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Academics' online presence: a four-step guide to taking control of your visibility

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 2014 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 ... Read more c b a
Academics' online presence: Assessing and shaping your online visibility

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Oct 2012 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 ... Read more c b a
Accredited Journals Published in South Africa

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Jun 2013 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, ... Read more c b a
Addressing Academic Profile: New Tools and Services for Boosting Online Visibility

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Oct 2013 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 ... Read more c b a
And that's a wrap: Open Access Week 2013

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Naidoo, Uvania ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Nov 2013 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 ... Read more c b a
The case of OpenUCT: Increasing access to UCT's research and teaching outputs

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Jul 2013 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 ... Read more c b a
The case of OpenUCT: Increasing access to UCT's research and teaching outputs

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Jun 2013 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 ... Read more c b
Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Cotterill, Fenton ; O'Ryan, Colleen ; Skelton, Paul ; de Wit, Maarten Date: 14 Dec 2011 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 ... Read more c b
Curation for participation: an eight-step guide to curating open scholarly content

Author: Rother, Kyle ; Goodier, Sarah ; Nyahodza, Lena ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 2014 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 ... Read more c b a
Digital laser research: a "game changer", if you can access it

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Sep 2013 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 ... Read more c b a
Evaluating the University of Cape Town's Global Citizenship Programme

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: 2016 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 ... Read more
Evolution of the African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) : phylogeographic insights into drainage evolution

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: 2010 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 ... Read more
International recognition for UCT Open Educational Resources: Dr Gina Ziervogel wins OpenCourseWare Excellence Award

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Jun 2012 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 ... Read more c b a
A look at open access in South Africa: A case study of researchers’ publishing practices

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 29 Sep 2015 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 ... Read more c b
No evidence for selection of HIV-1 with enhanced Gag-Protease or Nef function among breakthrough infections in the CAPRISA 004 tenofovir microbicide trial

Author: Chopera, Denis R ; Mann, Jaclyn K ; Mwimanzi, Philip ; Omarjee, Saleha ; Kuang, Xiaomei T ; Ndabambi, Nonkululeko ; Goodier, Sarah ; Martin, Eric ; Naranbhai, Vivek ; Karim, Salim Abdool Date: 2013 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 ... Read more c b
Open Access Accredited Journals in South Africa: they do exist

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: May 2013 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 ... Read more c b a
Open access in South Africa: A case study and reflections

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Goodier, Sarah Date: 22 Sep 2014 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 ... Read more c b
Open access medical textbooks: sharing knowledge globally

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: May 2014 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 ... Read more c b a
Open Access Options: Journals Creative commons licensed, accredited & published or co-published in South Africa (June 2013)

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Jun 2013 This interactive graphic shows the creative commons licensed, 2013 accredited journals that are published or co-published in South Africa. Read more c b a
Open Access Options: Journals; Some or all volumes freely available online, accredited & published or co-published in South Africa (June 2013)

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Jun 2013 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, ... Read more c b a