DST-NRF INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME AT ASSAf February 15, 2012
Posted by Louise in : DST, NRF, Open Access Scholarly Publishing, SciELO SA , add a comment- Mohau Moja
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) makes available funding to the Human Capacity Building Programme of the National Research Foundation (NRF) to administer an internship programme for unemployed graduates in the Science field.
The purpose is to offer an opportunity to acquire practical work experience through mentoring and exposure to a research environment for 1 year. ASSAf’s Scholarly Publishing Unit hosted two Information Science graduates for the 2011/2012 DST-NRF Internship programme: Mohau Moja and Goodwin Khuli (both University of Pretoria graduates). Their internship at ASSAf ends on the 31st of March 2012.
The interns have helped with the e-publication of journal issues on the SciELO SA database which has boosted the growth of the database. As from the beginning of April another intake of interns will start at ASSAf.
Comments from Mohau Moja on the value of the internship programme:
Few university graduates are fortunate enough to get full-time employment on completion of their degrees. The transition from university to occupying a challenging job is not automatic. An internship is ideal for graduates to meet with the realities of their chosen career paths. Through the programme interns are presented with opportunities to:
- Acquire real-time working experience
- Demonstrate strengths or capabilities through practice, more than a CV can do
- Attend short courses aimed at developing qualities necessary for employment
- Network with people from related work or study fields
- Increase their likelihood of employability.
To conclude I would like to agree that the DST/NRF Capacity Development Programme is empowering our graduates.
SciELO SA UPDATE November 17, 2011
Posted by Louise in : Open Access Scholarly Publishing, SciELO SA , add a comment
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
