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The Department of Higher Education & Training (DHET) has recently issued a follow-up statement regarding predatory journals. Some of the journals indicated as “possibly predatory” are not predatory. The list of journals now labelled “not predatory” are as follows: Title ISSN … Continue reading →

The Department of Higher Education & Training (DHET) recently highlighted the issue of predatory journals with regards to the recognition of research articles in accredited journals. The DHET has now taken matters a step further and identified a list of … Continue reading →

In case you missed it… The Library and Information Service invited Dr John Measey, senior researcher at the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, to talk about Open Access as part of International Open Access week 2017 in October. … Continue reading →

The Office of Scholarly Communication is delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Hawking has given the University permission to make his thesis freely available and Open Access in Apollo. By making his PhD thesis open anyone in the world can … Continue reading →

BASE (operated by Bielefeld University Library) is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources with access to the full texts of about 60% … Continue reading →

Prof Johann Mouton of CREST and Astrid Valentine recently published a significant study on predatory publishing in SA in the South African Journal of Science. This is the first study to analyse the extent of predatory publishing in South Africa. … Continue reading →

Studies in Digital Heritage is a brand new open access journal publishing peer-reviewed articles, monographs, and special issues treating the entire gamut of topics in the field of Digital Heritage. The journal is hosted on an Open Journals System hosting … Continue reading →

The NRF ORCID statement On Friday 7 April the National Research Foundation (NRF) distributed an ORCID statement requiring all researchers and students applying for funding and rating to have an ORCID identifier. The NRF membership of ORCID ensures that researchers … Continue reading →

ImpactStory has released Unpaywall, linking users to full-text as they browse research articles. Unpaywall is powered by an index of over ten million legally-uploaded, open-access resources, and it delivers.   Read more or download freely from: http://blog.impactstory.org/unpaywall/

The South African Sustainable Development Knowledge Hub – a first for Africa – was launched at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg, South Africa on 16 March 2017.   The Hub is the first … Continue reading →