The latest results of the Webometric Ranking of World Universities, announced on 6 February this year, placed Stellenbosch University in the top position on the continent.

According to Ms Ellen Tise, Senior Director of the Library and Information Service, the Stellenbosch University’s Open Access initiatives and institutional repository play an instrumental role in the transfer of the  scientific and cultural knowledge between the University and society and increases the visibility of the University substantially.

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Researchers are being asked to publish Open Access (OA), but often do not have the funding to pay for it directly.

In July, to help with this, the Royal Society of Chemistry launched Gold for Gold, enabling RSC Gold subscribers in the UK to publish a select number of RSC papers free-of-charge via Gold Open Access (OA). http://www.rsc.org/publishing/librarians/goldforgold.asp

We are delighted to extend this initiative to the rest of the world. From now on, all RSC Gold subscribing institutions will be rewarded with voucher codes to publish OA articles at no cost.

For more information, go to our Gold for Gold website. http://www.rsc.org/publishing/librarians/goldforgold.asp

And, to find out exactly how the process will work, take a look at our FAQs. http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/GoldforGoldFAQs.asp

Max Espley
Campaigns Manager – Librarians

Royal Society of Chemistry
Thomas Graham House, Science Park,
Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432498, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 420247
www.rsc.org/publishing
espleym@rsc.org

Now all RSC Gold subscribers receive voucher codes to publish RSC papers via Open Access. Find out more…

Dear all

2012 has been a special year, and we are thankful for so many things we were part of – maybe the highlight of the year – the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference (www.berlin10.org). We were fortunate to welcome people from all over the world to our beautiful country to learn, share, observe, innovate etc. regarding Open Access and more. Lifelong relationships were established, and it was a privilege working with the Max Planck Society on this conference.

December graduation is coming up, and we wish to congratulate all candidates! The full text of your theses/dissertations will be made online available from SUNScholar http://scholar.sun.ac.za from 17 December 2012. From here it will be digitally preserved for years to come, and open access will be provided to your research in order to increase its visibility, impact and citation rate. Please link to the persistent URL from your online environments, CV’s, etc. And check out the statistics! It is great to see how frequently it is being used and from where in the world people access your research. Also great for the research profile of SU! You really do us proud.

A major upgrade of the open source software we are using (DSpace) is planned for December, and we hope to bring you an even better product in the new year!

From the SUNScholar Team

More highlights to be added soon ….

Open access to research information
Stellenbosch University including the Library and Information Service, supports open access to scholarly research. You are welcome to read more about the open access initiatives at our University on the web page for Open Access. Initiatives include amongst others:

-          SUNScholar: SUNScholar is an open access electronic archive for the collection, preservation and distribution of digital materials created by researchers of Stellenbosch University, which are of great academic research importance.

-          SUNJournals: A hosting service for open access online journals. This is a collaborative effort between the Library and Information Service and academic departments and other units affiliated with Stellenbosch University, in support of the mission and strategy of the University.

-          SUNConferences: Host, manage and publish conferences and conference proceedings online.

Uploading of theses for the December 2012 graduation

Departments are invited to proceed with nominating, uploading and approving theses. The final date for submissions is 29 November 2012. For more information about University policy and procedures, click here.

Retrospective theses and articles

Many items on SUNScholar have the full text attached, but unfortunately there are also many without the full text. If you can provide us with the full text of research articles (or full references to these) and theses from previous years, we would very much like to make these files available on SUNScholar after copyright has been cleared. Please send to: scholar@sun.ac.za

Berlin 10 Open Access Conference 7-8 November 2012

If you haven’t registered yet – there is still some time left. SU staff can register at a reduced rate of R 1 650,00 p.p. You are welcome to view the programme. To register, please complete the online form: http://www.lib.sun.ac.za/b10/registration.html (SU staff only).

