further than the previous stages of identifying a suitable four-tier model, namely: (more…)
Enhancement of the quality of journals through peer review August 13, 2009
Posted by Thabo in : Open Access Scholarly Publishing , 1 comment so farThe ASSAf process of discipline-grouped peer review of journals in the fields of agriculture and related basic life sciences, as well as in the social sciences and related fields, is being done according to criteria developed by the CSPiSA and approved by the ASSAf Council.
SciELO SA goes live! August 13, 2009
Posted by Susan in : Open Access Scholarly Publishing , add a commentASSAf’s Open Scholarly Publishing team has been involved in the launch of a pilot site for SciELO SA, initially on the ScieELO Brazil site, has been established using their existing hardware, software, and mark-up processes. (more…)
