Open Access @ Stellenbosch University

Beste kollegas 

Almal word uitgenooi na die volgende SUNScholar Submitter-opleidingsessie. 

Wat is SUNScholar?
SUNScholar is die volteks, oop toegang digitale navorsingsbewaarplek van die Universiteit van Stellenbosch. Dit word gebruik om ons belangrikste bate – navorsingsprodukte deur navorsers verbonde aan ons Universiteit – sentraal in digitale formaat vir die langtermyn te bewaar.  Besoek SUNScholar by https://scholar.sun.ac.za

Datum: 27/05/2010

Tyd: 09:00 – 11:00

Lokaal: De Necker-kamer, JS Gericke Biblioteek

Fasiliteerders: Ina Smith & Paulette Talliard 

Verwagte uitkoms
Aan die einde van die sessie sal jy SUNScholar kan gebruik en ‘n item in digitale formaat op SUNScholar kan oplaai.  

Wie moet dit bywoon?
Enigeen wat belangstel/wat verantwoordelik is vir die oplaai van navorsingsmateriaal binne ‘n spesifieke department/fakulteit, of enigeen wat betrokke is by besluitneming binne SUNScholar. Selfs indien jy net nuuskierig is en wil kennis neem, is jy meer as welkom! 

Berei asb. voor ….
…. deur soos volg aan te teken:
1. Gaan na http://neo.bib.sun.ac.za/xmlui/
2. Kliek op “Login”.
3. Kliek op “Campus Authentication”.
4. Teken aan met jou kampus Gebruikersnaam en Wagwoord. En dit is al! 

Registreer asb. vir die sessie
Ons kan maksimum 10 persone per keer akkommodeer. Registreer asb. deur ‘n e-pos te stuur aan:  scholar@sun.ac.za voor Dinsdag 25/05/2010 12:00. 

Ons sien daarna uit om julle te sien! 

Vriendelike groete
Ina & Paulette

All are invited to the next SUNScholar Submitter Training Session. 

What is SUNScholar?
SUNScholar is the full text, open access digital research repository of the University of Stellenbosch. It centrally preserves our most valuable asset – research products produced by researchers at the University – for years to come, and at the same time increases traffic to research conducted at our University. Visit SUNScholar at https://scholar.sun.ac.za

Date: 27/05/2010

Time: 09:00 – 11:00

Venue: De Necker Room, JS Gericke Library

Facilitators: Ina Smith & Paulette Talliard 

Expected outcome
At the end of this session you will be able to use SUNScholar and submit an item in digital format to SUNScholar. 

Who should attend?
Anyone interested in/ with the responsibility to submit research output by their departments/ faculties/ unit. Even if you don’t plan to submit anything but are just curious on how the process works, you are most welcome! 

Please prepare ….
…. by logging in as follows:
1. Go to http://neo.bib.sun.ac.za/xmlui/
2. Click on “Login”.
3. Click on “Campus Authentication”.
4. Login with your campus Username and Password. And that’s it! 

Please register
We can accommodate maximum 10 delegates at a time. Please register by sending and e-mail to: scholar@sun.ac.za before Tuesday 25/05/2010 12:00. 

Looking forward to see you there! 

Kind regards
Ina & Paulette

The IRSpace search engine  – used to conduct a federated search across all African and South African research repositories – has been updated according to the repositories listed in openDOAR.

IRSpace URL: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=013518019117943970829:tlw8-sayn_q 

It is indexed by Google, and results are returned in the Google fashion. Search the same as you would within Google or Google Scholar.

Come and join us for a training session on SUNScholar in the JS Gercike Library, De Necker Room, on 01 April 2010 from 09H00-11H00.  Please register at http://neo.bib.sun.ac.za/xmlui and send an e-mail to scholar@sun.ac.za.

BioMed Central is pleased to announce an important new development, designed to help Member institutions to adopt a fully integrated approach to open access by automatically populating their institutional repositories with newly published articles from BioMed Central’s open access journals.

With institutional repositories now widespread, and with institution-wide open access deposit policies becoming ever more common, one of the main challenges remaining is to ensure that institutional repositories are reliably and promptly populated with the latest published articles, in accordance with these policies. To assist our Member institutions, BioMed Central has developed an automated article-deposit system based on the SWORD protocol. Using this system, any open access article published in a BioMed Central journal will be automatically deposited in its official final published form into the author’s institutional repository, offering significant savings of time and effort for both authors and repository administrators. BioMed Central’s SWORD deposit service is offered at no additional charge to all BioMed Central member institutions – for more information see our SWORD deposit service webpage.