Apply with Thomson Reuters to have an impact factor assigned to your journal

If you are interested in the above – please visit http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/journal_selection_process/ for information on the selection process, as well as the procedure. It is a two year process, and something that has to be done by the Editor of a journal him-/herself. If your journal is hosted on different platforms, make Thomson Reuters aware of it since they will need to take usage statistics from all the various platforms into account.

Register for accreditation by the Dept. of Higher Education and Training

Any SA University receives up to R 128 000,00 per article published in an accredited journal. If you want to apply for accreditation of your journal title with the DHET, please follow the procedure at: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/images/2/2a/Accreditation_dohe.pdf . The titles listed in the following indexes, are also DHET accredited:

•  How do I register my journal with the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)?<http://www.proquest.co.uk/assets/downloads/products/ibss_editorialpoliciesprinciples.pdf>

•  How do I submit my journal title to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index or the Arts and Humanities Citation Index?<http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/journal_selection_process/>

Current list of DHET accredited journals in addition to the above: http://www.journals.ac.za/images/3/3b/Doe_journals_2012.pdf

Status of journal titles hosted by SUNJournals

•  African East Asian Affairs – The China Monitor

•  African Zoology<http://africanzoology.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 27 (1992) – Vol. 47 (2012))

•  Akroterion<http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 46 (2001) – Vol. 56 (2011))

•  Cardiovascular Journal of Africa<http://cvja.journals.ac.za/pub> (Vol. 23 (2012))

•  Global Media Journal African Edition<http://globalmedia.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 1 (2007) – Vol. 6 (2012)) – The entire journal since 2007!

•  Lexikos<http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 11 (2001) – Vol. 21 (2011))

•  Missionalia<http://missionalia.journals.ac.za/> – In process

•  Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif<http://ngtt.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 51 (2010) – Vol. 53 (2012))

•  ORiON<http://orion.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 20 (2004) – Vol. 27 (2011))

•  Per Linguam<http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 17 (2001) – Vol. 27 (2011))

•  Scientia Militaria<http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 1 (1969) – Vol. 40 (2012)) – The entire journal since 1969!

•  Scriptura<http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 108 (2011))

•  South African Journal of Industrial Engineering<http://sajie.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 1 (1987) – Vol. 23 (2012)) – The entire journal since 1987!

•  South African Journal of Library and Information Science<http://sajlis.journals.ac.za/>  – In process

•  Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics (SPIL)<http://spil.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 34 (2002) – Vol. 40 (2011))

•  Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (SPILPlus)<http://spilplus.journals.ac.za/> (Vol. 38 (2009) – Vol. 40 (2010))

•  Zambian Journal of Physiotherapy<http://zjp.journals.ac.za/>

The ideal would be to have each journal from the first issue online available. If you can maybe provide us with the digital files (properly digitised and OCR’ed) for each issue and volume, we can assist with uploading it to your journal. Looking very much forward to hear from you!

Publishing journals using OJS

During the Berlin 10 OA Conference, a workshop will be hosted on using OJS to publish your journal. Hope you will be able to attend! See http://www.berlin10.org/workshops.html for more information.

Hosting conferences (SUNConferences)

Similar to OJS, we are also busy with a pilot project for hosting online conferences – from the call for abstracts up to publishing the conference proceedings. If you are interested in hosting a conference using Open Conference Systems<http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs>, please let me know. As with SUNScholar and SUNJournals, all will at the same time be digitally preserved for the long term. See http://conferences.sun.ac.za

Enabling academic excellence in African universities

Demonstrating the value and impact of academic libraries to university leadership

A joint ACU/INASP publication for African vice chancellors, rectors and university leaders

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

African universities must deliver on an ambitious and expansive agenda – meeting the growing demand for higher education, addressing the expectations of new generations of students, undertaking high quality research, contributing to national scientific capacity, and helping to address local and regional development needs through research, teaching and skills development.

Libraries and information services have a critical role to play in enabling and supporting their universities to meet these varied needs, but this role and potential is often not well understood at senior level.

The ACU and INASP are seeking contributions to a special supplement for African vice chancellors, rectors and deputy vice chancellors, to be distributed to the 110 universities in ACU membership.

