Author Archives: scholar

Are you ready to submit your thesis, dissertation or article to the Library’s digital research repository? This library training opportunity for postgraduate students or staff is designed to provide practical guidance to those ready to submit their thesis/dissertation into SUNScholar. … Continue reading →

Dear Colleagues   Please take note of the following announcement that was posted on the OAP Fund website this morning:   Announcement 27 January 2017 A limited amount has been made available for an interim period for the funding of … Continue reading →

Beall’s list of predatory publishers removed An academic librarian’s lists of “predatory” journals and publishers vanished from the internet without explanation. Read more: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/17/bealls-list-potential-predatory-publishers-go-dark/

* Please share with colleagues/students where applicable. ALL CORRESPONDENCE MUST BE SEND TO scholar@sun.ac.za  Submission to SUNScholar SUNScholar is now open to receive new nominations for the March 2017 graduation period. Guidelines for submission into SUNScholar is available at Library … Continue reading →

SAJHE has published its latest issue 2016 30(6) at http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thanks for the continuing interest in our … Continue reading →

In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs. These are the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016: https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2016/?utm_source=mailinglistemail&utm_campaign=top1002016mailinglist&utm_medium=email  

Author: Bronwyn Bruton. Translation by Naomi Visser. Photograph by Celeste Reynolds Published: 22/11/2016 Professor Eugene Cloete (Vice-Rector: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies) challenged delegates to change the paradigm of how learning happens and asserted that librarians lead the way and … Continue reading →

Per Linguam has just published its latest issue at http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Thank you for the continuing interest in … Continue reading →

The Library and Information Service’s main open access initiatives currently include SUNScholar, the open access institutional repository, SUNDigital Collections, an open digital heritage repository, SUNJournals, an open journal hosting platform and SUNConferences, an open conference hosting platform. The library also … Continue reading →

Dear colleague The Library and Information Service cordially invites you to a presentation in celebration of International Open Access Week 2016. Guest presenter: Melissa Badenhorst from World Wide Information Services Theme: Evaluating research output, impact, collaborations and trends in Open … Continue reading →