Browsing by Author "Goodier, Sarah"

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    Academics' online presence: a four-step guide to taking control of your visibility
    (2014) Goodier, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura
    These Guidelines take academics through a four step process to improving their online presence, and taking charge of their online visibility. Step 1 - ‘Assess yourself' reviews ways to assess existing general online presence, and monitor it in future. Step 2 - ‘Your profile as an individual' - helps academics decide on a strategy for their digital footprint. Step 3 -‘Improving the availability of your output' suggests how to share and make scholarly outputs (including research, teaching and non-traditional outputs) as available and discoverable as possible. Step 4 - ‘Communicating and interacting' reviews additional strategies and tools for communicating with colleagues and interacting with those with shared interests. This resource can be used as a teaching aid or part of workshop training for academics.
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    Academics' online presence: Assessing and shaping your online visibility
    (2012-10) Goodier, Sarah
    In our digital world, if you use the web, you have an online presence. And academics are no exception. Universities have webpages profiling their staff. Academic networks, like LinkedIn, Academia.edu and more, are used by researchers around the globe to keep in contact with colleagues and collaborators. And social media are everywhere you turn. As an academic, you want your research outputs to be found and read. Making a difference and having an influence is almost a job requirement. Nowadays, the expectation is that you can be found online. So, what can you do to be aware of how you appear online? And, what can you do to increase your visibility? This will be a session for academics wishing to find out how they can review their existing digital footprints and shadows, make decisions about what kind of online presence they would like and plan how they can achieving it. Several different potential ways of increasing the visibility of themselves, their research and their outputs will be discussed.
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    Accredited Journals Published in South Africa
    (2013-06) Goodier, Sarah
    This spreadsheet lists the South Africa published or co-published journals on the 2013 DHET, ISI and IBSS list (accredited). Whether the journal is open access, with some or all articles freely available online and where (the journal site, African Journal Archive, ScieloSA and Sabinet Open were checked) was also recorded, where possible. Please see the ReadMe in the file for more information.
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    Addressing Academic Profile: New Tools and Services for Boosting Online Visibility
    (2013-10) Goodier, Sarah
    This workshop looked at the online tools and services external to the university that academics use. Also covered was how these tools can feed into the research and scholarly communication cycle as well as, potentially, the institutional assessment and monitoring processes through Altmetrics tools.
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    And that's a wrap: Open Access Week 2013
    (2013-11) Goodier, Sarah; Naidoo, Uvania; Czerniewicz, Laura
    Open Access (OA) Week 2013 came to an end last Friday here at UCT. Instead of the traditional scholar-scholar focus, we focused on scholar-student and scholar-community access with the overall theme this year of access. This was summed up by our panel discussion title: "Out in the cold: accessing scholarly resources beyond the ivory tower". Our events explored what OA is as well as disparities in access to scholarly materials between well-resourced institutions (such as UCT) and organisations or individuals outside of this enabling environment. Some highlights.
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    The case of OpenUCT: Increasing access to UCT's research and teaching outputs
    (2013-07) Goodier, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura
    This is a print version of our ePoster presented at the 5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship & Curation, held in Durban from 26 to 28 July 2013. The print version presents a slightly more detailed look at our online presence work with 16 UCT academics.
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    The case of OpenUCT: Increasing access to UCT's research and teaching outputs
    (2013-06) Goodier, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura
    OpenUCT's ePoster submission to the 5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship and Curation (ADSC5), held in Durban (26 -- 28 June 2013). That the research and teaching output of universities is largely hidden is well documented. Ironically the rise of open access policies in the global north (see http://sparceurope.org/analysis-of-funder-open-access-policies-around-the-world/ for many policies requiring this) means that there is a danger of academic outputs from the global south become even more invisible and marginalised. Through the OpenUCT Initiative we worked with 16 local academics from a broad range of faculties and departments to improve their online visibility. They are unlikely to be typical of all academics as they were a self-selecting sample, all interested in and to varying extents with an existing online presence. This poster reports on our investigation into their online visibility and the extent to which their outputs were available openly. These academics were searched for on Google Scholar by name and the findings showed that of the average 7.69 relevant outputs per academic in the top ten results, only 2.94 were openly available (i.e. did not require a subscription to access the full text). It also reports on a sub set of the group who explicitly set out to improve the online visibility of their work, and the results of those efforts. In conclusion, drawing on this small study, this poster will discuss some lessons learnt regarding of the curation of academic outputs and the challenges of sharing and promoting content in the online space.
