Open Access @ Stellenbosch University

Enabling academic excellence in African universities

Demonstrating the value and impact of academic libraries to university leadership

A joint ACU/INASP publication for African vice chancellors, rectors and university leaders

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

African universities must deliver on an ambitious and expansive agenda – meeting the growing demand for higher education, addressing the expectations of new generations of students, undertaking high quality research, contributing to national scientific capacity, and helping to address local and regional development needs through research, teaching and skills development.

Libraries and information services have a critical role to play in enabling and supporting their universities to meet these varied needs, but this role and potential is often not well understood at senior level.

The ACU and INASP are seeking contributions to a special supplement for African vice chancellors, rectors and deputy vice chancellors, to be distributed to the 110 universities in ACU membership.

The aim of this supplement will be to profile what African libraries are already doing to advance the research and teaching missions of their universities, and to demonstrate how they can support this into the future.

We are therefore seeking articles from African librarians and information professionals (including IT professionals) which address any of the key themes set out below.

Articles should profile examples of specific services or initiatives which your library is delivering or developing. They should not simply describe the service or initiative, but should explicitly explain how and why this is helping to address the needs of the university. They may take either an institutional view, or present a national or regional library and information initiative.

Interested writers should submit a brief abstract of around 300 words which sets out clearly (bullet points are acceptable) the key arguments which they would wish to make in their piece.

1. Marketing & advocacy
• Making the case for the library
• Raising awareness of resources and services
• Reaching different types of students and faculty users

2. The library’s contribution to academic excellence
• Return on library investment
• Judging and demonstrating quality
• The library’s role in course planning
• The library’s role in supporting research.

3. Strategic planning
• Linking library planning to institutional planning and objectives

4. New roles for university librarians
• Re-skilling librarians to supporting research
• Librarians as researchers / evidence based librarianship
• Integrating IL into the curriculum
• Library leadership
• The digital librarian

5. Enhancing the visibility and accessibility of research
• Institutional repositories and online publishing
• Supporting researchers to get published (open access, copyright etc)
• Open access – demystifying and promoting OA

6. Rethinking library space
• The continuing importance of libraries as teaching and learning spaces

The supplement will be an opportunity for librarians to represent themselves and their profession, and to profile their changing responsibilities and the new expertise which libraries are developing in the process.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 15th June 2012. Dates for final submission of articles will be agreed with selected writers in due course. Any queries should be addressed to the ACU and INASP: Jonathan Harle (j.harle@acu.ac.uk) or Peter Burnett (pburnett@inasp.info)

Economic development, decoupling and urban infrastructure : the role of innovation for an urban transition in Cape Town (989 views)

The development of Jewish ideas of angels : Egyptian and Hellenistic connections, ca. 600 BCE to ca. 200 CE (403 views)

Young Zulu women (340 views)

Comparison of King III and King II, and the implications of King III (302 views)

The scope of the accounting function in project management (298 views)

Dagbreek Residence / Koshuis, 1983 (283 views)

Factors affecting strategy implementation and the role of middle managers in implementation (279 views)

The effect of barefoot training on speed, agility, power and balance in netball players (277 views)

Zoledronic acid versus pamidronate in the treatment of skeletal metastases in patients with breast cancer or osteolytic lesions of multiple myeloma: A phase III, double-blind, comparative trial (273 views)

Human chorionic gonadotrophin and weight loss. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (264 views)

• Pharmacogenomic research in South Africa: lessons learned and future opportunities in the rainbow nation/ Louise Warnich, Britt I Drögemöller, Michael S Pepper, Collet Dandara, Galen EB Wright
• Creatine and exercise: strong evidence for stronger heart muscle?/ Ingrid Webster, Barbara Huisamen, Eugene du Toit
• The value of intervening for intimate partner violence in South African primary care: project evaluation/ Kate Joyner, R Mash
• The outcomes of HIV-positive patients with acute kidney injury treated in intensive care units/ MR Moosa
  Many Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall protein encoding genes are co-regulated by Mss11, but cellular adhesion phenotypes appear only Flo protein dependent/ Michael C Bester, Dan Jacobson, Florian F Bauer
• Improving the longevity and results of mastopexy and breast reduction procedures: reconstructing an internal breast support system with biocompatible mesh to relace the supporting function of the ligamentous suspension/ Peet van Deventer, FR Graewe, E Wuringer
• Recognizing intimate partner violence in primary care: Western Cape, South Africa/ Kate Joyner, R Mash
• A morbidity survey of South African primary care/ Bob Mash, Lara Fairall, Olunmi Adejayan, Omozuanvbo Ikpefan, Jyoti Kumari, Shaheed Mathee, Ronit Okun, Willy Yogolelo
• Correlated genetic and ecological diversification in a widespread southern African horseshoe bat/ Conrad A Matthee, Samantha Stofberg Hockey
• The fynbos and succulent Karoo biomes do not have exceptional local ant richness/ Brigitte Braschler, SL Chown, KJ Gaston
• A global compilation of over 13 000 dissolved iron measurements: focus on distributions and processes in the Southern Ocean/ AN Roychoudhury, A Tagliabue, T Mtshali, O Aumont, AR Bowie, MB Klunder, S Swart
• Field soil respiration rate on a sub-Antarctic island: its relation to site characteristics and response to added C, N and P/ Andrea Lubbe, Valdon R Smith
• Spatial variation in soil chemistry on a sub-Antarctic island/ EC Conradie, Valdon R Smith
• Managing your wine fermentation to reduce the risk of biogenic amine formation/ Maret du Toit, Anita Smit, Lynn Engelbrecht
• A quasi-experimental evaluation of an HIV prevention programme by peer education in the Anglican Church of the Western Cape, South Africa/ Rachel Mash, Bob Mash

Read more about the SU Open Access Fund: http://library.sun.ac.za/English/services/az/Pages/oa.aspx

Congratulations to all March 2012 graduates!

