Open Access @ Stellenbosch University

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Kollegas

Tesisse/Proefskrifte Desember 2011

Soos voorheen genoem is die stelsel oop, en kan almal voortgaan om studente te nomineer om hul tesisse/proefskrifte op te laai met die oog op die Des. 2011 gradeplegtigheid. Indien die embargo vir langer as twee jaar geld, moet u asb. via u Fakulteitsekretaris werk om toestemming by die Senaat te verkry.

Gaan kyk gerus wat is reeds beskikbaar onder u dept. se naam by http://scholar.sun.ac.za. Riglyne vir die oplaai van tesisse/proefskrifte is beskikbaar by: http://library.sun.ac.za/etd/afr/index.htm

Kontak ons ook enige tyd as ons met enigiets behulpsaam kan wees om die proses vir u nog makliker te maak.

Navorsingsartikels

Ons wil graag alle SU navorsingsartikels sentraal op SUNScholar bewaar. Help asb. deur dit elektronies te stuur aan Paulette Talliard by plt@sun.ac.za Ons verkies die “post-print” – m.a.w. net voor die artikel deur die uitgewer gepubliseer word. Baie dankie by voorbaat!

CutePDF

Om ‘n tesis/proefskrif na pdf te verander kan sagteware soos CutePDF of Adobe Acrobat gebruik word. CutePDF is gratis beskikbaar vir aflaai vanaf die “Freedom Toaster” binne die Leersentrum in die Biblioteek.

Innoverende toepassings en SUNScholar

Skakels tussen SUNScholar en die Skool vir Publieke Leierskap

Gaan kyk gerus hoe innoverend Jennifer Saunders skakels na SUNScholar geskep het vanaf profielbladsye vir navorsers verbonde aan die Skool. Klik hier vir voorbeelde.

DOMUS musiekskakels
Kyk gerus hoe Musiek (Santie de Jongh) skakels na SUNScholar bou. Klik hier om na musieksnitte te luister.

Antarctic Legacy Projek

Baie geluk aan die Sentrum vir Indringerbiologie wat op 28 Julie 2011 hul projek bekendgestel het! Vir meer inligting, klik hier.

Oop Toegang tot Navorsingsinligting 26 Oktober 2011 13:00 –

Merk solank hierdie dag in u dagboek af, want ons beplan om internasionale sowel as plaaslike eksperts te betrek by hierdie groot geleentheid om sodoende al u vrae oor oop toegang, impakfaktore, kopiereg, ‘peer-review’, en nog baie meer te beantwoord. Ons beplan ook om oop toegang wetenskaplike tydskrifte wat deur SU gehuisves word bekend te stel! Meer inligting by http://oa.sun.ac.za

Colleagues

Theses/Dissertations December 2011

The system is now open as mentioned before, and you are welcome to continue nominating your students to submit their theses/dissertations for the December 2011 graduation ceremony. To restrict access for a period longer than two years, please apply for consent from Senate via the Faculty Secretary.

Also visit SUNScholar and view research output by your dept.: http://scholar.sun.ac.za. Guidelines for the submission of theses/dissertations are available at: http://library.sun.ac.za/etd/index.htm

Please feel free to contact us at any stage for assistance regarding the process.

Research articles

We would like to digitally preserve all research articles by SU researchers on SUNScholar. Please send copies of all your post-prints to  Paulette Talliard at plt@sun.ac.za Many thanks in advance!

CutePDF

Pdf’s can be generated by using software such as CutePDF or Adobe Acrobat. CutePDF can be downloaded free of charge from the “Freedom Toaster” inside the Learning Commons, Library.

Innovative uses and SUNScholar

Links between SUNScholar and the School for Public Leadership

Links were created between researcher profile pages and SUNScholar thanks to Jennifer Saunders. Click for examples.

DOMUS music links
Music (Santie de Jongh) has created links to sound files on SUNScholar. Click to listen to these sound files.

Antarctic Legacy Project

Congratulations to the Centre for Invasion Biology for launching their project on 28 July 2011! For more information, click here.

Open Access to Research Information 26 October 2011 13:00 –

This is an important date in our calendar, and this year we plan to have two international and two local experts to address all your concerns re open access, copyright, impact factors, peer-review, and many more. We also plan to launch open access scholarly journals to be hosted by SU! More information available at http://oa.sun.ac.za

During the past 5 years, there was a significant growth in libraries implementing institutional repositories, and it is still growing (http://www.opendoar.org ). Institutional repositories have been implemented to digitally preserve and archive the research assets of individual institutions, but also to provide open access to research conducted by members of the research communities from these institutions. The Open Access and Open Source Software movements have gained rapid momentum world over. Many institutions and organizations are setting up open access repositories using open source software, following open standards. There are a number of free open source software products available for developing digital libraries, and DSpace (http://www.dspace.org ) is one of the most popular software developed jointly by MIT Libraries and HP labs. DSpace is a digital asset management system. It helps create, index and retrieve various forms of digital content. DSpace is adaptable to different community needs. Interoperability between systems is built-in and it adheres to international standards for metadata.
This workshop is planned to meet the growing interest in implementing repositories using DSpace open source software, and to assist institutions who haven’t implemented or are in the early stages of implementing an institutional repository.

