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Ina Smith's Blog – October 2015 Archive (4)
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) articles published in celebration of OA Week 2015
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) celebrated Open Access Week 2015 through publishing three articles in The Conversation (Africa pilot). The…
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Here’s one way to recover and protect Africa’s ‘lost science’
Robin Crewe, University of Pretoria
It’s been 20 years since Wayt Gibbs introduced the phrase “lost science” to the world. Writing in…
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Why it's getting harder to access free, quality academic research
Leti Kleyn, University of Pretoria
Academics at South Africa’s universities increased their research output by 250% between 2000 and 2013. Taxpayers funded a great deal of that…
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Opening up access to research and information isn't a luxury – it's a necessity
Children struggle to learn when they don’t have science labs and libraries. Learning becomes difficult in classrooms that are falling apart, or where children are expected to sit on the floor because they have neither desks nor chairs.…
Added by Ina Smith on October 19, 2015 at 11:30pm — No Comments
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- An African Open Science Platform initiative - Invitation to a series of webinars on "Incentives for sharing research data" 25, 26 and 27 October 2017 (Open Access Week)
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- Why it's getting harder to access free, quality academic research
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