SUNScholar
Central digital archive of all research output by members of SU. Provides open access to your research output, and is digitally preserved for the long term. Our focus is on getting hold of the post-print (via the author), and then submit it to SUNScholar. When submitting an article to open access SUNScholar, we are required to adhere to publishers’ policies. See SHERPA RoMEO.
SUNJournals
The University (Library) now hosts open access journals in some way affiliated with the University. See examples at http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/Pilot_Project
Open Access Journals
Browse according to subject. See DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=browse&uiLanguage=en
Copyright
Avoid signing away your copyright. Rather assign a cc license, or negotiate with the publisher to have the post-print of an article submitted to SUNScholar. You can also add an addendum and include in your agreement with the publisher.
SPARC Addendum
The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine (SCAE)
List of journals that qualify for DoE funding (DoE accredited journal titles)
Available at: http://www0.sun.ac.za/research/assets/forms/list%20of%20approved%20south%20african%20journals%20as%20maintained%20by%20the%20doe.pdf
Open Access Fund
If you want to publish in an OA journal, and requires funding support, please send your request with details on the journal, as well as a brief motivation to:
Reneé Reagon
E-mail: rraju@sun.ac.za
Tel.: +27 (0) 21 808 4641
Converting pdf to EPUB
Use Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
Libopedia
Create a personal profile on the wiki. Example – School of Public Leadership: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Faculty_of_Economic_and_Management_Sciences/School_of_Public_Leadership
All you need to do is to register an account, we will then approve it, and then you can start creating your wiki page.
Researchers’ ID’s using ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID. A non-profit organization dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in scholarly research and brings together the leaders of the most influential universities, funding organizations, societies, publishers and corporations from around the globe. The ideal solution is to establish a registry that is adopted and embraced as the de facto standard by the whole of the community. A resolution to the systemic name ambiguity problem, by means of assigning unique identifiers linkable to an individual’s research output, will enhance the scientific discovery process and improve the efficiency of funding and collaboration.