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    Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events
    (PLoS, 2011-12-14) Goodier, Sarah; Cotterill, Fenton; O'Ryan, Colleen; Skelton, Paul; de Wit, Maarten
    The geobiotic history of landscapes can exhibit controls by tectonics over biotic evolution. This causal relationship positions ecologically specialized species as biotic indicators to decipher details of landscape evolution. Phylogeographic statistics that reconstruct spatio-temporal details of evolutionary histories of aquatic species, including fishes, can reveal key events of drainage evolution, notably where geochronological resolution is insufficient. Where geochronological resolution is insufficient, phylogeographic statistics that reconstruct spatio-temporal details of evolutionary histories of aquatic species, notably fishes, can reveal key events of drainage evolution. This study evaluates paleo-environmental causes of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) based phylogeographic records of tigerfishes, genus Hydrocynus, in order to reconstruct their evolutionary history in relation to landscape evolution across Africa. Strong geographical structuring in a cytochrome b (cyt-b) gene phylogeny confirms the established morphological diversity of Hydrocynus and reveals the existence of five previously unknown lineages, with Hydrocynus tanzaniae sister to a clade comprising three previously unknown lineages (Groups B, C and D) and H. vittatus. The dated phylogeny constrains the principal cladogenic events that have structured Hydrocynus diversity from the late Miocene to the Plio-Pleistocene (ca. 0–16 Ma). Phylogeographic tests reveal that the diversity and distribution of Hydrocynus reflects a complex history of vicariance and dispersals, whereby range expansions in particular species testify to changes to drainage basins. Principal divergence events in Hydrocynus have interfaced closely with evolving drainage systems across tropical Africa. Tigerfish evolution is attributed to dominant control by pulses of geotectonism across the African plate. Phylogenetic relationships and divergence estimates among the ten mtDNA lineages illustrates where and when local tectonic events modified Africa's Neogene drainage. Haplotypes shared amongst extant Hydrocynus populations across northern Africa testify to recent dispersals that were facilitated by late Neogene connections across the Nilo-Sahelian drainage. These events in tigerfish evolution concur broadly with available geological evidence and reveal prominent control by the African Rift System, evident in the formative events archived in phylogeographic records of tigerfish.
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    Curation for participation: an eight-step guide to curating open scholarly content
    (2014) Rother, Kyle; Goodier, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura; Nyahodza, Lena
    This Guide is for anyone who finds themselves curating scholarly and educational content at UCT, even if you don’t know that it is called curation. You may be a postgraduate student tasked to put a professor’s research output online, or you may be a communications officer whose tasks have now extended to curating content. You may be a webmaster who finds that you are asked to upload all kinds of resources. You may be employed part­time, or on an ad­hoc basis. You probably won’t have a qualification in digital curation or library science. You will probably have little to no experience in this type of work. But you find yourself in this position. So, what needs to be done?
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    Digital laser research: a "game changer", if you can access it
    (2013-09) Goodier, Sarah
    I followed the news with great excitement this week when the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) unveiled a remarkable advancement – a digital laser! This development has been hailed as a "game-changer" that will have applications and impact many fields. (I won't be delving into the digital laser and how it functions here, but the Mail and Guardian's article on the announcement gives a nice short overview of what the laser is and its huge potential). In short, in terms of science and innovation, the research into the digital laser has paid off and it represents a big win for South Africa.
