Presented at the 8th Southern African Online Information Meeting, presented by the Southern African Online User Group, SLIS and OSALL, 21 - 23 June 2005, CSIR, Pretoria.
Current state of SA licensing - SASLI's status - Current state of SA institutional repositories - Where are we heading? - How will the eResearch support service help
The institutional open access mandate is widely regarded as a necessary tool to realise the potential of open access, institutional repositories and online scholarly communication. Advocating for a mandate can be a challenge: ...
This presentation provides a basic introduction to the concept of Open Access and showcases the important library role players in the implementation process: the repository team, information specialists, cataloguers and ...
This presentation provides an overview of Open access and showcases the implementation of Open access at the University of Pretoria and the possible benefits for researchers. It also addresses some of the concerns that ...
Text version of a presentation delivered at the 10th International "Law via the Internet" Conference.
Although there are many law journals and newsletters published in South Africa this paper refers specifically to academic ...
The potential of the excellent combination of open access and the institutional repository needs an open access mandate to realise its potential. This presentation describes an open access mandate, why it is needed, the ...
The scholarly communication landscape went through significant changes, since the first scientific journal was published in 1665. With the international movement to open science and open access publishing, traditional ...
This presentation describes the two Open access routes to editors - the gold route (publishing in Open Access journals) and the green route (self-archiving by authors in an institutional repository) as well as the implications ...
An overview of Open access and its two routes is given. It highlights South African achievements in creating Open access to scholarly output and discusses practical implementation strategies that the Open scholarship office ...
This presentation gives an overview of what is meant with Open Data and FAIR Data. Firstly it lists the key features of Open Data. This is then followed by a list of reasons why people do not want to make their data open, ...
This presentation was prepared for the Open Access Repositories Workshop on request of eIFL.net and presented at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
Paper presented as part of the “African Digital Scholarship & Curation Conference”, 12-14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the ...
This poster was presented at the 12th ELPUB Conference, Toronto, Canada June 25-27 2008 with the theme: Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0.
openUP houses the e-print collection ...
This presentation gives an overview of the Open scholarship strategy of the University of Pretoria - determining factors in its development, history, characteristics, goals as well as successes.
Five critical success factors for open scholarship in a university setting are discussed with reference to the world of sports and games:
1. Open Scholarship needs a lot of buy-in from many role players.
2. Open access ...
This presentation gives an overview of the Open Access movement, the costs of the "Big deal" and explains the two roads to Open Access : Open Access repositories (green route) and Open Access journals (gold route). Other ...