Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:
New IR at Central University of Technology, Free State, SA
Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories
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.
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)
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
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