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The Open Repositories Steering Committee and Stellenbosch University is delighted to announce that the 15th Open Repositories Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 1-4 June 2020. The conference will be organised by Stellenbosch University Library and Information … Continue reading →

The Journal of Emerging African Scholarship (JEAS) is the first and currently only peer-reviewed journal based on the African continent publishing original scholarship written by undergraduate and honours students. Focused on publishing M.I.T (Multi-, Inter-, Transdisciplinary) research aimed at the … Continue reading →

A precious collection of the original botanical illustrations prepared for printing between 1912 and 1932 in Rudolf Marloth’s Flora of South Africa, has now been digitalised by the Stellenbosch University Library. The collection of 176 plates contains the original illustrations by … Continue reading →

The Library’s digital heritage repository, SUNDigital Collections, which currently hosts 12 861 individual items in 30 collections, recently underwent an essential system upgrade. This upgrade resulted in a new look and feel for the repository, as well as enhanced features … Continue reading →

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 →