On behalf of SUNScholar, well done to all supervisors/promoters and graduates with the past graduation ceremony! 518 theses/dissertations have been submitted – the largest number in the history of SUNScholar!

You can access your thesis/dissertation from http://scholar.sun.ac.za . The easiest way to find your thesis is to do an Author search. Please share your thesis with others by forwarding the link, and also include the link as part of your CV, web page etc.

Open Access journals accredited by the DHET

In order to increase the visibility of SU research output and to have a greater impact, we would like to encourage you to publish in Open Access journals. For your convenience, the OA journals have been highlighted on the DHET list, impact factors have been added, as well as URL’s, SCImago journal rankings, ISI information, and many more. Click here to view the list.

Submission period for December 2012 graduation: 30 April – 29 November 2012

For those who already want to start nominating students for the December graduation period – you can start nominating students from 30 April 2011. The last date is 29 November 2012.

Geluk aan al die Maart 2012 gegradueerdes!

Namens SUNScholar, baie geluk aan al die studieleiers/promotors en gegradueerdes met die pas afgelope gradeplegtigheid! 518 tesisse/verhandelings is opgelaai – die grootste getal nog in die geskiedenis van SUNScholar!

Jou tesis/verhandeling is beskikbaar vanaf http://scholar.sun.ac.za . Die maklikste manier is om ‘n Outeursoektog te doen. Deel jou tesis/verhandeling met ander deur die skakel aan te stuur, die skakel in jou CV in te sluit, op jou persoonlike webbladsy, ens.

Oop Toegang tydskrifte geakrediteer deur die DHOO (DHET)

Ons wil almal graag aanmoedig om in Oop Toegang tydskrifte te publiseer, en sodoende nie sigbaarheid van die navorsing en die gevolglike impak daarvan te verhoog. Vir almal se gerief is die Oop Toegangtydskrifte op die DHOO-lys groen ingekleur, impakfaktore is aangedui, sowel as URL’s, SCImago posisionerings van tydskrifte, ISI inligting, en nog baie meer. Kliek hier om na die lys te kyk.

Oplaai van tesisse met die oog op die Desember 2012 gradeplegtigheid: 30 April – 29 November 2012

Vir almal wat reeds studente wil begin nomineer met die oog op die Desember –gradeplegtigheid – die stelsel sal vanaf 30 April beskikbaar wees. Die laaste datum is 29 November 2012.

We are very proud to announce that SUNScholar has been ranked as the 165th repository out of 1 200+ repositories internationally! Well done to all who have contributed to this huge achievemnet. Our previous position (July 2011) was 419, and we have therefore jumped 254 positions! Visit http://repositories.webometrics.info/ for more info.

March 2012 graduation

Thanks to all who are working very hard in nominating students and uploading theses! Guidelines are available at http://library.sun.ac.za/English/howdoi/Pages/Submit-my-thesis-online.aspx

The last day for submission is 14 March 2012. Inquiries: Paulette Talliard E-mail: scholar@sun.ac.za Tel.: 021 808 9046

SUNScholar statistics

Please have a look at usage of individual items. The top 10 items at this stage:

SUNJournals

Journals hosted by SU are growing on a monthly basis. If you are interested in hosting your journal online with us, please visit http://library.sun.ac.za/English/search/Pages/sunjournals.aspx

Kind regards

Ina (on behalf of the SUNScholar Team)

If you are a researcher, please register and obtain your unique ResearcherID! www.researcherid.com

More than ever, research is a collaborative effort. You need to know what your colleagues are working on and of course, you want your work to be highly visible and accessible as well. ResearcherID is a new tool that promotes this vital communication and awareness among the global research community.

A unique identifier

When you register, you are assigned a unique ID number that expressly associates you with your published works, regardless of any possible nomenclature variations or institutional affiliation changes. Unique identifiers allow everyone who accesses ResearcherID to easily find a specific author’s work, avoiding the common problem of author misidentification.

A unique profile

What would you like others to know about you and your work? It’s up to you!  When you register on ResearcherID.com, you create and manage your own profile and publication list. This is the information others will see when they are seeking relevant citations, collaborators, speakers, reviewers, and more.

And unique metrics

Plus you can calculate personal metrics based on Web of Science items in your publication list.  And our exciting new “Labs” environment enables you to visually explore your collaboration and citation networks, and promote your work by linking directly to your ResearcherID profile from almost any online environment.

ResearcherID  is easy to use and can be accessed by the worldwide global community. But only registered members will have their information available for searching, linking, and tracking.

If you have any questions about the registration process, please contact the Thomson Reuters Scientific support team (http://science.thomsonreuters.com/support/). Please note that the sending email address cannot accept replies.

* Although ResearcherID.com is accessible from any computer, features integrated with ISI Web of Knowledge require you to be on an authenticated computer.

Welcome back, and we hope that all will have a very productive 2012!

The Library and Information Service is currently in the process to change to a new web page (currently available in beta mode), and the guidelines for the electronic submission of theses/dissertations are now available from the following address:

http://library.sun.ac.za/English/howdoi/Pages/Submit-my-thesis-online.aspx

Please take note of the following:

–          Please don’t let students add signatures to their documents.

–          This submission is only for students graduating during March 2012. Please do not nominate students that will only graduate during December 2012.

–          The last date for the electronic submission of the final document is: 14 March 2012.

–          The library does not require any printed copies.

–          If an embargo applies to a thesis/dissertation, please communicate it to you Faculty secretary, who will forward the requests to Senate for approval.

Please contact us in case you experience problems at any stage during this process. We are looking forward to work with you during this coming year!