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		<title>INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY ‘COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE’ MEETING HELD AT ASSAf</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/11/24/institutional-repository-%e2%80%98community-of-practice%e2%80%99-meeting-held-at-assaf/</link>
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		<title>Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities signed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. 
It emerged in 2003 from a conference on open access hosted in Berlin by the Max Planck Society. Organisations who share [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/11/17/berlin-declaration-on-open-access-to-knowledge-in-the-sciences-and-humanities-signed/</link>
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		<title>SciELO SA UPDATE</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/11/17/scielo-sa-update-2/</link>
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		<title>THE WEEK OF 24-30 OCTOBER 2011 IS GLOBAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) aims to apply scientific thinking in the service of society. One of these “Service to Society” projects is the creation of an open access database of prestigious academic South African journals. So far there are 20 titles on the database including close to 3 000 articles. The SciELO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/10/26/the-week-of-24-30-october-2011-is-global-open-access-week/</link>
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		<title>PROGRAMME OFFICER’S TRAINING IN ETHIOPIA</title>
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The participants outside the conference venue
Zarina Moola (Policy Advisory Programme) and Louise van Heerden (Scholarly Publishing Programme) from the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) were invited to participate in the Programme Officer’s Training Course organised by the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. The training [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/10/19/programme-officer%e2%80%99s-training-in-ethiopia/</link>
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		<title>Open-access journal publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Academy of Science of South Africa and UNESCO hosted a two-day workshop on open-access journal publishing at the Academy of Science of South Africa in Pretoria on 18 and 19 August 2011. 

There were 24 participants comprised of editors of local and regional scholarly journals from southern Africa (Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland). The aim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/08/31/open-access-journal-publishing/</link>
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		<title>NATIONAL SCHOLARY EDITORS&#8217; FORUM MEETS AGAIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Scholarly Editors’ Forum (NSEF) held its fifth annual meeting in Kempton Park’s Emperors Palace Convention Centre on Thursday, July 28 2011. This was the second NSEF meeting to be hosted at the venue near the OR Tambo International Airport. 
The theme this year was: “Changing landscapes of academic research and publishing”. 
The day-long Editors’ Forum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/08/24/national-scholary-editor%e2%80%99s-forum-meets-again/</link>
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		<title>National Scholarly Book Publishers&#8217; Forum meets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/06/20/national-scholarly-book-publisher%e2%80%99s-forum-meets/</link>
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		<title>HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE OF SAJS Vol 107, No 5/6 (2011)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SOUTH 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. 
The Tiarajudens find in Brazil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/06/14/highlights-from-the-current-issue-of-sajs-vol-107-no-56-2011/</link>
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		<title>ASSAf welcomes contributions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assaf-interactive.org.za/2011/06/14/assaf-welcomes-contributions/</link>
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