Dr Tobias Schonwetter, the legal lead of Creative Commons South Africa, discussed the impact of the Creative Commons licenses on Open Access and what Creative Commons is doing to build an ecosystem of openness. Creative ...
An overview of UPSpace, the Institutional Repository of the University of Pretoria is discussed, including the background, content, workflow and roleplayers involved in UPSpace .
The origins of the Research Libraries Consortium (RLC) and background of the US internship programme are discussed in detail. The differences in the US higher
education system as well as the way in which the roles of ...
The report of the ACRL conference confirmed that the high tech / high touch scenario which guides University of Pretoria's new strategic plan is in line with international thinking. The culture and assertiveness of American ...
The University of Pretoria's Department of Library Services celebrated Open Access Day 27th October 2011. Various students, researchers and library staff members took part in the Open Access competition sponsored by Bookmark ...
Wingfield, Brenda D.; Du Plessis, Andre; Olivier, Elsabe(2011-10-27)
Prof Brenda Wingfield, Professor in Genetics and Deputy-Dean of Reseach and Postgraduate Studies of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences discusses the importance of access to research journals. As developing ...
An overview of global science publishing, the status of scholarly publishing in South Africa including the subscription of and Open Access models of publishing.
Prof Hussein Suleman, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town was the main speaker at this Open Access Seminar. In his presentation he discussed : Arguments against Open Access, the Open ...
Overview of the UPLS refurbishment project in the Merensky II Library as presented at the official opening of the Research Commons and Carnegie Leadership & Training Centre by Prof. Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor & ...
Presentations at an Open Access workshop with the following themes: - What is Open access? An African perspective; - Implementation and advocacy at the University of Pretoria; 3 and Copyright and Open access.