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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Denise

Last name: Nicholson

Organization/institution name: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Type of institution: Academic Institution

What's your position?: Librarian

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: Medium

What are your goals for OA Week?: Promote OA to academics
Promote our IR
Sensitize students to OA issues
Holding an OA seminar on 9 November 2012 where our institution will sign the Berlin Declaration on OA
Introducing an Author's Addendum for authors to retain rights to deposit in our institutional repository

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Open Access Week at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

As Open Access Week in October is not very convenient for our students and staff, due to examination time, our institution held our Open Access Week Seminar on 19 September 2017. You can see our programme and the presentations at: http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication/OAWeek…

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Posted on October 17, 2017 at 1:41am

Open Access - - South Africa

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will be holding two events to celebrate Open Access Week 2013:

1. PRESENTATION (23 OCTOBER 2013)

TOPIC: RAISING YOUR SCHOLARLY PROFILE: THE BENEFITS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

DATE : 23 OCTOBER 2013

TIME : 11.00 TO 12.00

VENUE: WITS MEDICAL…

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Posted on October 15, 2013 at 2:17am

Open Access Resources

To celebrate Open Access Week 2012, I would like to share with you my LibGuides as follows:-

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

http://libguides.wits.ac.za/openaccess_a2k_scholarly_communication

Open Educational Resources:

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Posted on October 20, 2012 at 8:00pm

Showcase your research on the Global Stage!

Wits academics are invited to contact Denise Nicholson at denise.nicholson@wits.ac.za to learn how to upload copies of their publications onto Wits Institutional Repository on DSpace (WIReDSpace) (http://ning.it/PFCy9g). Find out what your publishers' copyright policies in this regard are by checking SHERPA/ROMeO website at http://ning.it/QF6du0

For information…

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Posted on October 20, 2012 at 1:11am