Browsing by Subject "online presence"

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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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    Open access in South Africa: a case study and reflections
    (2014) 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.