Please note:  I will be on leave from 14 December 2012 until 7 January 2013.  There will be no newsletters during this time.   I hope you have found this newsletter helpful.  If you have any positive feedback, please email Denise.Nicholson@wits.ac.za.  

I wish you a wonderful Christmas/festive season and hope you have a great New Year.  Kind regards, Denise

 

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Most Read Articles in November 2012  (IFLA Journal)

http://ifl.sagepub.com/reports/most-read

African Portal
http://www.africaportal.org/library

Open Access Research Can Save Lives

http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-to-Research-Can/136065/

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science (Vol 78, No 1 (2012))(OA)

http://sajlis.journals.ac.za/pub

Wits Commits to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access (photos, presentations)

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/content.php?pid=308241&sid=3373247

Finch access plan unlikely to fly across the Atlantic

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422015&c=1

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/93

Open access to knowledge will boost Africa’s development

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20121120105009782

Planting the green seeds for a golden harvest: Comments and clarifications on “Going for Gold”

http://www.cfses.com/projects/Going%20for%20Gold%20-%20Comment%20and%20Clarification%20%28Houghton%20and%20Swan%29.pdf

Maximising the Impacts of Your Research: A Handbook for Social Scientists: Consultation Draft 3. MAXIMIZING THE IMPACTS OF YOUR

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/LSEPublicPolicy/Docs/LSE_Impact_Handbook_April_2011.pdf

 

Digital Curation:

Comparison of Curation Platforms

http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/curation-platforms-amplify-knowledge-plaza-storify

 

Internet, Mobile Technologies & Social Media

The End of the Smartphone Era is Coming

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-end-of-the-smartphone-era-is-coming-2012-11

Top 20 Social Networks [INFOGRAPHIC]

http://ijustdid.org/2012/11/top-social-networks/

The New Wave Report (South Africa)

http://www.networksociety.co.za/and http://www.networksociety.co.za/Infographics

Global Internet User Survey Reveals Attitudes, Usage and Behavior

https://www.internetsociety.org/news/global-internet-user-survey-reveals-attitudes-usage-and-behavior

Wikimedia Strategic Plan February 2011 - A collaborative vision for the movement through 2015

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/c/c0/WMF_StrategicPlan2011_spreads.pdf