Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

New IR at Central University of Technology, Free State, SA

http://ir.cut.ac.za/

Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories

http://oatd.org

A brief look at the University of Calgary Open Acces Author’s Fund

http://eprints.rclis.org/22801/1/A%20Very%20Brief%20Look%20at%20the%20U%20of%20C%20OAAF.pdf

Impact of Social Sciences - How academics and their research make a difference

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/book/

The academic quantified self: the role of data in building an academic professional sense of self.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/01/13/the-academic-quantified-self/

How Google Has Changed Student Research

http://www.edudemic.com/google-student-research/

 

Scholarly Publishing : Impact Factors/Altmetrics:

Why Universities should care about altmetrics

http://openuct.uct.ac.za/blog/why-universities-should-care-about-altmetrics

Four reasons to stop caring so much about the h-index.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/31/four-reasons-to-stop-caring-so-much-about-the-h-index/

Impact Factors Declared Unfit for Duty

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/05/21/impact-factors-declared-unfit-for-duty/

Twitter and traditional bibliometrics are separate but complementary aspects of research impact.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/01/02/twitter-citations-research-impact-darling/

F1000 Prime (Article Recommendations & Rankings)

http://f1000.com/prime

Altmetrics could enable scholarship from developing countries to receive due recognition.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/03/10/altmetrics-for-developing-regions/

Put your Money where your citations are: a proposal for a new funding system

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/09/04/put-your-money-where-your-citations-are-proposal-funding-system/

 

Digital Curation:

Introduction to Digital Curation

https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalog=UCLXIDC

Digital Curation Resources

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/aecontent.php?pid=227880&sid=1908512

 

Conferences:

IFLA Conference August 2014 – Programme & Proceedings

http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80/programme-and-proceedings

 

6th International Integrity and Plagiarism Conference

16th - 18th June 2014, The Sage Gateshead | UK

http://www.plagiarismconference.org/