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 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 ...
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.
In 1998 the University of Pretoria subscribed to Science Direct after a year of experimenting with online journals and becoming aware of its potential impact on scholarly communication. It led to an ambitious project for ...
The presentation is an introduction to the University of Pretoria's electronic theses and dissertations operation (UPeTD - http://upetd.up.ac.za) which kicked off in 2000. In 2003 the experimental phase came to an end, ...
This presentation gives an overview of the policies for the submission of electronic theses and dissertations and journal articles at the University of Pretoria.