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Academic spring – open access policies take the world by storm

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Apr 2012 If we really want to emulate the best practices of global scholarly publishing it is now very clear that open access publishing is something that we have to embrace. This is doubly good news, because open access offers African researchers, ... Read more c b a
Access to Africa's knowledge: publishing development research and measuring value

Author: Gray, Eve Date: 2010 This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organisations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication. What ... Read more c b a
Access to knowledge – the times they are a'changing

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Sep 2011 In this blog I will try to track the broad landscape of change and will then engage with the different threads in a series of blogs, to spell out what I think the implications are for South Africa, Africa and the developing world. What I fear ... Read more c b a
Access to learning resources in Post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Gray, Eve ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 01 May 2018 Any inquiry into how university students get the learning resources they need for their education in post-apartheid South Africa must deal with three interrelated subjects: the legacy of apartheid, which continues to structure educational ... Read more c b n
Beyond the repository? The CERN Innovation in Scholarly Publishing Workshop (OAI7). June 22-24 2011

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Jul 2011 The road map needs to include technology solutions for linking wider data sets to scholarly publications; the formulation of the arguments needed get support for emerging models of scholarly publication; and expanded metrics for measuring the ... Read more c b a
Case study: Feminist Africa

Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a journal, Feminist Africa, in the context of an academic department at the University of Cape Town. The journal is of particular interest, because, being situated in the African ... Read more c b n a
Case study: South African Review of Sociology

Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a scholarly society journal, the South African Review of Sociology, in a context in which the Scientific Editor is a senior member of an academic department at the University of ... Read more c b n a
Case study: UCT Press

Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 31 Jul 2009 The University of Cape Town (UCT) Press was established in 1994. The modern-day university press presents an interesting mix of challenges and conflicting agendas. The OpeningScholarship project chose UCT Press as a subject for case study in ... Read more c b n a
The Changing Journals Landscape

Author: Gray, Eve ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Oct 2011 Journals, exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge in a community of scholars are all important in effective communication with a wider audience. The journal crisis – increasing cost of publishing and subscribing - is a growing issue for ... Read more c b a
Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Gray, Eve Date: 2009 Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully understood. In an extraordinary development, increasing numbers of traditional and ... Read more c b n d
Delivering a research mission in an ICT-mediated information age: The case of the University of Cape Town

Author: Gray, Eve Date: 31 Aug 2009 This report provides an overview of policies, practices and infrastructure at the University of Cape Town (UCT) related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for research publication. The report will primarily be ... Read more c b n a
Demystifying Open Access

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Gray, Eve Date: Oct 2011 This presentation provides the fundamentals about open access as part of the broader open agenda and locating it within changing scholarly communication and new forms of research dissemination. Adds a developing country perspective. Read more c b a
From the IPA 2012 Congress to the Finch Report – publishers and open access

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Jul 2012 The Finch Commission report was released in the UK on 18 June. Entitled ‘Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications', this report, by an independent working group headed by Dame Janet Finch, ... Read more c b a
Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Feb 2012 This Green Paper, launched by the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande in January 2012, identifies the key challenges facing South African higher education and sets out a path for overcoming these obstacles. ... Read more c b a
International environmental scan of the use of ICTs for community engagement in higher education

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle ; Steenkamp-Fonseca, Raymond Date: 28 Feb 2009 This position paper provides a brief overview of how higher education institutions (HEIs) internationally are using ICTs to enhance their engagement with the broader community and highlights some applications which could be useful for South ... Read more c b n a
Lies, damned lies… and metrics

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Nov 2011 Two contradictory things are happening side by side in discussion of scholarly publishing right now. On the one hand, the discourse of open access – seeking to remedy the failures of the current system – bases itself overwhelmingly on the ... Read more c b a
National environmental scan of South African scholarly publishing

Author: Gray, Eve Date: 30 Apr 2009 Undertaken as part of the OpeningScholarship project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), this position paper reviews the national environment for the use of ICTs for research dissemination and publication in the South African higher education ... Read more c b n a
OER in the mainstream – South Africa takes a leap into OER policy

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Jan 2012 2012 looks as if it might be the year that OER and open access reach the mainstream, globally and in South Africa. In the last few months in South Africa, the national department responsible for schools had announced the take-up of a major ... Read more c b a
Open access in Africa – green and gold, the impact factor, ‘mainstream' and ‘local' research

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Sep 2012 I have been following the debate raging in the UK and beyond about whether the Finch Commission and the Research Councils UK - and then the EC with a slightly different emphasis – were right in opting for support for the ‘gold route' of open ... Read more c b a
Open Everything at UCT Open Education Week

Author: Gray, Eve Date: Mar 2012 The first global Open Education Week took place from 5-10 March. One of the questions that I found myself asking when I was asked to participate in some of the UCT events was ‘What is open education?' Is it the use of OER – putting course ... Read more c b a