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Open Access Week 2012: OpenUCT's events – a recap

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Shaikh, Shihaam ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Oct 2012 Last Friday, 26 October, marked the end of Open Access Week 2012. This international event, which turned six this year, aims to inform researchers, academics and students about open access and inspire them to share not only this knowledge ... Read more c b a
Open Education - A Local Issue

Author: Chetty, Rulisha ; Cox, Glenda ; Czerniewicz, Laura ; Goodier, Sarah ; Shaikh, Shihaam ; Stent, Stacey Date: Jun 2012 This video shows how open education matters by providing a local perspective on a global issue through three authentic disciplinary examples of multilingual resources at the University of Cape Town. (Please note: Music (used with permission) ... Read more c b
Open science & development goals: round up & the way forward

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Sep 2013 Open science and development were the two key points that brought together a diverse group of over 20 scientists, methodological experts and researchers last week at the University of Cape Town. From the 12–13 September, these experts in ... Read more c b a
Open science & development goals: shaping research questions

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Sep 2013 What do we include in our definition of open science? And what is meant by development? Two key questions when you're discussing open science for development, as we were yesterday on day one of the IDRC OKFN-OpenUCT Open Science for Development ... Read more c b a
OpenUCT 2013 Review

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Dec 2013 2013 was a memorable year of action, progress, delays, excitement and activity. The year ended on a high with the university's "Draft proposal for an Open Access Policy at UCT for taking forward open scholarship and open education as part of ... Read more c b a
OpenUCT at the ADSC5 Conference

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Jul 2013 The 5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship & Curation 2013 (ADSC5) took place at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, on 26 – 28 June 2013. The conference was a landmark occasion for the region, as it brought ... Read more c b a
OpenUCT's Guidelines on Academics' Online Presence Released

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Dec 2012 After successfully presenting several seminars about online visibility and working with a number of academics at UCT to take control of their online presence, the OpenUCT team has decided to develop a Guidelines document which might be useful ... Read more c b a
Putting ‘Citizen' in ‘Citizen Science': You Can Help Biodiversity!

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Feb 2014 If you're interested in plants and animals, have a camera/camera phone and want to contribute to conservation efforts, you're in luck. You (yes, YOU!) can help scientists map the current locations of a wide variety of organisms in and around ... Read more c b a
Scholarly outputs: online and discoverable - not always accessible

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Jan 2013 Academics have (largely) come to understand that their work being online is necessary. The online space provides an environment where work can be shared and read as well as being a platform through which it can reach those who need it. This ... Read more c b a
Southern knowledge online? Climate change research discoverability and communication practices

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Goodier, Sarah ; Morrell, Robert Date: 01 Jan 2016 The networked age promises global digital cultures with flattened power relations, given the affordances of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to collapse distance, enable easier cross-country collaborations and create new ... Read more c b
Starting to assess the broader impact of your published work

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: May 2013 Academics, researchers and postgrad students everywhere know the drill of publishing an article: do the research, write the paper, submit it to a journal (or several, after it's initially rejected) and after dealing with reviewer comments and ... Read more c b a
Tracking the money for Open Educational Resources in South African basic education: What we don't know

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: 08 Sep 2017 Limited research has been done to date on the extent of public funding of Open Educational Resources (OER) within basic education (K-12 equivalent) in South Africa. As claims have been made about the potential cost reductions that come with ... Read more c b
Tracking the Money for Open Educational Resources in South African Basic Education: What We Don't Know

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: 01 Jun 2017 Limited research has been done to date on the extent of public funding of Open Educational Resources (OER) within basic education (K-12 equivalent) in South Africa. As claims have been made about the potential cost reductions that come with ... Read more c b
Utilization focused evaluation: an introduction (Part 1)

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: 03 Oct 2014 Introductory slides on Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) presented to the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) team (http://roer4d.org/) on 22 September 2014 as part of the project's evaluation process. UFE is ... Read more c b a
Visibility, impact & online presence for the developing science researcher (MSc, PhD, Postdoc)

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Aug 2013 Presented during a Write Science course session focused on building a professional online presence as a researcher, this short piece introduced the students to the concept of online presence. A few tools that can help to represent researchers ... Read more c b a
A week of open access conferencing: Part 1

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Nov 2012 As an OpenUCT intern I was excited to attend my first major Open Access conferences - Open Access Africa and Berlin 10. It was the first chance I have had to hear a wide range of perspective and views from the speakers and participants, ... Read more c b a
A week of open access conferencing: Part 2

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Nov 2012 "It's not communism, it's only open access", "There are two open access communities: the uploaders and the downloaders" and "Pick your favourite boundary. Push it". These were just three of the provocative comments made at the recent Berlin ... Read more c b a
Why universities should care about Altmetrics

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Apr 2014 Working in a digital and increasingly connected environment has led to the rise of what has become known as the digital scholar: a "highly connected scholar, creating multimedia outputs and sharing these with a global network of peers" (Weller ... Read more c b a