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Open access to scholarly communication in South Africa occurs online via journals, repositories, and a variety of other tools and platforms. Compared to other African nations, open access in South Africa has grown quickly in recent years. According to Unesco, South Africa is a leading African country in terms of open access policies on the governmental level and grass-roots initiatives in universities and research organizations.[1]

As of April 2018, the international Directory of Open Access Journals records some 79 open access journals produced in South Africa.[2] As of January 2018, there are nine research entities with policies in the international Registry of Open Access Repositories.[3]

Journals

Many editorial boards of scholarly journals in South Africa have decided to publish in open access form, allowing readers to access articles for free, and also to freely reuse Open access icon the information. Typically, the intention is to foster further research, to advance scholarship and the production of knowledge, and to encourage reuse of research without the obstacle of costly access. Among the open access journals published in South Africa are the following titles:[2]

  • African Human Rights Law Journal (ISSN 1609-073X)[2]
  • African Invertebrates (ISSN 1681-5556, ISSN 2305-2562)[2]
  • Journal for the Study of Religion (ISSN 1011-7601, ISSN 2413-3027)[2]
  • Lexikos (ISSN 1684-4904, ISSN 2224-0039)[2]
  • South African Journal of Science (ISSN 0038-2353, ISSN 1996-7489)[2]
  • South African Medical Journal (ISSN 0256-9574, ISSN 2078-5135)[2]
  • Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies (ISSN 2072-8050)[2]
  • Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (ISSN 0041-476X, ISSN 2309-9070)[2]

Repositories

Institutional repositories provide online access to full text information and multimedia files. In general, open access is provided to the full text files linked to the entries. Institutional repositories emerged to address the challenge facing most organizations, namely the management of and access to the vast number of knowledge artifacts, ranging from journal articles, research reports, books, research papers, and conference papers to ad hoc explicit records in electronic formats. All of these require effective management, preservation, and curation for efficient retrieval to facilitate the sharing of scientific knowledge. One of the expectations of the international scientific and research community is to be able to monitor and share information among peers. Although organizations are expected and required to be able and willing to provide other bodies with the access required after they have implemented their own repository, it remains a voluntary service. It is however, required that international copyright laws are honored by the individual authors and the institutions implementing a repository service. Authorisation to include items should either be verified against the SHERPA/RoMEO list or else, obtained from the copyright holder.

South African research organizations and academic institutions have joined the global drive of making knowledge available in a free and open manner. The drive within South Africa is gaining momentum as more academic institutions and research organizations are starting to participate. In the spirit of cooperation and sharing, this list of repositories provides an entry point to the wealth of information located in South African Repositories.

As of March 2018, the UK-based Directory of Open Access Repositories lists the following in South Africa:[4]

Institution Repository name URL
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Scientific Electronic Library Online - South Africa (SciELO - South Africa) http://www.scielo.org.za/
Cape Peninsula University of Technology CPUT Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository http://etd.cput.ac.za/
Cape Peninsula University of Technology Digital Knowledge at Cape Peninsula University of Technology http://digitalknowledge.cput.ac.za/xmlui/
Central University of Technology CUT Institutional Repository http://ir.cut.ac.za/
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) CSIR Research Space http://researchspace.csir.co.za/dspace/
Durban University of Technology (DUT) DUT IR http://ir.dut.ac.za/
National Research Foundation of South Africa Heritage Repository http://digi.nrf.ac.za/dspace
National Research Foundation of South Africa South Africa Data Archive http://sada-data.nrf.ac.za/
North-West University North-West University Institutional Repository (Boloka) http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/
Rhodes University Rhodes eResearch Repository (ReRR) http://eprints.ru.ac.za/
SEALS Consortium SEALS Digital commons http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Index
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) OpenSALDRU http://opensaldru.uct.ac.za/
Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University SUNScholar Repository http://scholar.sun.ac.za/
Stellenbosch University SUNDigital Collections http://digital.lib.sun.ac.za/
Tshwane University of Technology TUT Digital Open Repository http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro
University of Cape Town OpenUCT http://open.uct.ac.za/
University of Cape Town UCT Computer Science Research Document Archive (UCT CS Archive) http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/
University of Fort Hare University of Fort Hare Institutional Repository http://ufh.netd.ac.za/
University of Johannesburg (UJ) University of Johannesburg Institutional Repository (UJ IR) https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Index
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) ResearchSpace@UKZN http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui
University of Limpopo University of Limpopo http://ul.netd.ac.za/
University of Pretoria (UP) University of Pretoria Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UPeTD) http://upetd.up.ac.za/UPeTD.htm
University of Pretoria (UP) UPSpace (UPSpace at the University of Pretoria) http://repository.up.ac.za/
University of South Africa (Unisa) UnisaIR (Unisa Institutional Repository) http://uir.unisa.ac.za/
University of the Free State KovsieScholar http://scholar.ufs.ac.za:8080/xmlui/
University of the Free State University of the Free State ETD http://etd.uovs.ac.za/
University of the Western Cape AHERO (African Higher Education Research Online) http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/
University of the Western Cape University of the Western Cape Research Repository (UWC Research Repository) http://repository.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/
University of the Western Cape UWC Theses and Dissertations http://etd.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg WIReDSpace (Wits Institutional Repository on DSPACE) http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/
University of Zululand UZSpace (University of Zululand Repository) http://uzspace.uzulu.ac.za/
Vaal University of Technology VUT DigiResearch http://vut.netd.ac.za/

See also

References

  1. ^ "South Africa". Global Open Access Portal. Unesco. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "(Search: Country of Publisher: South Africa)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK: Infrastructure Services for Open Access. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Browse by Country: South Africa". ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  4. ^ "South Africa". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Retrieved 28 March 2018.

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