The aim of this supplement will be to profile what African libraries are already doing to advance the research and teaching missions of their universities, and to demonstrate how they can support this into the future.

We are therefore seeking articles from African librarians and information professionals (including IT professionals) which address any of the key themes set out below.

Articles should profile examples of specific services or initiatives which your library is delivering or developing. They should not simply describe the service or initiative, but should explicitly explain how and why this is helping to address the needs of the university. They may take either an institutional view, or present a national or regional library and information initiative.

Interested writers should submit a brief abstract of around 300 words which sets out clearly (bullet points are acceptable) the key arguments which they would wish to make in their piece.

1. Marketing & advocacy
• Making the case for the library
• Raising awareness of resources and services
• Reaching different types of students and faculty users

2. The library’s contribution to academic excellence
• Return on library investment
• Judging and demonstrating quality
• The library’s role in course planning
• The library’s role in supporting research.

3. Strategic planning
• Linking library planning to institutional planning and objectives

4. New roles for university librarians
• Re-skilling librarians to supporting research
• Librarians as researchers / evidence based librarianship
• Integrating IL into the curriculum
• Library leadership
• The digital librarian

5. Enhancing the visibility and accessibility of research
• Institutional repositories and online publishing
• Supporting researchers to get published (open access, copyright etc)
• Open access – demystifying and promoting OA

6. Rethinking library space
• The continuing importance of libraries as teaching and learning spaces

The supplement will be an opportunity for librarians to represent themselves and their profession, and to profile their changing responsibilities and the new expertise which libraries are developing in the process.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 15th June 2012. Dates for final submission of articles will be agreed with selected writers in due course. Any queries should be addressed to the ACU and INASP: Jonathan Harle (j.harle@acu.ac.uk) or Peter Burnett (pburnett@inasp.info)

Economic development, decoupling and urban infrastructure : the role of innovation for an urban transition in Cape Town (989 views)

The development of Jewish ideas of angels : Egyptian and Hellenistic connections, ca. 600 BCE to ca. 200 CE (403 views)

Young Zulu women (340 views)

Comparison of King III and King II, and the implications of King III (302 views)

The scope of the accounting function in project management (298 views)

Dagbreek Residence / Koshuis, 1983 (283 views)

Factors affecting strategy implementation and the role of middle managers in implementation (279 views)

The effect of barefoot training on speed, agility, power and balance in netball players (277 views)

Zoledronic acid versus pamidronate in the treatment of skeletal metastases in patients with breast cancer or osteolytic lesions of multiple myeloma: A phase III, double-blind, comparative trial (273 views)

Human chorionic gonadotrophin and weight loss. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (264 views)

• Pharmacogenomic research in South Africa: lessons learned and future opportunities in the rainbow nation/ Louise Warnich, Britt I Drögemöller, Michael S Pepper, Collet Dandara, Galen EB Wright
• Creatine and exercise: strong evidence for stronger heart muscle?/ Ingrid Webster, Barbara Huisamen, Eugene du Toit
• The value of intervening for intimate partner violence in South African primary care: project evaluation/ Kate Joyner, R Mash
• The outcomes of HIV-positive patients with acute kidney injury treated in intensive care units/ MR Moosa
  Many Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall protein encoding genes are co-regulated by Mss11, but cellular adhesion phenotypes appear only Flo protein dependent/ Michael C Bester, Dan Jacobson, Florian F Bauer
• Improving the longevity and results of mastopexy and breast reduction procedures: reconstructing an internal breast support system with biocompatible mesh to relace the supporting function of the ligamentous suspension/ Peet van Deventer, FR Graewe, E Wuringer
• Recognizing intimate partner violence in primary care: Western Cape, South Africa/ Kate Joyner, R Mash
• A morbidity survey of South African primary care/ Bob Mash, Lara Fairall, Olunmi Adejayan, Omozuanvbo Ikpefan, Jyoti Kumari, Shaheed Mathee, Ronit Okun, Willy Yogolelo
• Correlated genetic and ecological diversification in a widespread southern African horseshoe bat/ Conrad A Matthee, Samantha Stofberg Hockey
• The fynbos and succulent Karoo biomes do not have exceptional local ant richness/ Brigitte Braschler, SL Chown, KJ Gaston
• A global compilation of over 13 000 dissolved iron measurements: focus on distributions and processes in the Southern Ocean/ AN Roychoudhury, A Tagliabue, T Mtshali, O Aumont, AR Bowie, MB Klunder, S Swart
• Field soil respiration rate on a sub-Antarctic island: its relation to site characteristics and response to added C, N and P/ Andrea Lubbe, Valdon R Smith
• Spatial variation in soil chemistry on a sub-Antarctic island/ EC Conradie, Valdon R Smith
• Managing your wine fermentation to reduce the risk of biogenic amine formation/ Maret du Toit, Anita Smit, Lynn Engelbrecht
• A quasi-experimental evaluation of an HIV prevention programme by peer education in the Anglican Church of the Western Cape, South Africa/ Rachel Mash, Bob Mash

