Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct:

The Impact of Social Media on Plagiarism

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/06/04/the-impact-of-social-media-on-plagiarism/

Why Plagiarism Will Never Go Away…

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/05/07/why-plagiarism-will-never-go-away/

 

Data and Data Management:

Open data: what is it and why are people so scared of it?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/open-data-what-is-it-and-why-are-people-so-scared-of-it-10405636.html

Researchers Open Repository for ‘Dark Data’

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/scientists-open-repository-for-dark-data/57125

How re-analysing the data of scientific research can change the findings

http://theconversation.com/how-re-analysing-the-data-of-scientific-research-can-change-the-findings-44926

 

Conference Alerts:

Next Generation Learning: Open & Distance Learning-- The Virtual University Forum

13 – 14 August 2015

HackleBrooke Conference Centre - Johannesburg

For information and registration:  email sandra@melrosetraining.co.za

 

PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2015 - Building Open Infrastructure and Programs for Digital Humanities, Publishing, and Libraries

11-14 August 20115, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, Canada

http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015

 

IFLA 2015 Pre-Conference in Pretoria, South Africa

Newspaper e-publishing trends - the stewardship role of libraries

12-13 August  2015, Dinokeng Game Reserve, Pretoria, South Africa

http://www.nlsa.ac.za/ifla2015/index.php

 

IFLA Section of Library Theory and Research 2015 Satellite Conference

Digital Preservation as a Site of Contestation: National Heritage, Memory, Politics and Power -- Beyond Technology and Management

12-13 August 2015 - University of the Western Cape, Cape Town

http://www.uwc.ac.za/Faculties/ART/Centre-for-Humanities-Research/IFLA/Pages/Programme.aspx

UWC/CHELSA Seminar

14 August 2015 – University of the Western Cape, Cape Town

For more information: email jdenton@uwc.ac.za

 

3rd Annual Peer Review & Research Publishing Summit 2015 - Improving the Quality & Accessibility of African Research

19, 20 & 21 August 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa

For more information, email:  lubisih@amc-intsa.com

 

Disability Trade & Lifestyle Expo Conference

17-19 September 2015 – Cape Town, South Africa

For information, contact: bettemc@ingadaevents.co.za

 

Call for Papers:

Library Spaces – Digital and Real”, the 6th Triennial Library Congress

14 to 17 March 2016 in Leipzig, Germany

http://www.bid-kongress-leipzig.de/t3/fileadmin/pdfs_downloads/CfP_Kongress_2016_englisch.pdf

 

Call for Chapter Proposals:

Handbook of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Research in Developing Nations - edited by Prof. Patrick Ngulube

Proposal Submission Deadline – 31 July 2015.

For information contact:  Patrick Ngulube at Ngulup@unisa.ac.za