The SWORD protocol service also integrates seamlessly with our hosted repository service, Open Repository (OR). Open Repository is a hosted repository service built on top of the open source DSpace platform. BioMed Central Members are entitled a 10% discount on the OR service.  The service offers an easy to manage, flexible solution without the technical burdens associated with hosting a repository in-house.  More information and case studies showing how institutions have lowered costs and improved services by using OR to run their institutional repository are available on the OR website.

If you are interested in the SWORD deposit service then please complete and return the attached requirements form and we will be happy to arrange this for you.  Alternatively if your institution would like to know more about the possibility of hosting its repository with Open Repository, please do get in touch.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Matthew Cockerill

Managing Director
BioMed Central

All are welcome to attend our SUNScholar training on 25 March 2010.  JS Gericke Library, Univ Stellenbosch from 09h00 till 11h00.  To register send an e-mail to scholar@sun.ac.za before the end of Wednesday, 24/03/10 16h30.

Dear all

Congratulations to all supervisors/promotors who will have students graduating from today until Wednesday. The theses/dissertations submitted to SUNeTD will now go through a workflow process, and will hopefully be available soon. Thank you for your patience.

Just a few remarks:

• A record number of 440 theses/dissertations have been submitted for the March 2010 graduation! A huge thanks to each and everyone who made this possible, especially the people at the various faculties/departments!
• December 2010 nominations to start on 1 September 2010
• Closing date for December 2010 nominations & submissions: 25 November 2010

With kind regards,

Ina (on behalf of the SUNScholar Team)

Dear colleagues 

All are invited to the next SUNScholar Submitter Training Session. 

What is SUNScholar?

SUNScholar is the full text, open access digital research repository of the University of Stellenbosch. It preserves our most valuable asset – research products owned by the University – for years to come, and at the same time increase traffic to research conducted at our University. Visit SUNScholar at http://scholar.sun.ac.za

Date: 11/03/2010

Time: 09:00 – 11:00

Venue: De Necker Room, JS Gericke Library

Facilitators: Ina Smith & Paulette Talliard 

Expected outcome

At the end of this session you will be able to submit an item in digital format to SUNScholar. 

Who should attend?
Anyone interested in/ with the responsibility to submit research output by their departments/ faculties/ unit. Even if you don’t plan to submit anything but are just curious on how the process works, you are most welcome! 

Please prepare ….

…. by logging in as follows:
1. Go to https://scholar.sun.ac.za/xmlui
2. Click on “Login”.
3. Click on “Campus Authentication”.
4. Login with your campus Username and Password. And that’s it! 

Please register

We can accommodate maximum 10 delegates at a time.

Please register by sending and e-mail to: scholar@sun.ac.za before Wednesday 10/03/2010 12:00. 

Looking forward to see you there! 

Kind regards
Ina & Paulette

Dear colleagues 

You are invited to the next SUNScholar Submitter Training Session. Please note that more sessions are to follow. 

Date: 04/03/2010

Time: 09:00 – 11:00

Venue: De Necker Room, JS Gericke Library

Facilitators: Ina Smith & Paulette Talliard 

Expected outcome

At the end of this session you would be able to submit an item in digital format to SUNScholar, the full text open access and central digital research repository of the University of Stellenbosch. 

Who should attend?
Anyone interested in/ with the responsibility to submit research output by their departments/ faculties/ unit. Even if you don’t plan to submit anything but are just curious on how the process works, you are most welcome! 

Please prepare ….

…. by logging in as follows:
1. Go to https://scholar.sun.ac.za/xmlui
2. Click on “Login”.
3. Click on “Campus Authentication”.
4. Login with your campus Username and Password. And that’s it! 

Please register

We can accommodate maximum 20 delegates at a time.

Please register by sending and e-mail to: scholar@sun.ac.za before Wednesday 03/03/2010 12:00. 

Looking forward to see you there! 

Kind regards
Ina & Paulette

View the ppt at http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/379

Inquiries: scholar@sun.ac.za

8 Feb. 2010: Metadata Editor Training
11 Feb. 2010: Submitter Training
18 Feb. 2010: Submitter Training
4 March 2010: Submitter Training

Venue: De Necker, Lower Level, JS Gericke Library
Time: 9:00 – 11:00

Inquiries: scholar@sun.ac.za or 021 808 9139