1. Presented by Ansie van der Westhuizen Unisa Institutional Repository: Sharing knowledge to advance research http://uir.unisa.ac.za

3. Benefits for research and tuition  Visibility of Unisa scholars worldwide  Open Access to research information globally  More readers and more citations  Long term digital preservation  Self archiving of research outputs  Sharing of learning resources across institutions  Tool for peer reviewing  Agreements with publishers

4. Examples of items in UnisaIR

5. Who may submit material ? UNISA employees and postgraduate students on M/PhD-level may submit items to the repository.

6. Unisa IR workflow Submit Review Edit metadata Available on Unisa IR Prepare Research materials

7. General statistical overview

8. Views per college

9. Impact on online visibility Unisa IR Groenewald, ThomasA phenomenological research design illustrated. (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4(1), pp1-25 Full text views: 15527 Google Scholar A phenomenological research design illustrated T Groenewald - 2004 - uir.unisa.ac.za This article distills the core principles of a phenomenological research design and, by means of a specific study, illustrates the phenomenological methodology. After a brief overview of the developments of phenomenology, the research paradigm of the specific... Cited by Cited by 524 Related articles All 11 versionsRelated articlesAll 11 versions

12. ORCID (Researcher ID)

13. Dealing with copyright All items protected by copyright Various types /levels apply Not allowed to submit versions of articles downloaded from subscription based databases to UnisaIR unless open access Permission should be requested Sherpa ROMEO website for copyright regulations and self archiving policies

14. Pre-print, post-print, and published version of an article Published version The pre-print is the version of an article before peer reviewing The post-print is the peer-reviewed version that has been approved for publication in a journal

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16. What you should do … Submit a PDF version of peer-reviewed, post-print versions of your articles and published conference papers to the UnisaIR Give Unisa permission to make your articles freely available Retain your copyright

17. What the library will do … Assess the submission Adhere to the publishers regulations Manage embargoes Manage and preserve Provide online access Support and guidance

18. Open Access Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles.Internetpeer-reviewedscholarly journal Gold Open Access – publish in OA journals Green Open Access – OA repository e.g. UnisaIR

19. Open Access Publishers and other resources AOSIS OPENJOURNALS http://www.openjournals.net/ http://www.openjournals.net/ BioMed Central The Open Access Publisher http://www.biomedcentral.com/ http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Springer Open www.springeropen.com/www.springeropen.com/ BRILL Rights and Permissions http://www.brill.nl/rights-permissions http://www.brill.nl/rights-permissions Sabinet Open Journals Collection (Beta) (http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open- access-journals)http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open- access-journals Scielo South Africa Scientific Electronic Library Online (http://www.scielo.org.za/)http://www.scielo.org.za/ Sherpa ROMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/)http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ OASIS - Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (http://www.openoasis.org/)http://www.openoasis.org/ Semantico (http://www.semantico.com/technologies/publi shing-platform/)http://www.semantico.com/technologies/publi shing-platform/ Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ http://creativecommons.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ SHERPA/ROMEO http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ DHET Accredited lists

20. http://uir.unisa.ac.za Ansie van der Westhuizen watkiapj@unisa.ac.za