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…)
THE WEEK OF 24-30 OCTOBER 2011 IS GLOBAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK October 26, 2011
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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 SA (Scientific Electronic Library Online) offers increased visibility, accessibility and indexability to the articles in these journals. (more…)
Open-access journal publishing August 31, 2011
Posted by Louise in : Open Access Scholarly Publishing , add a commentThe 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.
NATIONAL SCHOLARY EDITORS’ FORUM MEETS AGAIN August 24, 2011
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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”. (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…)
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
Public lecture on open access: Prof Tom Cochrane March 14, 2011
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Prof Tinyiko Maluleke (Executive Director: Research, UNISA), Mrs Susan Veldsman (Director: Scholarly Publishing Programme, ASSAf) and Prof Cochrane (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology)
ASSAf hosted Professor Tom Cochrane from the University of Queensland to speak on The development of the open access paradigm in scholarly publishing, on 25 February 2011. Prof Cochrane is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). (more…)
UNESCO OPEN ACCESS WORKSHOP HOSTED BY ASSAf March 10, 2011
Posted by Louise in : International Relations, Liaison, Open Access Scholarly Publishing , add a commentUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in collaboration with the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and eIFL (Knowledge without Boundaries), presented a workshop on the benefits of open access for research dissemination, usage, visibility and impact.
Back row: Jaco du Toit (UNESCO), Linda Fick (ASSAf) Denise Nicholson (WITS), Paul Nampala (Uganda), Eve Gray (UCT), Charles Batambuze (Uganda), Khaled Fourati (IDRC), Vasco Lino (Mozambique), Enyinna Nwauche (Nigeria), Mogodisheng Sekhwela (Botswana)
Front row: Susan Veldsman (ASSAf), Elsabe Olivier (UP), Louise van Heerden (ASSAf), Luci Abrahams (WITS), Mapiti Matete (Lesotho) , Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Marietta Dlamini (Swaziland), Tefetso Mothibe (Lesotho)
TWAS & OWSDW Thesis Repository February 9, 2011
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The Scholarly Publishing Unit of the Academy of Science in South Africa (ASSAf), has created an open accessible Institutional Repository(IR) for theses resulting from TWAS, the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World and OWSDW (Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World), particularly for those by African students or carried out in African institutions.
TWAS is an autonomous international organization, based in Trieste, Italy, that promotes scientific excellence for sustainable development in the South.
The repository was developed by using the DSpace software. Currently 22 theses have been loaded onto the repository covering the Heath, Medical, Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and more to be added on a monthly basis. Theses accessible on the database were produced from countries like Nigeria, Sudan, Brazil and South Africa.
The purpose of the IR is to:
a) showcase the TWAS funded research as a collection
b) make them easily accessible for the TWAS community
c) serve as a record what has been funded over the years by TWAS
d) ensure open accessibility of research to all users
To visit and search this site : http://twas.assaf.org.za:8080/jspui/
To learn more about TWAS: http://www.twas.org
