« The University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries has developed a new continental platform for open access publishing in Africa. The platform allows the African research community to take ownership of creating and sharing its own scholarly content (including open access journals and open access monographs and textbooks),…
« (…) This book provides an overview of the STI landscape in South Africa and succinctly outlines how the provision of RI has the potential to play a catalytic role in the advancement of STI endeavours. In addition, this book acts as a useful resource to ignite collaborative discussions and strengthen…
« One of Africa’s top research institutions responds to increasing smartphone ownership with new Boopsie mobile app
South Africa currently has the highest smartphone ownership of the countries on the African continent and sales of mobile devices in this region are expected to increase over the
« Access to information plays a critical role in supporting development. Open access to scientific information is one solution. Up to now, the open access movement has been most successful in the Western hemisphere. The demand for open access is great in the developing world as it can contribute to solving…
« South African electronic publication aggregator, Sabinet, has signed an agreement with Publishing Technology to launch an online platform on its packaged web solution, ingentaDrive.
The partnership means that Sabinet will now host its major journal service, the Sabinet African ePublications (SA ePublications), on ingentaDrive, an out-of-the-box…
« Le classement QS University Rankings: BRICS, qui compare les 200 plus grands établissements d’enseignement universitaire du Brésil, de la Russie, de l’Inde, de la Chine et de l’Afrique du Sud, désigne la Chine comme le pays le plus sujet à atteindre son objectif de développer des universités dont…
