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