Read more about the SU Open Access Fund: http://library.sun.ac.za/English/services/az/Pages/oa.aspx

Congratulations to all March 2012 graduates!

On behalf of SUNScholar, well done to all supervisors/promoters and graduates with the past graduation ceremony! 518 theses/dissertations have been submitted – the largest number in the history of SUNScholar!

You can access your thesis/dissertation from http://scholar.sun.ac.za . The easiest way to find your thesis is to do an Author search. Please share your thesis with others by forwarding the link, and also include the link as part of your CV, web page etc.

Open Access journals accredited by the DHET

In order to increase the visibility of SU research output and to have a greater impact, we would like to encourage you to publish in Open Access journals. For your convenience, the OA journals have been highlighted on the DHET list, impact factors have been added, as well as URL’s, SCImago journal rankings, ISI information, and many more. Click here to view the list.

Submission period for December 2012 graduation: 30 April – 29 November 2012

For those who already want to start nominating students for the December graduation period – you can start nominating students from 30 April 2011. The last date is 29 November 2012.

Geluk aan al die Maart 2012 gegradueerdes!

Namens SUNScholar, baie geluk aan al die studieleiers/promotors en gegradueerdes met die pas afgelope gradeplegtigheid! 518 tesisse/verhandelings is opgelaai – die grootste getal nog in die geskiedenis van SUNScholar!

Jou tesis/verhandeling is beskikbaar vanaf http://scholar.sun.ac.za . Die maklikste manier is om ‘n Outeursoektog te doen. Deel jou tesis/verhandeling met ander deur die skakel aan te stuur, die skakel in jou CV in te sluit, op jou persoonlike webbladsy, ens.

Oop Toegang tydskrifte geakrediteer deur die DHOO (DHET)

Ons wil almal graag aanmoedig om in Oop Toegang tydskrifte te publiseer, en sodoende nie sigbaarheid van die navorsing en die gevolglike impak daarvan te verhoog. Vir almal se gerief is die Oop Toegangtydskrifte op die DHOO-lys groen ingekleur, impakfaktore is aangedui, sowel as URL’s, SCImago posisionerings van tydskrifte, ISI inligting, en nog baie meer. Kliek hier om na die lys te kyk.

Oplaai van tesisse met die oog op die Desember 2012 gradeplegtigheid: 30 April – 29 November 2012

Vir almal wat reeds studente wil begin nomineer met die oog op die Desember –gradeplegtigheid – die stelsel sal vanaf 30 April beskikbaar wees. Die laaste datum is 29 November 2012.

We are very proud to announce that SUNScholar has been ranked as the 165th repository out of 1 200+ repositories internationally! Well done to all who have contributed to this huge achievemnet. Our previous position (July 2011) was 419, and we have therefore jumped 254 positions! Visit http://repositories.webometrics.info/ for more info.