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    Evaluating the University of Cape Town's Global Citizenship Programme
    (2016) Goodier, Sarah; Goodman, Suki; Field, Carren
    Global citizenship programmes are proliferating around the globe, particularly in the higher education environment. The increase in such programmes has resulted from the need to produce socially - responsible graduates equipped to handle the increasingly global, complex and diverse future. Many global citizenship service learning programmes utilise the engaged and critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire. This pedagogy facilitates students in engaging critically with a variety of perspectives and encourages them to think independently. The University of Cape Town's (UCT's) Global Citizenship Programme: Leading for Social Justice was implemented through the Centre for Higher Education Development at the university from 2010 onwards. This programme utilises Freire's critical pedagogy and provides UCT students with a guided, reflective opportunity to think about themselves in the context of the world and about global issues within their local context. An iterative cycle of learning, action and reflection underpins the each of the programme's three modules. Modules can be taken individually or in any order while a student is registered at UCT. The UCT Global Citizenship Programme is the evaluand for this evaluation. The evaluation process consisted of four parts, namely: theory, design, service utilisation and short - term outcome e valuations. As the programme had not been evaluated previously, the programme stakeholders were interested in working with the evaluator to articulate the programme theory, assessing it for plausibility and determining what design and pedagogy is used in other global citizenship programmes. Service utilisation was also of interest to the stakeholders and a process evaluation focusing on whether the programme is targeting and reaching its intended recipients was also undertaken. In addition, the evaluator explored possible short - term outcomes achieved by the GC2 module, to shed light on whether the programme is producing proximal outcomes with its current approach and pedagogy. This evaluation provided an articulated theoretical grounding for the GC Programme. The theory and design evaluation produced an articulated programme theory, from the perspective of the programme stakeholders, which was modified through consultation with the social science literature. The programme was found to be comparable to the majority of other such programmes in terms of its overarching design and pedagogy. The blended - learning approach in the GC Programme was found to be a unique feature compared with other global citizenship programmes. The process evaluation of the service utilisation found that the programme reaches a small proportion of its envisioned target population, despite two of the three modules having reached their maximum class size (~100 students). This is due to the current broad definition of the target population used, which effectively includes all UCT students. Females and students from the Commerce and Humanities faculties are over - represented in the programme when compared to the general UCT student population. A word cloud analysis for the short - term outcome e valuation indicated that it is possible that the programme participants may be achieving the outcomes for GC2. Due to the fact that there is limited evaluation research in the area of global citizenship programmes, this study makes a contribution to this research and evaluation area. The recommendations suggested in this study provide workable improvements that the GC Programme staff could make to this largely sound and popular programme. By taking, in particular, the recommended steps to measure outcomes, the GC Programme could provide a much stronger case for the impact of this well - conceived programme on UCT's students.
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    Evolution of the African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) : phylogeographic insights into drainage evolution
    (2010) Goodier, Sarah; O'Ryan, Colleen; Cotterill, Woody
    Aquatic species,notably fish, can reveal details of drainage evolution, especially where their evolutionary relationships can be reconstructed using phylogeographic methods. In this study, the mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity of the characiform genus, Hydrocynus, which is widespread across tropical Africa, is reconstructed using a phylogenetic framework and divergences are dated using the cytochrome b (cyt) region.
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    International recognition for UCT Open Educational Resources: Dr Gina Ziervogel wins OpenCourseWare Excellence Award
    (2012-06) Goodier, Sarah
    We here at OpenUCT and the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) are proud to announce that going online with materials from one of her courses has won Dr Gina Ziervogel, a lecturer in the Environmental and Geographical Sciences Department here at UCT, an OpenCourseWare Excellence Award!
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    A look at open access in South Africa: A case study of researchers’ publishing practices
    (2015-09-29) Goodier, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura
    This poster presents a case study of journal publishing at one South African university (the University of Cape Town) to identify existing journal publishing practices in terms of open access. This case provides the springboard for considering the implications – both positive and negative – of global open access trends for South African – and other – research and researchers. The empirical analysis shows the top 20 journals in which 50% of the research output is published, and reviews the nature, costs and licensing of those journals. The paper study concludes that academics’ engagement with open access and scholarly communication debates is in their interests as global networked researchers whose virtual identities and online scholarship are now a critical aspect of their professional engagement.
