NOPR (NISCAIR online periodical repository): NISCAIR initiatives
The development of technology has brought enormous opportunity to bring the results of research primarily to all through digital communication – anyone, anywher...
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How to Publish Linked Data on the Web
This document provides a tutorial on how to publish Linked Data on the Web. After a general overview of the concept of Linked Data, we describe several practica...
Getting your feet wet: An introduction to Open Access
This guide has been produced to give researchers, publishers, librarians and information professionals a basic understanding of the Open Access movement and whe...
Science Dissemination using Open Access
The book is a compendium of selected literature on Open Access, both on the technical and organizational levels, and was written in an effort to guide the scien...
Measuring the visibility of the University’s scientific production using GoogleScholar, “Publish or Perish” software and Scientometrics
Open access to scientific information through institutional digital repositories presents today’s world information environment and the transformations imposed ...
How to assess the impact of an electronic document? And what does impact mean anyway?: Reliable usage statistics in heterogeneous repository communities
Usually the impact of research and researchers is quantified by using citation data: either by journal-centered citation data as in the case of the journal impa...
Research productivity-visibility-accessibility and scholarly communication in Southern African universities
The project for the revitalisation of Southern Africa’s higher education sector is dependent on, among other things, the capacity of the region’s universities t...