More info: http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011/workshops

http://www.berlin9.org/news/11-0801.shtml

SUNScholar almost made the biggest jump forward, according to an analysis conducted by @mire. Thanks to all who work on and promote SUNScholar on a daily basis.

Visit the top institutional repositories, or view a comparison of SA repositories.

Analysis by Bram Luyten, @mire.

The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme in collaboration with OpenUCT and the UCT Research Office invite you to a seminar and discussion with Dr Leslie Chan of the University of Toronto, a leading global specialist in open access publishing. The seminar will focus on global trends in new modes of scholarly communication and on the interface with open educational approaches.

Dr Chan is Program Supervisor for the International Development Studies Program at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, and the Director of Bioline International, a not-for-profit publisher that provides open access to quality journals published in the developing world. He participated in the drafting and was a co-signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and is a co-author of OpenOasis, the standard reference on open access policy and implementation.

Dr Chan serves on the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme Advisory Panel and is committed to engaging in new modes of scholarly publishing, human capacity building and international cooperation.

Date: Friday 5 August 2011
Time: 11-1pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Research Office, 2 Rhodes Avenue, Mowbray.
(Parking available at Shoprite rooftop parking. Note that a light lunch will be served.)

This is an open event. Please pass the invitation on to any colleagues who might like to attend. Kindly RSVP to thomas.king@uct.ac.za by Friday 29 July.
For more detail on the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme, see http://www.scaprogramme.org.za/

Phylogeography of the southern African vlei rat, Otomys irroratus, inferred from chromosomal and DNA sequence data/Engelbrecht, Adriaan

A critical-hermeneutical inquiry of schools as learning organisations/Beukes, Cecil Joseph

Investigating candidate genes identified by genome-wide studies of granulomatous diseases in susceptibility to tuberculosis: ANXA11 and the CADM family/ Salie, Muneeb

Investigating the role of CTSZ, MC3R and MC4R in host susceptibility of tuberculosis/ Adams, Lindsey

Investigations of the role of myomegalin in the phosphorylation of cardiac myosin binding protein C/ Uys, Gerrida Mathilda

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a major threat to health in South Africa : intracellular survival after treatment with novel drugs designed against the mycothiol pathway/ Mazorodze, James Hove

Surface modified cross-linked poly(vinyl alcohol)/poly(vinyl pivalate) suspension particles/ D Aguiar, Donna-Leigh

The new ISI Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® has been published (2010). Find the impact factor for a journal (if registered with ISI) by going to Library Databases >> Journal Citation Reports – ISI

Also read:

Impact factors of global health journals – how does your favourite measure up?

Currently African Zoology is the only SUNJournals pilot journal registered with ISI. The impact factor for this journal has increased from:

2009: 0.746
2010: 1.018

Congratulations to Prof Hannes van Wyk and his editorial team!

If any other journals want to go through the process of registering, please visit http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/journal_selection_process/

Research articles on SUNScholar

During the past month we managed to import the bibliographic details of approximately 7 200 articles to SUNScholar. This in an effort to centrally archive and digitally preserve research output by researchers from SU. It is done in collaboration with the publishers.
If you can provide us with the full text of these research articles, it would be highly appreciated. We are specifically interested in the post-print versions. You are most welcome to e-mail it to scholar@sun.ac.za . Many thanks for your help and assisting in populating SUNScholar!

Inaugural addresses

Following the demand, we also archive copies of inaugural addresses on SUNScholar. You are welcome to forward any copies you might have (also available from the Unit for Document Design (Mr Philip du Plesiss E-mail: philipdp@sun.ac.za)) , to scholar@sun.ac.za

Signatures on e-versions of theses/dissertations

Please take note that no signatures are to be added to the electronic versions of theses/dissertations when submitting it to SUNScholar.

A first for SUNScholar! Dissertation with supplementary video

Please visit http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3980

Colleagues

An update re SUNScholar activities.

Scopus export

During the past month we have exported the bibliographic details of approximately 7 200 articles to SUNScholar. We are now in the process of attaching full text to these records and clearing copyright, which will take up quite some time. What is very impressive is that the SUNScholar item comes up first when conducting a Google search for a specific title, after the metadata has been fully edited and because of the way SUNScholar was set up.

If you have access to the post-print (peer-reviewed, and just before being published) of these entries, please feel free to assist us in any way to get hold of the post-print copy. You are welcome to conduct an author search for researchers within your department, to see which of their articles appear in SUNScholar.

The current item count on SUNScholar: 12 486 items

Inet Key to access SUNScholar

Since Google Analytics runs in the background, you need to have your inet-key open when accessing SUNScholar. IT has been made aware of this, and it requires a change in IT policy.

OJS

We are in the process of running a pilot project re hosting SU journals (golden route to open access). 6 Journals form part of this pilot project. Visit http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNJournals for regular updates and more info.

Submission of theses/dissertations for the December 2011 graduation

Can now commence. Closing date: 24 November 2011.

ETD Conference 2011

The Stellenbosch University LIS is co-hosting this international event, together with UCT and the NRF. More info: http://dl.cs.uct.ac.za/conferences/etd2011

Visit by delegates from the University of Ghana

On Tuesday 24 May 2011 we received a visit from the University of Ghana. Presentation on SUNScholar.