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    No evidence for selection of HIV-1 with enhanced Gag-Protease or Nef function among breakthrough infections in the CAPRISA 004 tenofovir microbicide trial
    (Public Library of Science, 2013) Chopera, Denis R; Mann, Jaclyn K; Mwimanzi, Philip; Omarjee, Saleha; Kuang, Xiaomei T; Ndabambi, Nonkululeko; Goodier, Sarah; Martin, Eric; Naranbhai, Vivek; Karim, Salim Abdool
    BACKGROUND: Use of antiretroviral-based microbicides for HIV-1 prophylaxis could introduce a transmission barrier that inadvertently facilitates the selection of fitter viral variants among incident infections. To investigate this, we assessed the in vitro function of gag-protease and nef sequences from participants who acquired HIV-1 during the CAPRISA 004 1% tenofovir microbicide gel trial. Methods and RESULTS: We isolated the earliest available gag-protease and nef gene sequences from 83 individuals and examined their in vitro function using recombinant viral replication capacity assays and surface protein downregulation assays, respectively. No major phylogenetic clustering and no significant differences in gag-protease or nef function were observed in participants who received tenofovir gel versus placebo gel prophylaxis. CONCLUSION: Results indicate that the partial protective effects of 1% tenofovir gel use in the CAPRISA 004 trial were not offset by selection of transmitted/early HIV-1 variants with enhanced Gag-Protease or Nef fitness.
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    Open Access Accredited Journals in South Africa: they do exist
    (2013-05) Goodier, Sarah
    Over the last few months I have been working with a digital deluge of spreadsheets and data. The purpose of this work was to put together a list of the accredited open access journals published in South Africa. By open access, I mean journals that are free to view and/or download and have an open license, usually a creative commons license. I also looked for those accredited journals which are available for users to read freely, but don't have an open license (in this case the publisher usually keeps the copyright and re-use is not allowed without permission from them).
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    Open access in South Africa: A case study and reflections
    (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2014-09-22) Czerniewicz, Laura; Goodier, Sarah
    In this paper, we locate open access in the South African higher education research context where it is, distinctively, not shaped by the policy frameworks that are profoundly changing research dissemination behaviour in other parts of the world. We define open access and account for its rise by two quite different routes. We then present a case study of journal publishing at one South African university to identify existing journal publishing practices in terms of open access. This case provides the springboard for considering the implications – both positive and negative – of global open access trends for South African – and other – research and researchers. We argue that academics’ engagement with open access and scholarly communication debates is in their interests as global networked researchers whose virtual identities and online scholarship are now a critical aspect of their professional engagement.
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    Open access medical textbooks: sharing knowledge globally
    (2014-05) Goodier, Sarah
    When you visit a medical specialist, you trust that he or she is keeping up with cutting edge knowledge in the field to provide you with the best medical care possible. However, the cost of new reference resources and the latest textbooks can be prohibitively high, especially in developing countries where a new textbook may cost ~2 months' salary. Fortunately for otolaryngologists (the medical specialists focussing on diseases of the ear, nose and throat – ENTs for short), two free, high quality textbooks are available online. UCT's Prof Johan Fagan, Head of the Division of Otolaryngology has taken the initiative to develop freely available, high quality reference resources for ENTs.
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    Open Access Options: Journals Creative commons licensed, accredited & published or co-published in South Africa (June 2013)
    (2013-06) Goodier, Sarah
    This interactive graphic shows the creative commons licensed, 2013 accredited journals that are published or co-published in South Africa.
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    Open Access Options: Journals; Some or all volumes freely available online, accredited & published or co-published in South Africa (June 2013)
    (2013-06) Goodier, Sarah
    This interactive graphic shows the 2013 accredited journals that are published or co-published in South Africa which have some or all of their articles freely available online - either through the journal site, the African Journal Archive, ScieloSA and/or Sabinet Open.